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Why is smartphone addiction on the rise, and are you being affected?

Open Access Government - Technology News

In a 2014 review of internet addiction, the authors considered how internet addiction affects our daily lives. This can mean saying no to social engagements and missing out on friends and family interactions. Fear of being without your smartphone even has a name – this is known as nomophobia – which stands for NO MObile PHone PhoBIA.

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CFP: New “ITAL &” column in Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL)

A Library Writer's Blog

General technology review : Looking back at the ten-year range, what are the major changes or improvements in library technologies that have occurred since 2014? Since this is a non-peer-reviewed column, there is also an opportunity to engage in new ways or different formats, so creative submissions will also be considered.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In other cases, they’re created directly by elected and administrative officials of government organizations, operating as an extension of government agencies yet they engage in fundraising, soliciting private contributions from willing citizen donors. Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development? Journal of Urban Affairs , 34 (1): 65-80.

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Three Ways Agencies Can Drive Measurable Results Across the Organization 

Government Technology Insider

Organizations can track trends over time using Excel spreadsheets or even facilitate “turn the curve thinking” with a Word document or a flip chart in front of a group. Though it’s possible to implement RBA without specialized software tools, it can make the process much more challenging.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Alternatives to 'community engagement in DRR' do exist:-Organised voluntarism can be incorporated into the official civil protection system. Hence, 'community' is about influence. Banfield, E.C.

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How Community Partners and Local Governments Collaborate to Address Heirs’ Property

Center for Community Progress

Even if a will exists, there still usually needs to be some action taken to document the transfer from the deceased family member to the appropriate heirs. At the Center for Community Progress, we’ve engaged with heirs’ property issues for years. As time goes by, these unresolved property issues become more complex.

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Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

BPBI Project Update to Priorities Committee - September 16, 2014 When complete in 2015/16, these processes will simplify and strengthen business planning and budgeting at Strathcona County, providing focus and direction to all of the County’s activities. This new article below ( Can priority-based budgeting do the job? )