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Lisa Levinson

Gender: Food security - 0 views

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    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations report on food security and how women play a decisive role in household food security, dietary diversity, and children's health. When looking at making sure everyone has enough to eat, involving women is crucial, yet in many societies they are not allowed to be part of the process.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Information Diet | Video: Let's Start the Whole News Movement - 0 views

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    video (18 minutes) by Clay Johnson, February 2012, hyping his book The Information Diet. Goes to food analogies again and again--pizza tastes better than broccoli--and abundance of entertainment, affirmation, and fear is secret pact between customer and media producers online. What is it that people want? What we tell them through our clicks and searches is that we want to be right acc: to Johnson. AP story--poll economic worries pose new snag for Obama. On Fox news, it says that Obama has big problem with white women. They changed headline and reduced story by 600 words, taking out everything positive about his work. They know that readers will read something negative about president. "Opinion tastes better than news." How AOL should make its editorial decisions--they want to spend no more than $84 on a piece of content. How they decide: traffic potential (using SEO to find out what people are searching for--no one is searching for Pentagon Papers or broccoli); bottom of list is editorial integrity because it is market inefficiency. Believes that we are living in land of info abundance where we want to be affirmed, not told the truth. SEOs complete the inquiry to present tabloid types of info that attract us and distract us and misinform us. Our clicks lead to poor information diets, a disease. Make a whole news movement, a slow news movement, demand that media change. We as readers need to upgrade. information over-consumption, not overload enable infoveganism--eat food, not too much, real food at bottom of food chain. 2. Use source material--show your work. 3. Let me pay you for ad free experience. 4. Content is not a commodity (for news producers)
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

5 Secrets of a Successful Virtual Partnership | Work ReimaginedWork Reimagined - 0 views

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    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."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How to raise wages | The New Republic - 0 views

  • Many workers aren’t even getting the pay they’ve been promised for the work they do. Complaints of wage theft, like that experienced by NFL cheerleaders, jumped by 400 percent between 2000 and 2011. It’s rampant in some industries: 89 percent of fast food workers say they’ve been made to work for free off the clock, denied overtime pay, or simply paid less than minimum wage. More is stolen from low-wage workers than is robbed from banks, gas stations, and convenience stores combined. Lawmakers in a handful of cities and two states, Colorado and New York, have passed anti-wage theft ordinances to crack down on companies that steal wages and make it easier for workers to bring claims.
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    mentions wage theft experienced by NFL cheerleaders, fast food workers, low-wage workers
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Pinterest: Why Your Company Should Take An Interest - The BrainYard - - 0 views

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    Explores value of Pinterest for business, Donston-Miller, March 6, 2012. Pinterest users are heavily women and younger (ages 25-44) Assessment: "Companies are finding themselves challenged to effectively marshal their externally facing social networking efforts, and most are likely focusing on Facebook and Twitter. So, with resources at a premium, should your company be paying attention to upstart social network Pinterest right now? The short answer is yes." Pinterest experiencing huge growth and now drives more traffic to Real Simple website than Facebook does. Caveat: Pinterest user boards overwhelmingly focus on food, fashion, home decor, and hobbies, things that are visual and usually visually appealing. "Pinterest is best used to inspire or remind... looking at capitalizing on Pinterest as a gift registry ...even if your company doesn't make or promote something highly visual ...it probably has something that can be visualized and put into context... data ...house infographics--things like data sets, visualization of data.... even with something like a technology company, there are always ways to visualize information in an engaging way."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Young People Think The Internet Is As Important As Breathing - Business Insider - 0 views

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    interesting blog post by Dina Spector, 11/3/2011, on a survey of 8,000 young people on how important internet access is to them. Excerpt: A new study by Cisco Systems reveals that one in three college students and young professionals under 30 believe the Internet is as important as air, water, food, and shelter (via CNNMoney). The study, which polled 8,000 people in 14 countries, found that more than half of the participants said they could not live without the Internet, citing it as "more important than owning a car, dating, and going to parties." Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/internet-cisco-poll-2011-11#ixzz2t86UUkO7
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why We're All Addicted to Texts, Twitter and Google | Psychology Today - 0 views

