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nice article on why women lose ambition from toxic environments and never fully recover, Shelly Darnutzer, March 9, 2016, LinkedIn Pulse via Twitter

Linkedin/Pulse article by Cristina Chis, training consultant at Krauthammer on why online learning works for introverts. describes her routines for learning that are single-minded, relating to new content/ideas, not people interactions.

Arun Pradhan asks four great questions about learning in real life. is developing an app that might be worth looking at.

good essay by Sallie Krawcheck on changing careers, leadership traits, getting in the traffic to understand the industry you are moving into, etc.

blog post by Marc Miller, November 5, 2014, on how LinkedIn Publisher Post expands the number of viewers for blog posts. One of his blog posts published on LinkedIn was picked up and used by LinkedIn Pulse Channel Careers Next Level which generated 14,000 views and drove a lot of traffic to his website.

interesting look at doing away with our reliance on email

like this assessment of value of gap year by Abby Falik

article by Shelly Darnutzer on how to overcome internal oppression that often started with external oppression, April 2016

From Arun Pradhan on LinkedIn based on the work of Jane Hart, Harold Jarche, and others. Explores the why and how of work and learning, and bursting the training bubble that positions learning as a separate event from the workflow.

Jeff Bullas offers ten tips on creating your virtual resume

nice summary slide program on what AND men can do to help foster equality in the workplace

study by Jane McConnell, Digital Workplace advisor and researcher. In the comments section by Rachel Happe, principal and co-founder of the Community Roundtable. "Awesome and congratulations on getting this out Jane. A must read for everyone in our extended network. In my area, community management, your assessment is spot on. We have long held that 1) community management is the future of all management 2) community management is like teaching - everyone does it and some people do it professionally and 3) it's a critical 21st century skill. Thank you for "

good resource on hiring interviews--how to collect evidence that will yield a good hiring decision -- Lou Adler, LinkedIn

In this blog post, John Hagel "lifts" from a much larger report, what platforms are, the three types (aggregation that is mainly short-term, transaction based; social for building long-term relationships and meshing of relationship networks to foster diversity of connections, and mobilization--those that move people to act together to accomplish something, ex. supply network, Linux in open source, and social movements such as Arab Spring), and how a fourth one--the "learning platform" is the aspiration of business ecosystems everywhere. Platforms do not mean apps. Platforms offer governance protocols and structure for determine who belongs and who doesn't. They also facilitate coordination, collaboration, and connection.

article by Karen Cator, former IT director of DoE in DC, now with Digital Promise, on future of ed tech

Really a wonderful summation of how curiosity leads to creativity--interview with Elizabeth Gilbert by Melissa Dahl, September 23, 2015

interesting look by Karen Sands on boomers' reasons for retiring/launching third and fourth "ages"

good questions to ask ourselves

very interesting speculation about Uber's eventual move toward self-driven/robotic cars and what this means for automation of work elsewhere.

article by Suki Tranqille on intentional solitude--the need to think to make sense of things