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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

ePortfolios for Learning - 0 views

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    Helen Barrett's home page on eportfolios for learning. She includes a keynote address she did on portfolios for an educators group in Hamilton, NZ in February 2015. Lots of excellent individual slides on lifelong learning and how the portfolio is a laboratory for prompting and documenting learning.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Improve Workplace Learning From A to Z - e-Learning Feeds - 0 views

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    very nice infograph on workplace learning
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Dianne Harman: Reinvention - 0 views

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    Post by Dianne Harman, Huff Post, June 6, 2013 on reinvention. Like this conclusion: Every time you reinvent yourself, you're forced to learn something new. And a mind that's engaged in learning is a young mind. So what's your reinvention story?
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

https://sites.udel.edu/osherdover/files/2016/02/CPP-01-Civic-Engagement-and-Lifelong-Le... - 0 views

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    shows how civic engagement and desire for lifelong learning by boomers complement each other, Winter 2006-2007.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Personal Development Shouldn't Stop After 60! Use These Tools to Network or Start a Bus... - 0 views

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    Margaret Manning's video interview with John Tarnow on digital tools to use for networking and starting businesses. (17 minutes) shocked at # of people who do not have photos on social media profile including LinkedIn "Transparency is new privacy" "Linkedin is great tool for our generation, Facebook more social, need to fill in LinkedIn profiles to give employers/clients sense of compatibility, affinities" It is also connecting to people they know. How important is blogging? A-It's a process to find what your point of view is. Part of reinvention process is figuring out what we have to say, that others can learn from. Manning did a list of 60 things for younger women to know Being of service to community is key. Subscribe to news feeds, Google alerts on handful of topics that relate to this interest. Go to website, comment, engage with other people to develop your voice, your brand. Purpose of networking--to have fun, to link up with others, looking to start a business--great opportunities on Linkedin, search tools. Act locally, think globally. Define product and market--same old skills we have used forever. only difference today is scale. Twitter is way of getting message out, supporting brand. Outward platform. Social mindset is needed for starting businesses. Live in a sharing economy--software, business development, etc.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

What Older Workers Want, But Aren't Getting - Next Avenue - 0 views

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    very interesting article by Richard Eisenberg quoting head of Sloan Center on Aging at Boston College on older workers wanting to work in workplaces where positive, helping relationships are the norm, doing meaningful work. While older workers want opportunities to learn, they are not valued in same way as younger workers building career opportunities for themselves with new skills/knowledge.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

2015 Influencers in Aging - Next Avenue - 0 views

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    amazing list of 50 influencers bringing about change in health and well-being, work & purpose, caregiving, living & learning, etc. as we age past 50
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • concluding that noncognitive skills like character, dependability and perseverance are as important as cognitive achievement. They can be taught, he said, yet American schools don’t necessarily do so.
  • They assumed it would be technical expertise. Instead, it was people who made time for one-on-one meetings, helped employees work through problems and took an interest in their lives.
  • The extent to which jobs required social skills grew 24 percent between 1980 and 2012, he found, while jobs requiring repetitive tasks, like garbage collecting, and analytical tasks that don’t necessarily involve teamwork, like engineering, declined.
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  • many business and medical schools, students are assigned to small groups to complete their work. So-called flipped classrooms assign video lectures before class and reserve class for discussion or group work. The idea is that traditional lectures involve too little interaction and can be done just as well online.
  • whether they “play well with others.”
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    need for social skills in work that will be here in future according to Claire Cain Miller, October 16, 2015, NYTimes
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The 10 Pillars To Creating a Compelling Digital Resume | Jeff Bullas | LinkedIn - 0 views

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    Jeff Bullas offers ten tips on creating your virtual resume
Lisa Levinson

http://www.thefutureorganization.com/over-50-ebook - 0 views

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    Free Ebook from Jacob Morgan: 5 Ways People Over 50 Can Stay Relevant. How Older Workers Can Embrace the Coming Changes and Stay Relevant in the Future of Work. Has info on what does the future of work look like for the 50+ population; The 5 key trends shaping the future of work; Why you need to embrace the coming changes; The 5 ways older workers can embrace these changes and stay relevant in the changing world of work; Specific actions that you can take to help future-proof your career.
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    Free Ebook from Jacob Morgan: 5 Ways People Over 50 Can Stay Relevant. How Older Workers Can Embrace the Coming Changes and Stay Relevant in the Future of Work. Has info on what does the future of work look like for the 50+ population; The 5 key trends shaping the future of work; Why you need to embrace the coming changes; The 5 ways older workers can embrace these changes and stay relevant in the changing world of work; Specific actions that you can take to help future-proof your career.
Lisa Levinson

How to Create a Perfect LinkedIn Profile Infographic - e-Learning Infographics - 0 views

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    Resource from one of the Jane Hart participants about infographic profiles. Good resource, easy to follow, clear.
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    Resource from one of the Jane Hart participants about infographic profiles. Good resource, easy to follow, clear.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships: A New Framework | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views

  • potential for quickly scaling solutions
  • four types of private-sector stakeholders who are involved in securing partnerships.
  • Each has access to different resources, and therefore a different role
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  • The economic buyer.
  • The user buyer.
  • The technical buyer.
  • The coach
  • The third challenge is how to speak to businesses so that they respond. Here are five principles for engaging businesses: Speak as partner, not supplicant. Offer legitimate solutions to tough business challenges such as value propositions. Focus on how you will address their needs first. Know their numbers. Know the industry, the business, and your own assets.
  • social sector groups speaking to businesses in terms of the nonprofits’ own missions was a major barrier.
  • we coached everyone to focus on addressing the needs of the businesses themselves and on framing the partnership as a value proposition.
  • Workforce development nonprofits can provide a talent pipeline of workers
  • This framing as a value-add partnership,
  • The Prepare Learning Circle, for example, is a group of five cradle-to-career collective impact partnerships that are explicitly focused on exploring what successful collaboration looks like in the context of workforce development and employment.
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    Very good article by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson, on how nonprofits can best approach partnerships with forprofit corporations, October 16, 2015.  Ideas for internships, employment pipeline, etc. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Generations on Line - 0 views

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    great organization that gets seniors online
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