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Specialists address growing geriatrics' workload
12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, July 25, 2010
By MELISSA REPKO / The Dallas Morning News
mrepko@dallasnews.com
The fee cut his workload significantly, but Cary isn't complaining. From his perspective, he traded quantity for quality.
"It brings back more day-to-day pleasure to doing medicine," he said. Now he can give the lengthier exams his aging patients often need or call pharmacists or specialists on their behalf.
Continue ReadingLaura Hockaday: Kansas City Star Legends
What: Former Kansas City Star editor Laura Hockaday shares historical and personal anecdotes attributed to two Star legends, founder and publisher William Rockhill Nelson and founder of The Star’s women’s news department Nell Snead
When: Sunday, August 15, at 2 p.m.
Where: Kansas City Public Library--Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
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Eight Key Sites to Inspire Your Encore Career
Copyright (c) 2009 Lin Schreiber
Whether you want to (or have to) continue working, or you’re set financially and eager to donate your time, wisdom, experience and resources to a cause that you find worthy, don’t waste this opportunity to create your ideal encore career. Here are my picks for the top eight websites where you’ll find information and inspiration (not listed in any particular order):
1. Encore Careers: http://www.encore.org/ Not interested in endless years of leisure? Want to resurrect your youthful idealism and put it to work for the greater good? Is having an income still an important part of your financial picture?
Continue ReadingRetirement: Are You Ready?
A new study says no. Here's how to prepare
By: Jonathan Pond | from: AARP | July 20, 2010
A new report on how well prepared Americans are for retirement contains some encouraging news: Workers' prospects have improved somewhat since 2003, the year of the original forecast. Innovations in retirement-savings features such as auto-enrollment in 401(k)s have helped.
Don't break out the champagne just yet, however. The Retirement Readiness report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute finds that nearly half of boomers ages 56 to 62 are still at risk of not having enough retirement income to pay for basic expenses and uninsured health care costs.
Continue ReadingCreative Ways for Charities to Use Twitter
A recent Social Philanthropy post noted a North Carolina charity that created a "Twitter Table" at an annual fund-raising dinner as a way to use the social network to prompt donors who were not at the dinner to give.
The post has since inspired Gail Hyman, a fund-raising consultant, to think about creative ways for other nonprofit organizations to use Twitter to raise donations and draw attention to their causes.
She offers several suggestions on the blog eJewish Philanthropy.
One idea is for summer camps to organize a "Summer Camp Scholarship Tweet Out" in which Twitter-savvy parents are gathered to raise money to make camp more affordable to those in need.
Another is a "Rosh Hashana Recipe Tweet Up" — an event Ms. Hyman writes would be a "promotional campaign to get the best 140-character holiday recipe file." The effort would link to a full recipe area on an organization's Web site.
Finally, she offers an idea for a campaign aimed at helping groups gain more followers on Twitter.
"Give priority seating to your cadre of Twitter supporters at your next event and encourage them to tweet the proceedings; announce a new campaign; identify 10 new followers for your organization," Ms. Hyman writes.
What are some other creative ways for nonprofit organizations to use Twitter to increase philanthropy? We'd love to collect a master list.
Guest Post: How a Charity's Use of Social Media Advanced Its Good Works
Can effective social-media efforts help a charity better accomplish its mission?
For KaBoom, a charity that builds playgrounds, the answer is clearly yes.
The organization has been growing quickly, thanks largely to a well-coordinated social-media effort that gives supporters of its cause the ability to organize themselves online and work together to build playgrounds in their communities.
The Monitor Institute, in San Francisco, recently released a report that explores KaBoom's social-media strategy and offers recommendations to other organizations that are looking to organize supporters online.
Continue ReadingWhat Does Foursquare Have to Do with Nonprofits?
By Joanna Eng.
Foursquare is a web and mobile application that allows its users to share where they are—down to the specific building, park, business, etc.—with their friends. Users earn points and badges for locations that they frequent, and can even become the Foursquare Mayor if they have "checked in" to that spot the most. For many users, it's like a game (or scavenger hunt?) that helps them explore their city.
Continue ReadingMr. Encore Careers Goes to Washington
Posted 07/15/2010 - 9:04am by Terry Nagel
Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, made the case for encore careers today, testifying before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee during a hearing entitled, “Choosing to Work During Retirement and the Impact on Social Security.”
Read David Bank’s tweets from the hearing on Twitter: @davidbank
See a video of the hearing and read the official testimony.
Continue ReadingApple iPad Field Test: Does It Have Senior Appeal?
The iPad has been getting a lot of attention since it was released earlier this month, but does Apple’s latest offering appeal to every generation?
We visited the Greenspring retirement community in Springfield, Va., to see what residents there think of the iPad.
Margaret Anderson, 70, travels a lot with her BlackBerry and thought the iPad might allow her to do more. She travels and takes a lot of pictures and e-mails with her BlackBerry, but she rarely uses it to make phone calls.
Coffee, Tea? Yes, Please
Common beverages may lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, cancer
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