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interesting article in NYT on February 24, 2013 on how adults long out of high school in some cases cobbled together learning experiences--formal academic work, open courseware, and experiential--to receive college degrees from Thomas Edison in New Jersey without ever having arrived on campus or borrowed money to pay for their degrees

Article by Pamela Mitchell for the New York Times Opinion Pages, 2.10.13 on creating employment and career growth opportunities for young and older workers. Excerpt below speaks to what older workers need to do to be more greatly valued. I do not think most middle to late career workers can afford to let go of the golden handcuffs (HI coverage) to take side trips into entrepreneurial ventures though. Nevertheless, the argument supports the need for WLStudio assisted learning online by women. Excerpt: "Conversely, older workers often need to develop the enhanced technology and communications skills necessary in today's marketplace. But the most important skill an older worker can learn from someone younger is that of continuous, conscious reinvention. Rather than fruitlessly searching for a "safe" job in a "safe" industry (neither of which exist), older workers must embrace the younger generation's flexible perspective. This means structuring their remaining working years as a latticework of skill-development opportunities with multiple employers, along with occasional side trips into entrepreneurship. "

MIT and Harvard have teamed up to offer MOOCs, and this month Stanford, Princeton, U of PA, U of MI have created a new commercial company, Coursera, with $16 million in venture capital.

Showcasing your work in an online Portfolio can help give employers a clear picture of you and your skills.

The New York Times recommends creating an ePortfolio to show potential employers.

The New York Times recommends creating an ePortfolio to showcase skills to employers.

a new MOOC model: uses open source web content as course design. Won't need a traditional instructor or large start-up investment. Known as a mechanical MOOC.

article in Bits, NYT, by Nick Bilton on coping with email, January 19, 2014. Found the article through notation by my LinkedIn link Bob Gallo. Brings up the term email_bankruptcy whereby one deletes all the unread email at the start of the new year.

benefits of online book clubs: get along with participants as you don't have to hear about their lives, can go online to discussion at anytime, be exposed to books you would not read ordinarily, and no small talk about kids, jobs, kitchen remodels, etc. Something for us to think about!

Using video chat. Google hangouts, new technology to have virtual happy hours to create a feeling of connection, personal relationships in business settings.

Something for us to sponsor?

Commencement speeches at different colleges, June 15, 2014 Harvey Mudd College Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist "Your unique education has prepared you for careers at the cutting edge of innovation. This is both good news and bad news. It's good news because you're probably going to find a job, it will pay well, and it will be intellectually fulfilling. It's bad news because whatever you thought you were training for when you started this exercise might not actually exist anymore. Five years ago, when you guys were deciding where to go to college, there were very few mobile-app developers or big-data architects, and there certainly weren't any chief listening officers for social media outlets. It's hard to imagine where the next five years will go, but it's kind of fun to do so. ... Who knows, but you guys are going to be among the people that are actually making it happen. And it'll be awesome, as long as you're willing to take some risks and step outside of your comfort zone. When an opportunity arises, take it." UNC at Chapel Hill Atul Gawande, doctor and writer "Ultimately, it turns out we all have an intrinsic need to pursue purposes larger than ourselves, purposes worth making sacrifices for. People often say, 'Find your passion.' But there's more to it than that. Not all passions are enough. Just existing for your desires feels empty and insufficient, because our desires are fleeting and insatiable. You need a loyalty. The only way life is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a society. ... the search for purpose is really a search for a place, not an idea. It is a search for a location in the world where you want to be part of making things better for others in your own small way. It could be a classroom where you teach, a business where you work, a neighborhood where you live. The key is, if you find yourself in a place where you stop caring - where your greatest conce

interesting article by Facebook co-founder on how tech start-up expectations/long hours result in diminishing returns and ageism and sexism

Article from NYT Blogs by Claire Cain Miller, 2012, on $22.5m fine levied by Consumer Protection, FTC, against Google for collecting data on where Safari browser users visit online to construct ads to market to them.

Article by Christine Porath, June 20, 2015, NYT on rudeness and bad behavior and its impact on us. Has two lists: Boors in the Workplace, Behaviors that we admit to Also has paragraph on impact of multitasking and too much technology

article in Economix by Catherine Rampell, March 8, 2013 on the rise of part-time work. Excerpt: We are nowhere near recovering the jobs lost in the recession, and the track record looks even worse when you consider that so many of the jobs lost were full time, whereas so many of those gained have been part time. Compared with December 2007, when the recession officially began, there are 5.8 million fewer Americans working full time. In that same period, there has been an increase of 2.8 million working part time. Part-time workers - defined as people who usually work fewer than 35 hours a week - are still a minority of the work force, but their share is growing.

very interesting article for LeanIn group

Interview with Sharon Sloane by Adam Bryant, August 2, 2014 The third thing is that you're going to have some failures and defeats. Learn from them. My favorite expression is, examined experience is the best teacher.

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

blog post by Daniel Newman, author of Millennial CEO on need to learn continuously and quickly.  Find the reference to IBM asking employees to acquire tech skills.  could be reference in ECO Byte #1. 

Interesting background on the difference in communication styles between women and men by Susan C. Herring, professor of information science. Conclusion seems to be that women like "walled garden" communication styles, such as those used in Facebook or blogs where antagonistic comments may be controlled or eliminated, women are less assertive about establishing their knowledge nuggets and tend to be more suggestive and open to different interpretations of 'facts' than men are.

David Pogue of the NY Times gives a quick talk on 10 time saving tech tips.

10 tips for time saving using the web

Preoccupations feature by Peggy Klaus, August 14, 2016, speaks to whether women-only conferences, corporate workshops, and networking soirees (single-sex type events) enable women to move up in the workplace. May be an overreliance in some corporations.