National Day of Unplugging

National Day Of Unplugging: Can You Spend 24 Hours Offline?

Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 05.23.2012

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What would it be like to go a day without the Internet? Would we wither under the force of our own tech-induced ADD?

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Tonight's Challenge: Can You 'Unplug' For A Day?

The Huffington Post | Sarah H. Lee | Posted 03.26.2012

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This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: This week's Family Table Talk is also a challenge. Can you -- every...

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'I Feel Like A Better Mother On Saturdays': How A Weekly Digital Detox Changed My Life

Tiffany Shlain | Posted 05.23.2012

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I have been unplugging weekly for the past year for what my family calls our "technology shabbats," and it has truly changed my life. I feel like a better mother, wife, person on Saturdays.

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National Day Of Unplugging: It's Time To Recharge Your Spirit

Posted 03.24.2012

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As you're reading this article, you might also be Tweeting about your less-than-mediocre visit to the dentist and liking a photo of your friend on Fac...

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Can You Unplug for 24 Hours?

Heidi Sinclair | Posted 05.22.2012

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By letting technology into our lives in an unbounded fashion, we are not only losing the art of conversation, we are losing our emotional lives. The answer is putting the technology in its place. It is time for all of us to unplug for one day.

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Thou Shall Unplug: A National Day of Tech Detox, Nurturing And Community

Rabbi Yonah Bookstein | Posted 05.21.2012

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While Sabbath observance is often dismissed as archaic, attitudes are changing as the pace of information and methods of delivery are unrelenting.

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The Elimination Of Busy: The Spiritual Discipline Of Being Present

Lynn Casteel Harper | Posted 05.25.2011

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While I am not advocating that we forsake obligations and wipe clean our calendars, I am searching for more meaningful ways to frame our activity in the world.

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Why I'm Not Observing National Day of Unplugging

Larry Magid | Posted 05.25.2011

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On this day, people across America are supposed to "reclaim time, slow down their lives and reconnect with friends, family, the community and themselves." Forget it.

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National Day Of Unplugging: Take A Tech Break This Weekend

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011

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We at HuffPost Living are always looking for ways to help you de-stress, relax and get your life back under control. That's why we'd like to encourage...

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Unplug And Recharge: 14 Ways To Combat Corporatitis

Dr. Frank Lipman | Posted 11.17.2011

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The question then becomes, then, "How do we combat corporatitis -- short of moving to a hut in Tibet?" I suggest taking the integrative approach and battle the corporatitis beast on both the emotional and physical fronts.

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Missed Connection: Take a Digital Detox

Tanya Schevitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bucking the trend of technology that allows people to tell everyone that they've checked into their local restaurant, café or bar, the creators of the National Day of Unplugging have developed a smartphone app that helps users "check out".

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Unplug And Recharge: Are You Living In A Techno-Daze?

Ronit Herzfeld | Posted 11.17.2011

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How is technology affecting your relationships? Do you think you could turn off, unplug, and see the difference it makes?

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Rachel Sklar Finds Absence Makes Her Fonder of Blackberry

Tanya Schevitz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Rachel Sklar, editor-at-large at Mediaite, was the most recent person to take our Sabbath Manifesto "Unplug Challenge," connecting to life without technology for 24 hours during a weekend in May.

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Power Down To Connect

Tanya Schevitz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Once a month, an "A-lister" will unplug from cell phones and PDAs, power down computers and tune in to the world. After the 24 hours, the A-lister will report on the experience right here in the Huffington Post.

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Joel Stein Gets "Off the Grid" in Time

Tanya Schevitz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Time magazine columnist Joel Stein was the first person to take our Sabbath Manifesto "Unplug Challenge," going "off the grid" for 24 hours last weekend.

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REBOOT: Disconnect to Connect on National Day of Unplugging

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

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The more hours we spend plugged in, without real renewal, the more we begin to default reflexively into behaviors that reduce our effectiveness and take a pernicious toll on others.

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National Day of Unplugging March 19, Sunset to Sunset March 20 (VIDEO)

Tiffany Shlain | Posted 11.17.2011

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Shabbat is a very old idea -- 5000 years old. And people have been talking about "technology shabbats" for a while ... but perhaps today, we. Really. Need. An. Intervention.

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Status Updating the Mudbath

Christopher Noxon | Posted 05.25.2011

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This Friday I will join friends in the Jewish nonprofit Reboot in a National Day of Unplugging. No phones, no computers, no TV, no iPhone, no TV. For 24 hours.

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Join the National Day of Unplugging

Tanya Schevitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you walk around with ear-buds shielding you all day; if you panic when you can't get cell phone reception; if you tweet or post status updates constantly, you need to join the National Day of Unplugging.

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