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Lisa Levinson

What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace? - The New York Times - 0 views

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    From the NYT March 19, 2016 Behaviors of millennials in the workplace: social sharing of everything is the norm, they have to be inspired to work, they text people sitting next to them rather than talk directly, and have no boundaries between work and personal life.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

What Digital Nomads Know That You Don't (Yet) - Forbes - 0 views

  • Money is about experiences, not material things
  • Honor the path you’re on, not someone else’s path
  • You don’t have to sacrifice money for happiness
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    how millennials do their work from wherever they are in the world, Jules Schroeder, author in the Under 30 section of Forbes
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

12 Critical Competencies For Leadership in the Future - By Tanmay Vora - Linkis.com - 0 views

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    Article by Tanmay Vora, January 2016 on VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, complex & ambiguous) Traditional hierarchical structures are fading away to give way to purposeful networks and communities of people working together to achieve a shared purpose. The cumulative impact of these forces demands a new mindset and competences for leaders to be able to stay relevant and make a positive difference to people and hence, business.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Women Who Do This Are Less Likely to Get Ahead - Fortune - Linkis.com - 0 views

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    article by Jennifer Knickerbocker, new Deloitte partner, talking about the importance of sponsors/mentors to moving into greater leadership positions, communicating authentically, and holding to their beliefs/recommendations, Fortune, February 2016
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How Can Students Use Twitter For Research? - EdTechReview™ (ETR) - 0 views

  • Just tweet a question with proper hashtags and see the response. If you are having good number of followers
  • Search for good sources
  • Find the experts and scholars in the related field
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    some good ideas on using Twitter for research, Bhaskar Santosh
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

33 Twitter Tips to Enhance Your Academic Research - OnlineCollege.org - 0 views

  • Build a professional network. Twitter is a great place to connect with others in your field
  • Use hashtags.
  • Share your work.
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    good article on importance of twitter to academic researchers
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Twitter has a lot to offer academics! | BU Research Blog - 0 views

  • Twitter is brilliant for keeping up with things, networking, finding new ideas, people’s blogs and publications
  • Twitter useful for augmenting F2F academic conferences, extending the conversations
  • Keeps me up-to-the-minute with news in my field ie; policy issues, and connects me to conferences/other academics
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    list of reasons offered by academics on why Twitter is useful to them, February 19, 2012, Julie Northam 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

What the *Tweet*? Social Media for Grad Students by Melonie Fullick on Prezi - 0 views

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    Nice Prezi on using twitter by Melonie A. Fullick melonie.a.fullick@gmail.com 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

This is the Future of Work...and What It Means for Your Career | Sallie Krawcheck | Lin... - 0 views

  • First, get past the mourning
  • the key traits for success will be curiosity, an open-mindedness, an intellectual flexibility, an interest in understanding others’ perspectives.
  • Secondly, to successfully navigate a world of such change, you have to embrace a certain intellectual discomfort and a willingness to fail.
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  • t it’s important to “play in traffic.
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    good essay by Sallie Krawcheck on changing careers, leadership traits, getting in the traffic to understand the industry you are moving into, etc.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

What Slack is doing to our offices-and our minds | Ars Technica - 0 views

  • experimenting with bringing social media into the workplace for years.
  • company-wide social network called Beehive, w
  • "enterprise social media" system called WaterCooler.
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  • their employees spontaneously started building wikis to document important discoveries and share scientific information.
  • They are replacing offices entirely. For people who work in virtual teams, apps like Slack are the workplace.
  • social media works in the office when it brings like-minded colleagues together for collaboration.
  • But when you work on a virtual team, your choice is either adopt the new software or stop coming to work. In other words, there is no real choice. You have to accept the new platform, regardless of the changes it brings
  • The one user survey the company has conducted, however, shows that the majority of Slack administrators believe their teams are up to 40 percent more productive.
  • Slack founder Stewart Butterfield has said the boost in productivity comes from eliminating e-mail, but Henderson scoffs at that idea. He thinks Slack teams are more productive because they can communicate better. Plus, they can catch up on what's happened while they were gone because conversations are held in searchable logs. Most of all, he says, Slack is about stepping up productivity by "reducing meetings." That's the "big one," Henderson emphasizes.
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    great review of impact of Slack group chat tool on offices and productivity, Annalee Newitz, March 9, 2016.  
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

