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How going digital can make business events more valuable

Practically Perfect PA

Using an interactive screen to display live social media feeds such as a Twitter Wall is a great way of merging the offline and online worlds. It is estimated that the augmented reality market will be worth more than £1 billion by 2019. It would generally state a professional’s name, job title, phone number and email address.

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The four day week and a case of less is more

Workplace Insight

When a pilot programme for a four day week was announced in the UK early in the New Year, #4dayweek trended for days on twitter, with jokey comments on how employees taking part in the trial should do everything not to ‘f it up for the rest of us.’ But behind the humour there’s a real issue with productivity in the UK. Global trials.

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Episode 243: The Art of Noticing with Rob Walker

Productivityist

His book The Art of Noticing (Knopf) comes out in May 2019. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. He writes the Human Resource column for Lifehacker, and has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, TheNewYorker.Com, Design Observer, The Organist, and many others.

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An Interview with the Office Dynamics Team

Office Dynamics

I saw it during the welcome reception, all day during the trainings, and as we finished, the admins were sharing emails, phone numbers, and business/personal cards to keep in touch. Melia: I am on the phone and helping people and groups all year by answering questions, helping with registration, assisting with hotel information, etc.

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Virtual Reality Platform Innerworld Offers a Safe Space for Peer-Led Mental Health Support

Success

When users sign up for Innerworld, which is free for the basic version and works on phones, computers and VR headsets, they are given a tutorial that informs them the platform does not provide therapy or crisis intervention. “We can teach patients evidence-based tools they can take from their therapy sessions and use in their everyday lives.”

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The planet clearly needs help. So what can you do? Demand change

Ideas.Ted

I have witnessed people suffering and dying since I was a child,” the 18-year-old from Pakistan told me over the phone. Even if the world meets its most ambitious climate targets, one-third of the Himalayan glaciers will melt by the end of the century, a 2019 International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development report found.