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Lisa Levinson

Advantages & Disadvantages of Job Hunting on the Internet | Chron.com - 0 views

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    from work.chron.com: advantage of job boards: convenience, cheap Disadvantage: limited job pool, competition
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why Older Workers Can't Be Ignored - Forbes - 0 views

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    Article by Kerry Hannon, Forbes, 1.25.13 This author asserts that older workers will become more valued by employers even though they aren't making special efforts to hire or retain them now and do not want to pay for the cost of training/retraining them. These trends suggest that taking charge of one's own learning with a PLP, PLN, etc. and taking advantage of all the free opportunities will be valuable skills to have. This author only looks to community colleges for retraining and does not reference any of the online options that we know about from the work on the directory. Should we draft a comment back to Kerry Hannon on this website? "1. Who is going to pay for that training? Most labor market experts I have interviewed say the government and private employers need to ramp up more training programs for older workers and create workplaces that make it easier for them to do their jobs. Employers don't want to spend for it. They've already cut to the bone to stay competitive globally in recent years and this kind of spending is a tough sell. Conceivably, as I discussed as a panel member at a recent Federal Reserve Workforce Development conference, one way to provide the needed training is through the community college system. The coursework could be offered at an affordable cost for the worker. Depending on who foots the bill, employers or employeees could receive tax incentives to ease the tuition bill. (Please continue to next page.) "
Lisa Levinson

Mightybell Is Just Another Social Network Inspired By AOL Chat Rooms. Wait, What? | Fas... - 0 views

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    from Fast Company.com Explanation of Mightybell and interview with Gina Bianchini about why she created it. Again, the focus is on groups. "Today, the number of social networks available to us means there's a surfeit of places to come together online--we share aspirational photos on Pinterest, photos from our lives on Instagram, news on Google+, Internet happenings on Tumblr, and everything else on Facebook. But with so many channels to work with (waste time on?), the things we want to say are easily drowned out in noise, making it hard to establish genuine, intimate relationships with groups of people who aren't close friends and family. Sure, you can like a photo or retweet a clever one-liner as gestures of social solidarity, but they don't go far in making connections that count. Which is why Gina Bianchini, founder of new social network Mightybell, thinks it's time for an AOL chat room renaissance. Collaboration and action in intimate circles could be her competitive advantage."
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    More on Mightybell
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Kevin Carey Gives the Right Diagnosis; I'm Less Sure About the Prescription |e-Literate - 0 views

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    Blog site named "e-Literate" catchy, no? (Wish I had thought of it! But maybe we can use e-literacy for the foundations course?) This blog post written by Michael Feldstein, one of multiple bloggers on this site, quotes extensively from a New Republic article written by Kevin Carey. What I think is interesting for us is how we must add value (coaching, badging, mentoring, etc.) as private providers of learning to what most people could do on a DIY basis if they had all the skills--technological, contextual, and others--to proceed on their own. Excerpt: "Other providers might take advantage of the fast-growing body of open educational resources-free online courses, videos, lectures, and syllabi-and add value primarily through mentoring, designing course sequences, and assessing learning."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

5 (less traditional) ways to create and share knowledge online | Scoop.it Blog - 0 views

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    Blog by Lindsay Brunner, June 19, 2013, Scoop.it curated, that identifies less known tools for sharing--Scribd, Reddit, Yarny, Scoop.it, and Google Drive and their advantages.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Welcome · 85Broads.com - 0 views

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    Membership page for 85 Broads. Has annual membership levels of Power Circle (1,000), Investor ($250), Visionary $100), Student ($25). Sales points are Get connected through network, events, jam sessions, and speakers; Get great deals in Advantage85; Jobs; and Exclusive Member discounts; and Gain exposure in Spotlight, Books and Publications, Blogs, Media Rockstarts. Has 16 year track record.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Coming to a Couch Near You: A New Wave of Telecommuting - 0 views

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    ""We do our best work when we're physically connected," says Roy Hirshland, CEO of T3 Advisors, a commercial real estate advisor. Dialing in on Skype will work in a pinch, but it's not a substitute, he says. "When you're in the same room, you can see facial expressions, you can feel energy in a room." The idea is based on Media Richness Theory, which posits that some tasks require face-to-face interaction. Skype doesn't fit the bill. "Skype is a great, free way to communicate with sound and picture, but with glitchy connections, awkward camera angles, the limitations of webcams and cheap microphones, etc.," says Dr. Matthew Lombard, a professor at Temple University and president of the International Society for Presence Research. "It's far from the same experience as talking to someone in person. Face-Time and other tablet and phone methods have the advantage of mobility, but they suffer in terms of the vividness of the experience." "Narrow-bandwidth tech like text-based chat rooms and messaging, and email, are great for specific, relatively straight-forward, 'dry' cognitive tasks but not so good for things that involve ambiguity and emotion," Lombard says. "So there are an awful lot of tasks people need to complete in business (and certainly in life generally) that don't lend themselves well to these technologies.""
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Resume Templates for Visual Resumes - The Muse - 0 views