GO REBOOT YOURSELF: Get a Grip on Your Tech | SXSW 2016 Event Schedule - 0 views

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    Beth Kanter's and Aliza Sherman's workshop at SXSW conference on attention, March 2016, good slideshow
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

7 lessons nonprofits can learn from newborn babies / Nonprofit With Balls - 0 views

  • By the way, last week, I launched two peer support groups on Facebook. Nonprofit Happy Hour already has over 1,300 members, and the group specifically for EDs/CEOs, ED Happy Hour, has over 200 members. These are great forums for when you have a problem and want to get advice from colleagues. Check them out.
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    announcement on peer support groups on Facebook for Nonprofit staff members and EDs of nonprofits
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

ED Happy Hour - 0 views

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    example of nonprofit group on Facebook set up by Vu Le, who writes Nonprofits with Balls blog--closed but with over 200 members
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

https://www.accenture.com/t20160303T014010__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/PDF-9/Accenture-IWD-201... - 0 views

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    new study on how digital fluency has great potential for closing gender gap for women, March 2016.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Getting to Equal: How Digital is Helping Close the Gender Gap at Work- Accenture research - 0 views

  • accelerant in every stage of a person’s career—a powerful one in education and in the workplace, and an increasingly important one as they advance into the ranks of leadership.
  • Digital fluency is helping today’s workers better manage their time and become more productive.
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    introduction to new Accenture study on importance of digital fluency in education, workplace, and in leadership
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

Writing Skills | SkillsYouNeed - 0 views

  • when anyone can be their own publisher, we see more and more examples of poor writing skills both in print and on the web.  Poor writing skills create poor first impressions and many readers will have an immediate negative reaction if they spot a spelling or grammatical mistake
  • Writing in the Workplace
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    Skillsyouneed stresses good writing skills
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Digital Skills in the Workplace | SkillsYouNeed - 0 views

  • There are programs and services you can use to make sure that you make the most out of your computer. Having a computer desktop that you can navigate quickly and efficiently is fast becoming more important than having a tidy desk.
  • digital literacy as ‘the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet’6. By this definition, digital skills are any skills related to being digitally literate. Anything from the ability to find out your high-score on Minesweeper to coding a website counts as a digital skill.
  • What Digital Skills do I Need for the Modern Workplace?
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  • Marketing, customer service, retail, managing, writing and selling are all jobs associated with these keywords and all of those jobs could well require digital skills.
  • digital skillset is as wide as possible for future needs.
  • journalists to research, plan, write, proofread and send an article to a publisher all using their mobile phone or tablet.
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    blog post written by Phillip Burton for skillsyouneed.com, apparently a British company.  
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How to Build Good Habits - 0 views

  • Goals should be the big picture items that you wish to someday accomplish. Your quotas on the other hand are the minimum amounts of work that you must get done every single day to make it a reality.
  • Professor Fogg’s entire system on Tiny Habits is built around this principle that it’s better to set micro quotas to get out of the analysis phase and right into the action:
  • An “Ahscrewit!” moment is any specific instance where you throw your arms up in the air and say, “Screw this, it’s not worth the effort!”
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  • “analysis paralysis,” or
  • Identify where exactly ‘getting started’ falls apart for you and try to create shortcuts so that the uncomfortable moment is lessened,
  • For those “what the hell moments,” some startlingly simple advice is to just focus on the total days you’ve done your habit, rather than the fact that you broke the chain.
  • Making too many decisions is a part of this problem: Baumeister’s research on mental energy suggests that acts of self-control and self-regulation deplete mental resources in future activities.
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    by Gregory Ciotti, good tips and research links on building good habits
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Easy Reading Is Damn Hard Writing - 0 views

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    Gregory Ciotti on writing well--great tips
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