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    Great article by Susan Weinschenk, Brain Wise: Work better, work smarter, September 11, 2012, and why dopamine keeps us "seeking" when we already have enough information. excerpt: Do you ever feel like you are addicted to email or twitter or texting? Do you find it impossible to ignore your email if you see that there are messages in your inbox? Do you think that if you could ignore your incoming email or messages you might actually be able to get something done at work? You are right!" ... "Instead of dopamine causing you to experience pleasure, the latest research shows that dopamine causes seeking behavior. Dopamine causes you to want, desire, seek out, and search. It increases your general level of arousal and your goal-directed behavior. From an evolutionary stand-point this is critical. The dopamine seeking system keeps you motivated to move through your world, learn, and survive. It's not just about physical needs such as food, or sex, but also about abstract concepts. Dopamine makes you curious about ideas and fuels your searching for information. Research shows that it is the opioid system (separate from dopamine) that makes us feel pleasure." Turn off the cues - One of the most important things you can do to prevent or stop a dopamine loop, and be more productive is to turn off the cues. Adjust the settings on your cell phone and on your laptop, desktop or tablet so that you don't receive the automatic notifications. Automatic notifications are touted as wonderful features of hardware, software, and apps. But they are actually causing you to be like a rat in a cage. If you want to get work done you need to turn off as many auditory and visual cues as possible. It's the best way to prevent and break the dopamine loops. What do you think? How do you deal with dopamine loops? Are you willing to turn off your cues?
anonymous

She-conomy » MARKETING TO WOMEN QUICK FACTS - 0 views

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    "Women process information and make purchasing decisions differently than men: 59% of women feel misunderstood by food marketers; 66% feel misunderstood by health care marketers; 74% feel misunderstood by automotive marketers; 84% feel misunderstood by investment marketers 91% of women in one survey said that advertisers don't understand them 70% of new businesses are started by women The average black woman spends 3 times as much on beauty products compared with the average woman Women influence $90 billion dollars worth of consumer electronic purchases in 2007 61% of women influence household consumer electronic buying decisions Nearly 50% of women say they want more green choices 37% are more likely to pay attention to brands that are committed to environmental causes. 25% of all products in a woman's shopping cart nowadays are environmentally friendly.When women are aware you support women owned businesses 79% would try your product or service 80% would solidify their brand loyalty"
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Is Your Professional Development a Waste of Time? - Finding Common Ground - Education Week - 0 views

  • No time for real dialogue. No time to ask questions
  • . "Oh we do this already," is a common response to PD. Do they do it...or do they think they do it? The report states that, "non-improvers are almost twice as likely to self-assess their own performance as stronger than their formal ratings."
  • Reflection is important, but it needs to be done with evidence.
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  • But it still didn't mean the PD they wanted to attend actually worked.
  • participants, regardless of the type of school system, show up without much background knowledge on why they are there.
  • they need to make sure that they have a school climate that is conducive to learning and not one that focuses on accountability and compliance.
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    interesting blog post, lots of food for thought about PD for compliance reasons and how to support growth long-term, Peter DeWitt, August 18, 2015
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Getting followers on Twitter : What's a lawyer to do? - 0 views

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    Very interesting blog post by Kevin O'Keefe on getting followers on Twitter, March 10, 2014. Offers 13 tips on using Twitter well including using your own name, not your law firm's name; focusing on a niche to tweet about; setting up a RSS news reader such as Feedly to gather information for you to tweet on; leaving enough characters for a retweet, etc. Food for thought for us at Studio.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Learners are learning differently; are you changing the way you train and support them?... - 0 views

  • It is continuous
  • It is on demand
  • It happens in short bursts
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  • It is social
  • It happens in the flow of work or on-the-go
  • It is often serendipitous
  • It is autonomous
  • They are changing the concept of training,
  • The structure helps learners to develop the ‘hooks’ to hang their new understanding and skills
  • providing pathways through many learning experiences
  • social, drip, drip experience provides safety nets
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    Jane Hart speaks to the context behind her upcoming workshop (starts April 6) on updating our approaches to helping people learn based on what many are already choosing to do. Food for thought ... MAEA and learning design? Blog post?
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How Willpower Works: Decision Fatigue and How to Avoid Bad Choices - 0 views

