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Fascinating article on Baylor research on how internal social networking sites supported and managed within the workplace helps newcomers (younger people usually) to connect and learn from each other, interact directly with more senior people, and inadvertently cause problems for middle managers who did not want to mentor new hires and who did not necessarily have the social/technology proficiencies to participate in the SNS, Science Daily, 1/29/2013. Their conclusions showed that a "company can improve morale and reduce turnover." Researchers are Hope Koch, Baylor, Dorothy Leidner, Ph.D., Ferguson Professor of Information Systems at Baylor; and Ester Gonzalez from Washington State University. Excerpt: he study centered on a financial institution's efforts to reduce IT employee turnover by starting a social and work-related online networking site. Under the supervision of executives, the IT new hires developed and managed the site's content. Since most new hires had moved hundreds of miles to start their new jobs with the institution, they initially used the social pages as an introduction to the community. After a year or so with the organization, the more senior new hires began using the system to acclimate and mentor incoming new hires. All study respondents worked in the institution's IT department and included new hires, middle managers and executives. With less than three years of experience, most new hires and interns were men between 21 and 27 years old. The middle managers and executives were baby boomers or members of generation X. The internal social networking site helped the new hires build social capital in several ways, according to Koch. "It gave them access to people who could provide useful information and new perspectives and allowed them to meet more senior new hires and executives. These relationships set the new hires at ease during work meetings, helped them understand where to go for help and increased their commitment to the financial

Experience Matters Arizona has interesting self discovery exercise and graphic to complete on Ideas, Motivations, Skills and Interests, Dreams, Financial Insights, and Values.

Interesting article in the NYTimes magazine, August 7, 2013, on choices made by high-powered, elite credentialed working mothers to leave the workforce to become full-time mothers for extended periods (10+ years) and the consequences for their marriage relationships, financial standing, and re-entry options for returning to work. Bottom line: every decision yields both good and unanticipated impacts, new opportunities, and closed doors especially when the decision to depart is made prior to a recession, and the decision to re-enter workforce occurs after recession.

An interesting infographic on female millennials and their views of diversity, role model gap, work-life strategy, global careers, new era of talent, career confident, feedback culture, financially empowered.

This woman, Shellie Riley, advertises concierge servicees that consist of consulting, coaching, placement, FAQs, Pro bono financial aid, and contact us. A www.nerdconcierge.net service is advertised to start Spring 2013 but does not look active yet. Excerpt: "Our EDUCATIONAL CONCIERGE SERVICE packages comprehensive and customized support to families navigating any and all educational queries, concerns, choices and decisions from Pre-School to Post-Secondary learning. "

blog post by Quentin Hardy, NYT, on how new companies developing algorithms are using them to loan money to people who are better risks than their financial circumstances might suggest, track high performers in sales jobs to find the indicators of their success for export and use by other employees, etc. July 26, 2015

how they are microseconds ahead to make financial moves. Talk by Kevin Slavin, How Algorithms Shape Our World.

Precious response on pursuing something that isn't yielding financial success, visibility, appreciation, etc. We wake up very early in the morning, before the sun comes up, and we say to the world: I AM OLD AND I AM A NOBODY AND I LOVE WHAT I DO. You will be just like me someday. If you're lucky.

Employer directed (and financially supported) and self-directed online learning in the workplace, Wired Campus, June 2, 2015

helps define project-based employees, Sam Ashe-Edmunds

Article by Jena McGregor, Washington Post, on HP and other big companies moving to virtual or hybrid meetings to lower cost, expand participation, etc. March 17, 2015

The author David Bach argues that business schools need to go in a different direction - more like liberal arts. Frame problems and get out of the way. "When people hear liberal arts, they - mistakenly - think of content, of literature, history or philosophy. They think of curricula without structure, of students mixing and matching courses from the arts and sciences without plan or direction. But liberal arts education is something more. "It's a way of looking at the world, a mode of inquiry. It is what Albert Einstein called "the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.""

very interesting article on morality of linking to platforms or articles that might engage in racist or certain harassment behaviors and when to not link anymore

Starbucks has started a college assistance program for its staff members to earn four year college degrees, ONLINE, through Arizona State University. ASU has dedicated Pretty neat if it works as described.

beautiful success story of how no-kill animal shelters got a big boost with networking approaches, uniform data collection, and creation of new medical specialty--shelter veterinary medicine.