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• How to transition from a print hub to a digital hub

  Mark MacDonald Religious Community

  The church has notoriously created a bulletin (or worship guide) that is the collection of anything important to the congregation. It may have the order of service, scripture that will be discussed in service, obituaries, offering totals, upcoming events, flyers, stories, sermon notes and many other things. All is well, except most people don’t read it. Every church needs to consider switching from a print hub to a digital hub where all communication revolves around the website. Here are the seven steps to make the switch.

• Protecting the board

  Robert C. Harris Association Management

  "What could go wrong? I’m just a volunteer on a board of directors." It’s better to ask about risks and protections before accepting a nomination to serve. Directors are trustees of the corporation. They are responsible for governance and the well-being of the organization. Although organizations are characterized as "nonprofit" and directors are "volunteers," liabilities do arise. Consider Murphy’s Law: "If anything can go wrong, it will."

• Long ER waits in California prompt patients to leave against medical advice

  Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

  The number of patients leaving California emergency departments against medical advice (AMA) has increased by 57% since 2012. Not all the patients who left after seeing a doctor but before treatment had been rendered can be attributed to long wait times, but hospital administrators say most are due to overcrowded EDs. "Most patients are sick but not critically ill," said Dr. Steven Polevoi, medical director of the ED at UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. "Emergency care doesn’t equal fast care all of the time."

• Circus arts: Building more than a spectacular show

  Sheilamary Koch Sports & Fitness

  Dramatic music and theatrical lighting set the mood as three silvery, besparkled, nymph-like creatures move their limbs, twist, twirl and drop in perfectly timed synchronicity suspended in the air above you. You could easily be at Cirque de Soleil in Las Vegas or Cancun. Yet when the performers glide off the trapeze and step before the audience to take a bow, you notice their proud, shining young faces — they’re children! Actually, you have just witnessed a number in the annual fundraising show for Circo de los Niños in the small Mexican village of San Pancho.

• Do you have a ‘Real ID’ yet?

  Dave G. Houser Recreation & Leisure

  Enacted in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, a federal law called the Real ID Act was passed by Congress in 2005. It established minimum security standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards. It has taken the federal government 15 years now to implement the act fully — a gradual process that has been met by some confusion and foot-dragging as each of the 50 states has approached the process in its own way. However, all states need to be in compliance by Oct. 1, 2020. The act could present a dilemma for full-time RVers — and here’s why.

• Study: 5 tips to create top-performing videos for Facebook

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  Did you know that Facebook announced last year that its algorithm would no longer, by nature, prioritize video in its News Feed? While some thought that change would dethrone videos as the No. 1 type of content on Facebook, they were wrong. A BuzzSumo analysis found that videos continued to get 59% more engagement than any other content type. Because Facebook’s algorithm prioritizes content that gets engagement, video still gets shown more than other content. This article features five tips from a new Socialinsider study that analyzed over 9 million Facebook videos to find the keys to video success.

• Enjoy these lesser-known national parks

  Cindy Belt Recreation & Leisure

  We constantly hear about record attendance at our national parks. This is great, since it means more people are enjoying the outdoors. But it is difficult to really enjoy a park that is full of people with long lines for everything, including hiking trails. There were 81 parks with over 1,000,000 visits in 2017. Instead of these popular parks, I enjoy visiting the lesser-known national parks where I can still get some privacy and enjoy the peace and quiet. Here are some of my favorites with both historical significance and/or great hiking.

• How to beat a losing streak

  Brenda Crist Civil & Government

  Proposal professionals are some of the hardest working people in any company. Despite their hard work, they may face a losing streak from time to time. These losses can erode their confidence, adversely affect working relationships, and even trigger job-hopping. Everyone faces losses at one time or another. For example, Steve Jobs is considered one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our generation, yet he prevailed despite numerous losses. If you find rebounding from a string of losses difficult, consider these five tips.

• The needless struggles of struggling readers: Progress monitoring

  Howard Margolis Education

  In my many decades of critiquing special education evaluations, IEPs, and progress reports from various New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware schools, and in speaking to innumerable parents, teachers and other IEP team members, I’ve gained an overwhelming impression: Little, if any, valid progress monitoring occurs. Instead, many special education teachers and case managers rely primarily on their subjective memories to judge their students’ progress.

• The lives of language

  Debra Josephson Abrams Education

  When I was in Russia teaching English language pedagogy, research and writing skills, and American conversational rituals to graduate TESOL students, I adapted 20 Questions by adding a component, 20 Words. While I was pleased with the lesson and students’ engagement, I was eager to develop it. I had the opportunity when I taught university Short Composition students in South Korea. The students, most of whom were Korean but a couple of whom were Mongolian, all had high levels of English language skills and were already keen thinkers, and a number were polyglots; therefore, I wanted to robustly challenge them.

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