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good example of executive summary at Lifehack

Blog post by Carol Ross, May 21, 2012, Next Avenue PBS, on how to present your "unique promise of value" (William Arruda) on your calling card. Showcase your brand on LinkedIn. Tips: Post a (good) photo with your profile Put the summary section to optimum use --brand story--compelling statement of your distinctive value, a backstory that explains how you go to be so good at what you do, and an aspirational statement. Make your Specialties Section special Align your experience section with your summary section Be choosy about your recommendations Guidelines to develop your brand story--be introspective, gather feedback, identify a theme, describe formative moments in your life.

Very interesting summary of a Luma Institute facilitated session on innovation. I would like to see how we could use these techniques online. Also good links to more detailed summaries of Luma techniques and sticky notes problem solving/facilitation.

nonprofit leadership development by Bridgespan, Executive Summary

Harold Jarche blog, 11.16.12 Excerpt: summary by participant of keynote that Harold delivered in Denmark "Moving from local to global We live in a less barriered world: self-publication, group forming across the world, unlimited information. In the past we linked up with people with similar interests locally, due to simply physical realities… now we can link up with people from around the world. So from a learning perspective our learning group grows (personal addition: this also means that the group that lives inside the personal zone of proximal development grows, as more people can potentially be in this). Groupforming is now becoming networks. This has an effect on mentorship: per mentor you can only have so many learners, but with the growing group more mentors can stand up and the learners themselves can become mentors."

Interesting study on social media users by Pew Internet and American Life Project, December 2012, released February 2013, by Maeve Duggan and Joanna Brenner Summary Twitter attracted 16% of all internet users. They were more likely to be younger (18-29), African American, or Hispanic, and urban. Pinterest attracted 15% of all internet users. They were five times as likely to be women as men, more likely to be wealthier, and rural. Instagram users make up 13% of all internet users. They are more likely to be younger, African-American, Hispanic, and urban. Facebook has 67% of all internet users participating. They are more likely to be younger and more urban. Tumblr has only 6% of all internet users. They are 4x more likely to be younger than older.

Fascinating article by Marina Gorbis on Fast Company site regarding how we must be able to learn online in micro-learning episodes that may last minutes, hours, days, weeks, etc. far removed from schools, MOOCs, and other structured and semi-structured curricula. Excerpt: "We are moving away from the model in which learning is organized around stable, usually hierarchical institutions (schools, colleges, universities) that, for better and worse, have served as the main gateways to education and social mobility. Replacing that model is a new system in which learning is best conceived of as a flow, where learning resources are not scarce but widely available, opportunities for learning are abundant, and learners increasingly have the ability to autonomously dip into and out of continuous learning flows. Instead of worrying about how to distribute scarce educational resources, the challenge we need to start grappling with in the era of socialstructed learning is how to attract people to dip into the rapidly growing flow of learning resources and how to do this equitably, in order to create more opportunities for a better life for more people." In the comments, this summary: "It doesn't matter if you are a physicist, chemist, sociologist, welder, mathematician, teacher, economist, lawyer, restaurant owner, farmer, trucker, whatever, the information most relevant and valuable to your employment is up to you to find! The task requires you find and digest information, on your own. This task used to be a pain, but now we have near-instant access to the entirety of information across the planet. The author is talking about making this access actually instant, not near-instant. Its really just an inevitable thing. "

A good summary of the LeanIn McKinsey report with an interactive version of the report.

Sheryl Sandberg backs the Glass Lion Awards celebrating the work that addresses issues of gender inequality or prejudice. 2015 was the inaugural year, with 8 top ads getting the award. BuzzFeedNews gives a summary of each one, many from other countries.

"The Varied Functions of Badges" summary from HASTAC discussion, 9/2012 My interest in the functions of badges was spurred along when the MacArthur Foundation asked for help documenting the design principles for using digital badges that emerge across the 30 projects underway by the awardees in their Badges for Lifelong Learning project. We needed to come up with a manageable number of categories. Here is what we came up with: Recognizing Learning. This is the most obvious and arguably the primary function of badges. David Wiley has argued cogently that this should be the primary purpose of badges. If we focus only on purposes, then he may well be right. His point is that badges are credentials and not assessments. This is also consistent with the terrifically concise definition in Seven Things You Should Know About Badgesby Erin Knight and Carla Casilli. Assessing Learning. Nearly every application of digital badges includes some form of assessment. These assessments have either formative or summative functions and likely have both. In some cases, these are simply an assessment of whether somebody clicked on a few things or made a few comments. In other cases, there might be a project or essay that was reviewed and scored, or a test that was graded. In still other cases, peers might assess an individual, group, or project as badgeworthy. Motivating Learning. This is where the controversy comes in. Much of the debate over badges concerns the well-documented negative consequences of extrinsic incentive on intrinsic motivation and free choice engagement. This is why some argue that we should not use badges to motivate learning. However, if we use badges to recognize and assess learning, they are likely to impact motivation. So, we might as well harness this crucial function of badges and study these functions carefully while searching for both their positive and negative consequences for motivation. Evaluating Learning. The final category of

excellent infographic summary of Leading with Intent 2014, A National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices, BoardSource

capacity building paper for nonprofits by grantmakers for effective organizations

Interesting and accurate summary IMO by Rob Paterson of how work, jobs, and taking charge of your own professional development are changing. Either they have been listening to us, or more likely, we have been reading them! :-) Offers an e-book for $2.99 titled You Don't Need a Job, You Need a Trust Network by Robert Paterson

Absolutely remarkable summary of how learning has changed by Jane Hart, June 2014.

nice summary slide program on what AND men can do to help foster equality in the workplace

nice summary of what it takes to create a networked learning organization. Harold Jarche, May 6, 2015

One page summary of the WIOA

side by side of the old WIA and new WIOA law. Good summary of changes of services and delivery systems. Emphasis on coordination by Workforce Investment boards. Chart compiled by the National Skills Coalition.

A great summary of why social media presence (LinkedIn, blogging for work and privately) is so important in the search for employment. Blog post by Irene McConell, June 22, 2014

Future Work Skills Summary by the 2011 Institute for the Future for University of Phoenix Research Institute. All Rights Reserved. Phenomenal graphic on key drivers pushing the development of key job skills in 8 areas. Key drivers include extreme longevity, computational world, superstructed organizations, globally-connected world, new media ecology, rise of smart machines and systems.