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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Paying Dues at Work or Investing in the Future? - Break The Frame - 0 views

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    Love this post by Alli Polin, July 29, 2014. She/he? asks three questions about our personal leadership: 1. How am I showing up? 2. How am I engaging (through human connections?)? 3. How am I changing? (You can choose to stand still or bravely and boldly meet your future. It's coming either way. Leaders that not only accept change, but invite it, have vision, courage, and a commitment to growth.)
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Opinion piece by Daniel J. Levitin, August 9, 2013 on resetting your brain with a vacation.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

IBM100 - A Commitment to Employee Education - 0 views

  • Encouraged by Watson Sr. and his executive team, employees often formed their own study groups. One, known as the Owl Club, allowed employees to study any subject they wanted at company expense. Such programs evolved into adult learning classes, and eventually into grants for employees to pursue college credits and degrees
  • Today, industry specialists around the world in IBM Global Business Services use an array of e-learning tools—including podcasts and Twitter—customer on-site classes, and IBM conferences and classrooms to educate customers on everything from the use of social media and cloud computing, to how to build a smarter rail system. And IBM employees worldwide take advantage of their networked community to draw upon each other’s skills day and night to solve customer problems and develop the capabilities clients value most.
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    interesting history of employee education at IBM including an early commitment to train college educated women in the 1920s
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

3 More Ways E-learning Designers Can Use Snapshots to Design Better Courses - E-Learnin... - 0 views

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    Nice examples on using snapshots for introducing topics, showing trends, etc.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

4 Signs Your Nonprofit Should Quit a Social Network - 0 views

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    Very valuable assessment of social media that this nonprofit--Nonprofit Tech for Good--decided to drop or continue at the end of 2014. December 28, 2015
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Power Networking: How Your Business Card Collection Can Help Your Career - Forbes - 0 views

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    Four points on how to sort, organize, and maintain valuable contacts starting with new business cards
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Will Technology Replace Your Job? Probably! [Infographic] - Career Pivot - 0 views

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    great infographic on risks of having your work become automated--suggests retooling might be in order for many workers
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Online learning is for introverts like sea to fish | Cristina Chis | LinkedIn - 0 views

  • 1. You as a learner
  • Introverts are pressured to act like extroverts instead of embracing their serious, often quiet and reflective style (because they can see that those who succeed are mostly of extroverted style)
  • ntroverts count for 1/3 to 1/2 of your class/audience.
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    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.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

6 Illustrations That Show What It's Like in an Introvert's Head - 0 views

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    wonderful illustrations showing how introverts and extroverts process learning differently on Susan Cain's blog
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5 Snarky (but Simple) Design Tips That Will Immediately Improve Your Content - 0 views

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    tips on website, blog design
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The 5 ways employers prefer to fill a position | Things Career Related - 0 views

  • What do you do as a jobseeker? The obvious answer is to become a referral by reaching out to those you know in a desired company. This sounds easier said than done, but the steps you take begin first with determining which companies you’d like to work for. And, most importantly, why? Create a list of 15 target companies.
  • f you were an outstanding employee where you last worked, friends of your employer will come to you. I see this often with my best customers who land jobs based on their personal branding.
  • You must become a referral.
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    blog post by Bob McIntosh, CPRW, trainer who leads job search workshops and is Linked authority
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Is Your Career Like A Suitcase Without A Handle? - Forbes - 0 views

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    a handle for others to grab onto the value you bring functions much like an elevator speech, blog post by Bruce Kasanoff, December 3, 2015, Forbes
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

CEOs Tweeting Away in Droves | Flack Me - 0 views

  • Twitter’s virtually a worldwide city square.
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    Doug Bedell writes that at last count, 288,000 CEOs tweeting away. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Slack Aims to Become a Control Panel for Your Job - The New York Times - 1 views

  • About two million people a day now use Slack, mainly to chat with others at work. On Tuesday, the company is unveiling a couple of initiatives that will add new capabilities to the system. The first is an app store that will let developers of business software more easily plug their programs into Slack. Together with its investors, the company is also creating an $80 million fund to invest in apps that can be integrated with Slack.
  • Atlassian makes HipChat, one of Slack’s chief rivals, which also offers integration with other applications.
  • In its first incarnation, the directory will feature 150 apps that are compatible with Slack, including programs from Google, Twitter, Dropbox and Box.
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  • “Slack is useful all by itself, but it’s much more useful if all these things are integrated with it,”
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    How Slack will become a centralized integration point for many functions, NYT, Farhad Manjoo, Bits, December 15, 2015, making it more possible for workers to work remotely.
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What Men And Women Are Doing On Facebook - Forbes - 0 views

  • While women often use online social networking tools to make connections and share items from their personal lives, men use them as means to gather information and increase their status.
  • three-quarters of women use online communities to stay up to date with friends and family, and 68% use them to “connect with others like me.”
  • Women are online solving real-life issues.
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  • Girls learn to build relationships by sharing social information. Boys learn to compare and compete with others, always striving for more success.”
  • use each other as resources
  • Today, women are still more likely to be forthcoming and verbose than men, she says, a difference that is reflected online.
  • men leverage social media for broadcasting their ideas and skills vs. women who find connections with others by sharing the ups and downs of their daily lives.
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    article by Jenna Goudreau, Forbes staff, April 26, 2010 on how women are more social and specific action oriented while men are more strategic in their use of blogs, networks, etc.
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    article by Jenna Goudreau, Forbes staff, April 26, 2010 on how women are more social and specific action oriented while men are more strategic in their use of blogs, networks, etc. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Current State of Sales Training Infographic - e-Learning Infographics - 0 views

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    blows training out of the water with this infographic
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A Sherry Turkle Rebuttal: In Defense of the Active Social Voice: Associations Now - 0 views

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    Ernie Smith, AssociationsNow,argues for tweets and other social media to bring people closer, while Sherry Turkle, MIT, was saying that we spend too much time on social media. It's not either or but both imo.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Women in eLearning: A Retrospective by Julie Dirksen : Learning Solutions Magazine - 0 views

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    great page on women in elearning with articles written by a variety of authors in 2015--need to read but the article titles seem right in line with LeanIn issues we have talked about in our group.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

BBC Interview "Fail" Shows the Human Side of Remote Work | LinkedIn - 0 views

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    shows how remote work can be enlivened with family participation
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Sexual harassment and the sharing economy: the dark side of working for strangers | Bus... - 0 views

  • But almost entirely overlooked amid the public outrage is the massive pool of low-wage workers – especially in the sharing economy – who are vulnerable to a wide range of abuses on the job because they lack basic labor rights.
  • “We have to talk about this as a problem these platforms have created,” said Mary Anne Franks, a University of Miami law professor who studies online abuse. “[If you’re] going to set up a platform to make it possible for people to instantaneously communicate with people they don’t know ... you know full well it’s going to be abused and weaponized.”
  • The success of many on-demand companies like DoorDash depends on hiring a large, cheap workforce of contract employees who have no benefits or job security.
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    the guardian on low wage workers in the sharing economy and their vulnerability to abuse because they lack basic labor rights.
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