  • What the researchers found was that at the beginning of the day, a judge was likely to give a favorable ruling about 65 percent of the time. However, as the morning wore on and the judge became drained from making more and more decisions, the likelihood of a criminal getting a favorable ruling steadily dropped to zero.
  • It didn’t matter what the crime was — murder, rape, theft, embezzlement — a criminal was much more likely to get a favorable response if their parole hearing was scheduled in the morning (or immediately after a food break) than if it was scheduled near the end of a long session.
  • As it turns out, your willpower is like a muscle. And similar to the muscles in your body, willpower can get fatigued when you use it over and over again. Every time you make a decision, it’s like doing another rep in the gym. And similar to how your muscles get tired at the end of a workout, the strength of your willpower fades as you make more decisions.
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  • decision fatigue.
  • If you have a particularly decision-heavy day at work, then you come home feeling drained. You might want to go to the gym and workout, but your brain would rather default to the easy decision: sit on the couch. That’s decision fatigue.
  • 1. Plan daily decisions the night before.
  • 2. Do the most important thing first.
  • Start your day by working on the most important thing in your life.
  • 3. Stop making decisions. Start making commitments.
  • 4. If you have to make good decisions later in the day, then eat something first.
  • When you want to get better decisions from your mind, put better food into your body
  • 5. Simplify.
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    James Clear on how to use willpower and decisions more effectively
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why So Few Baby Boomers Are Volunteering - Forbes - 0 views

  • According to the Volunteering in the United States survey, “providing professional or management assistance, including serving on a board or committee” is the second most popular form of volunteering for Americans over 55, after “collecting, preparing, distributing or serving food.”
  • ey’re increasingly targeting boomers with what’s known as “skills-based volunteering” opportunities whose jobs are valued at $40 to $500 an hour, far more than traditional volunteering’s $18 to $20 an hour, according to a blog post by Emily Ferstie of United Way for Southeastern Michigan.
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    drop in boomer age group for volunteering, they are wanting to use their career skills. BEST in Hollywood, FL is working to create a focused engagement: 50 boomer volunteers to train 500 unemployed and underemployed people and run a job fair within 18 months
anonymous

Lady logos: why are they all alike? - 0 views

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    Even if you've never purchased Mifeprex, the abortion pill that turns 10 years old this week, you've seen the logo. At a yoga studio, in the supermarket's natural foods aisle, or even at a charity event, the silhouette of a dancing woman has become the marker of a product designed for women.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Seminar Tips - Notre Dame OpenCourseWare - 0 views

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    Very nice list of before, during, and after actions for learning in college seminars at the University of Notre Dame. Believe these tips have value for our Learning Labs, too. Before class--do the reading, don't expect to understand, make notes on the readings, write an outline, bring in ideas During class--add your point of view, be the devil's advocate, ask questions, say wrong things, check the facts and look up the quotes, expect discussion to wax and wane. After class--let things gel, then mix them up again (reflect, write to explain your view and that of someone else), don't make up your mind, write a blog post, talk to other experts, revisit old readings.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

5 Steps for Creating Healthy Habits | The Chopra Center - 0 views

  • Step 1: Set Goals by Baselining Your Health
  • Step 3: Identify Harmful Patterns
  • Visualizing your desired outcome is a useful tool in your journey. “Seeing” yourself as you wish to be has helped smokers quit, obese people lose weight, and sports champions achieve their goals. In order to change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.
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  • Step 4: Make Steady Changes
  • One way to break that cycle is to reward ourselves in a different way. Instead of eating cake, we can go play a game or listen to music.
  • Some of the choices that trigger dopamine's release: eating sweet foods, taking drugs, having sex.
  • So begin with a victory you can define and which means something to you.
  • How long does it take to form a new habit? An average of 66 days, according to a 2009 study from University College, London. Repetition and giving yourself time to adjust are the main factors in forming a new behavior pattern.
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    Deepak Chopra offers 5 steps for creating healthy habits
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