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Very good personal assessment of why Twitter is valuable, Ross Dawson, June 20, 2011, blog

blog post by Susan J. Ellis, Energize, February 2017, great post for helping volunteers thrive in moving org mission

Another justification in Copyblogger for the WLStudio, May 2012

This article by Matthew Lynch in Education Week, January 8, 2014 speaks to the four ways that technology has changed K-12 education. They are 1) collaboration 2) research online 3) remote learning and 4) teacher prep. Seems that with a few wording changes, the same could be said about digital technology's impact on the workforce. Is the workforce ready?

Great resource by Idealware for nonprofits to use to use social media well for different purposes such as events, outreach, volunteer recruitment, etc. Oddly, professional development or learning by staff/volunteers/across organizational boundaries is not mentioned. Wonder if we should reach out to Idealware's authors to discuss adding another section to guide next year?

blog post by Juliana Weiss-Roessler on why online resumes are critical to have these days, February 15, 2013. She recommends using LinkedIn, online resume builder, and your own website.

from Te@chthought.com: Terry Hick updated the 2013 version of this infographic on 5/21/15. Mirrors Seek, sense, share and the digital literacies in Net Smart. Good site for teaching and learning, although k - 12 focused but relevant to most teaching, I think.

Workforce Productivity special advertising section for the The Wall Street Journal from Dow Jones Advertising department, Joe Mullich, May 8, 2013.

Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States is the tenth annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education. The survey is designed, administered and analyzed by the Babson Survey Research Group. Data collection is conducted in partnership with the College Board. This year's study, like those for the previous nine years, tracks the opinions of chief academic officers and is aimed at answering fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education. Based on responses from more than 2,800 colleges and universities,

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.

Another blog from workintelligent.ly. 3 simple signs your company is not understanding today's technology - most of which point to not trying to control what is used and how it is used, sharing tech info, knowledge and skills, and using the expertise of everyone that uses technology. A unnamed dig at Microsoft and Explorer as an example of what not to do.

A good model for us to think about: 3 signs your organization doesn't understand networked learning and/or PD could be a blog or promotional outreach for us.

A blog from Workintelligent.ly about how intranet, based on social media concepts but for working within a company, could supplant email. I found the comments very interesting - issues such as most projects are by independent contractors who don't benefit from intranets, etc.

Lorenzo Grandi is founder of Startupbootcamp Amerstam. He outlines what makes a successful crowdfunding campaign. Ask: what do you or can you offer? Who is your competition? What has worked well for them? Feature a video - more likely to get funded if you have one. Although this is geared toward business, it has a lot of good tips and links to other blogs and sites (including Kickstarter and their help area), and is easy to understand and practical.

Allyson Kapin writes about nonprofits taking advantage of online social media, December 31, 2015.  Includes new ones such as Medium, Periscope. 

Ron Barnett's quote in context on why lecturing creates a predictable environment that does not engage the students.

Ron Barnett's quote in context on why lecturing creates a predictable environment that does not engage the students.