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    identifies 5 digital resume tools for taking advantage of html
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

HOW TO: Set Up an Online Resume - 0 views

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    Shows examples of an infograph resume, a video resume, a resume on SlideShare (very nice), and interesting examples of video resumes and taking advantage of LinkedIn (could not get the link to show anything interesting)
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Reality Check Reveals Ed-Tech Challenges - Education Week - 0 views

  • That, ultimately, is the challenge: to identify digitally driven, innovative practices that work and scale them up. Schools can look to a growing number of models to meet that challenge, as well as the lessons that can be learned from others' mistakes.
  • many schools are turning to open educational resources. They're convinced that the free, malleable, and shareable academic content offers advantages that traditional commercial materials cannot match.
  • administrators and teachers are learning to embrace the eclectic jumble of student-owned devices, in the belief that taking a flexible approach will benefit instruction.
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  • "Bring your own device," or BYOD, programs have also proved to be cost-effective and flexible options for 1-to-1 computing goals
  • "Learning to use the right tool for the right purpose that's a life skill."
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    article by Kevin Bushweller, June 10, 2015 in EdWeek, good guidance for adult ed programs and informal adult learning as well IMO.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Best Team Chat App for Your Company - 0 views

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    Great page discussing advantages and features of different team chat apps
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why Excom Meetings Are the Wrong Place to Make Decisions - HBR - 0 views

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    Good article on why decisions may or even should not be made in meetings. "Further advantages of turning agenda items into questions include: Clarifying expected outcomes and thus avoiding discussions that run on because there is no defined end; Keeping participants alert during presentations because they're expected to respond; Helping presenters focus on what is essential and leave out unnecessary detail that waste everyone's time; Ensuring a given topic is necessary. "
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

7 Powerful Ways to Turn Every Failure Into Success | Inc.com - 0 views

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    "stop shaming our failures, the easier it will be to turn them to our advantage."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: The Big Shift in Business Strategy - 0 views

  • The key is to develop the capacity to move rapidly to reap the most benefit from influence, leverage and learning. Firms and other institutions need to cultivate the ability to participate in an expanding range of knowledge flows effectively. 
  • They must also find ways to effectively filter through this expanding range of knowledge flows to extract the insights and approaches that have the potential to create the most value. Finally, they also need to quickly turn around and apply these insights and approaches both within their organization and across a broader range of participants in the system. In sum, the winners will be those who master the techniques required for scalable learning.
  • These are proactive strategies of movement – designed to strengthen influence points by harnessing their learning potential. If done right, it creates a powerful virtuous cycle – more effective learning attracts others and expands influence which in turn increases the potential for further learning.  To borrow a favorite phrase from my colleague, John Seely Brown, we trigger a generative dance between position and movement that takes us to unforeseen levels of impact.
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  • Here are some key questions you should be asking and answering:   Who occupies influence points today within my market or industry? What are potential new influence points that might emerge from the fundamental forces reshaping my market or industry? Who is working to build and occupy new influence points? Have I built robust relationships with these players?
  • One final thought – what if we applied this strategic notion of influence points and accelerated learning to our individual lives? How could we increase our personal impact?
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    John Hagel is a co-chair of Deloitte Center for the Edge. Here he talks about influence points and positioning oneself among influence points through our technology enabled connections. Power laws still concentrate an extraordinary # of connections around a few nodes. But having access to knowledge flows, one will be able to anticipate what's going to happen before others do, one could perhaps shape the flows and more rapid learning may occur because of access to a growing and diverse set of information or knowledge flows. Learning faster than anyone else will enable a company or person to "have a significant advantage relative to those who are scrambling to catch up." Uses the PC microprocessor and operating system components to concretize influence points.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Create an Online Hub About You | Worms In the FridgeWorms In the Fridge - 0 views

