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How to Volunteer Abroad (and Great Organizations to Explore)

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These include booking flights, getting visas and vaccinations (as needed), procuring travel insurance (check if it’s provided through the program first), enabling an international plan with your cellphone and packing. After you apply successfully, some programs may have orientation and training before the trip (or once you arrive).

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We Reviewed FlexiSpot’s Pro Plus Standing Desk (E7)

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Ergonomic furniture company FlexiSpot sent us their ProPlus Standing Desk to review. . Four features we reviewed: . This is important to know because Sheya plans to install a printer and a monitor on top of the desk (in addition to a few books at hand). The online reviews for the E7 are extremely positive. The Review.

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Review of Gretchen Rubin’s new book

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Gretchen’s new book is called Outer Order, Inner Calm and it came out last Friday. The subtitle is “declutter and organize to make more room for happiness.” In fact, a lot of the ideas in this book are ones I use with my clients and ones I put in my own book, 52 Simple Ways to Get Organized. Right up my alley!

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Book Review: The Future of Work

Small Business Labs

I'm more than a bit behind on my book reviews, which is why it's taken me so long to get to Jacob Morgan's excellent book, The Future of Work. The book begins by covering "The Five Trends Shaping the World of Work", which are major megatrends impacting business, society and, of course, work. 

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Book Review: With Charity for All

Small Business Labs

Charity for All: Why Charities are Failing and a Better Way to Give is a fascinating book.   As we've described in the past , the non-profit/charity sector is primarily made up of small organizations. According to the book, there are about 1.4 million You may ask why I'm reviewing this book.

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Book Review: The Sharing Economy by Arun Sundararajan

Small Business Labs

We follow Sundararajan's work closely and consider him one the top experts in this field, so were excited to get a copy of his new book. The book nicely covers the topics of trust and regulation as they relate to the sharing economy. We weren't disappointed. The chapter on blockchain is especially well done.

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Book Review: The Manufacturer's Book of Lists

Small Business Labs

Because there are so many new and small manufacturing firms, I was very excited to read the  The Manufacturer's Book of Lists  by small business expert Gene Marks.   Also, because the book is organized in lists by functional area you can go directly to issues you are struggling with. .

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