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AARP offers tech ed for real newbies who buy the AARP Realpad.

AARP uses Indeed's data base for job searches

14 minute AARP TEK Talk video of Ivy Portwood speaking to mobile wi-fi giving words to know, what a mobile hotspot is, benefits, how to connect. Netgear is the technology.

AARP's Reimagined Life Methodology--reflect, conect, explore, choose, repack, and act. Note the beliefs underwriting the methodology.

This page on learning from Life Reimagined is basically a handoff to organizations such as Coursera, iTunesU, Skillshare, and Unstuck app for people to learn online without tools they need to succeed. It is the least well developed of the Life Reimagined pages IMO.

Learning about coding by Cale Guthrie Weissman, 4.5.13, apndodaily, found by following links from AARP Life Reimagined to LinkedIn blog post to this site.

Ronni Bennett's blog on As Time Goes By explores how all the automatic devices on sites from NYT and AARP and Daily Kos that involve popups, slide down covers, and sound are disrupting our concentration and brain health, and how the disruptions on these sites are creating longer-lasting interruptions in our ability to concentrate and think. September 10, 2014

video (17 minutes) of Gary Jones, co-author of "My iPad for Seniors" to use the tablet to "travel the world, cook an awesome meal, listen to your favorite music, read a bestseller, or have a face-to-face conversation with your grandchild. Values the freedom that comes with it--cites learning how to ride a bike, obtaining a driver's license with getting an iPad.

Good article on rebalancing power/responsibility between incoming CEO and board after long-time CEO departs. Cites Chris McEntee who worked at AARP with me 30 years ago before she left for work in a health association. Interesting, I checked her LinkedIn profile and she does not list any employment prior to the 1990s. But it's clearly the same woman I worked with.

Interesting blog post bu Elizabeth MacBride, April 5, 2013, on virtual partnerships, 5 secrets 1. must have the same agenda 2. you actually like the person 3. complementary skill sets or traits 4. open lines of communications 5. good legal underpinnings Excerpt "Our number-one rule - and the glue that holds our partnership together - is keeping the workload manageable. We don't take on too many clients, and we don't hold ourselves to unrealistic standards for production. "Our business is focused on helping people navigate a big, ongoing trend-the shift from traditional jobs to an economy built around freelance, contract and temporary work. Pulling all-nighters at the business and cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world, as we might at a venture-capital backed startup, doesn't seem like the right way for us," Pofeldt says. "Why not enjoy one of the best parts of freelancing: the freedom to have an active life outside of work without apologizing for it?" Barry "CB" Martin and Larry Gaian are food writers and marketers-for-hire who met via their common networks. "This year I started several new ventures," Martin wrote via email. "I asked him to be a sounding board. On one of the ideas, he was thinking along the same lines so we decided to combine forces." They're working together under the moniker Guys In Aprons, asking food companies to hire them to write recipe posts and interview expert chefs."