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    Richard Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers), the former social studies teacher turned technology wizard consultant, wrote this January 1, 2014 blog post on his new blog Worms in the Fridge. It excels at explaining how to set up a blog on WordPress (his recommended app) to make it one's online hub or central domain. He admits that when he started FTfT on Blogger, he did not yet understand the ease or advantages of WordPress. He is humble, easy to read and follow and the content relates to the personal branding assistance we hope to provide.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Virtual Offices: She Wrote the Book on It: Associations Now - 0 views

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    Short interview with woman--Gayle Bennett--who wrote about taking her business virtual. Looks interesting: Flex: The Virtual Office Advantage.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Four Tips for Nonprofits to Stay Relevant in 2016 - 0 views

  • Will websites die in the next 10 years? No, websites are not at risk of being phased out, but of course they will evolve, function, and look different than they do today. Social media platforms and mobile will become even more prevalent (including ones that we don’t even know about yet) and nonprofit leaders must carve out time to understand these trends and act now to remain relevant with their base of supporters.
  • Make your website, signup forms, and donation forms mobile responsive.
  • Update Your Nonprofit’s Facebook page a few times a day.
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  • Build up your nonprofit’s leadership influence online.
  • The president of your organization may have clout in offline and influential circles including the White House, but online is an entirely different ball game. As more news breaks online, often on Twitter, you want your leadership to be the go-to source for reporters. Guess what? Reporters look for experts on Twitter. If your leadership has no active social media presence, reporters who need facts and interviews ASAP will quickly overlook your senior leadership. I've seen this happen many times. 
  • Test new platforms.
  • If your nonprofit hasn’t tested Medium, try it. It’s a strong community of thought leaders who write and share different perspectives from the arts to climate change.
  • Another app worth testing is Periscope, acquired by Twitter.
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    Allyson Kapin writes about nonprofits taking advantage of online social media, December 31, 2015.  Includes new ones such as Medium, Periscope. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Digital Skills Help Narrow the Workplace Gender Gap, Accenture Research Finds | Accentu... - 0 views

  • And digital fluency, the extent to which people embrace and use digital technologies to become more knowledgeable, connected and effective, plays a key role in helping women achieve gender equality and level the playing field.
  • A new research report from Accenture (NYSE:ACN), Getting to Equal: How Digital is Helping Close the Gender Gap at Work, provides empirical proof that women are using digital skills to gain an edge in preparing for work, finding work and advancing at work. 
  • “This is a powerful message for all women and girls. Continuously developing and growing your ability to use digital technologies, both at home and in the workplace, has a clear and positive effect at every stage of your career.  And it provides a distinct advantage, as businesses and governments seek to fill the jobs that support today’s growing economy.”
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  • the extent to which people are using digital technologies in their personal and home life, as well as in their education and work. T
  • Digital technologies include virtual coursework, digital collaboration tools (webcams, instant messaging), social media platforms and use of digital devices, such as smart phones.
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    press release on Accenture study looking at how digitally savvy women are helping to close the gender gap in the workplace, March 3, 2016. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Building Capacity Through Networks | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views

  • place a priority on a capacity building initiative that presents itself wrapped in a bow.
  • use network contacts to determine whether it would be more efficient to organize a user group for network members who use the same database. Tapping the wisdom of the network can save time, aggravation, and perhaps thousands of dollars in fees for consultants to train staff or customize a new database, or to replace software that staff may simply not understand. Conversely, the network may confirm that your nonprofit is an outlier for using that particular database.
  • Leverage your participation in a network to learn from other nonprofit leaders.
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  • peer-learning cohort
  • plans its next board orientation—and perhaps its success in attracting and retaining a diverse board of directors.
  • Networks are especially well-suited to using web-based knowledge-sharing and collaboration tools that easily allow network members to upload and download evaluation templates, curricula for educational programs, and other tools. Technology also allows network members to connect in real time even though they are geographically distant, and to facilitate educational programs that take advantage of a combination of online and in-person learning components.
  • The one-time workshops nonprofit capacity builders relied on in the past don’t make the same deep impression on program participants as longer-term, peer-learning cohorts, which prompt participants to dig deeply into their personal learning journeys and connect mor
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    excellent article by Jennifer Chandler and Kristen Scott Kennedy on building capacity through networks, February 5, 2016. 
Lisa Levinson

Press Release - Communications Office - Trinity College Dublin - 1 views

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    Scientists have discovered proof that the evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork, shedding new light on the origins of what it means to be human. The study appears online in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B and was led by scientists at Trinity College Dublin: PhD student, Luke McNally and Assistant Professor Dr Andrew Jackson at the School of Natural Sciences in collaboration with Dr Sam Brown of the University of Edinburgh.
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    There really is an advantage to working together!
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