December 1999 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: eLance (Wednesday, 12/1/99)
Want to provide free-lance services that can be delivered at a distance, or are you looking for someone to provide those kinds of services? eLance is a new kind of marketplace specializing in work that can be done nearly anyplace on the planet so long as you have an electronic connection.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: BEGIN (Thursday, 12/2/99)
BEGIN is Brooklyn College's program for helping people make the transition from welfare to work.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Federation of International Trade Associations (Friday, 12/3/99)
The International Trade - Import-Export Portal is a service of the Federation of International Trade Associations, a network of 300,000 companies belonging to 300 international trade associations.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: BridgePath Newsletter (Saturday, 12/4/99)
BridgePath assists recruiters and also publishes a weekly career-related newsletter that is distributed to 150,000 subscribers under the editorship of Mel Ochoa. Previous editions are available right here.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workforce Online (Sunday, 12/5/99)
Workforce magazine has been a major resource for persons working in the human resource field for a long time. It's made a nice transition to the web with Workforce Online.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of International Trade (Monday, 12/6/99)
Even if you're one of the "little guys" in business, it doesn't necessarily mean that you can't export your products and participate in the global economy. The SBA wants to help through their Office of International Trade.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: eCollegebid (Tuesday, 12/7/99)
Tell how much you're willing to pay for a college education, and members of a consortium of colleges and universities will let you know whether they're willing to accept your offer at eCollegebid.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: i-Resign (Wednesday, 12/8/99)
i-Resign offers advice on how to quit your job as well as other things. Included are also some clever letters of resignation, some by well-known persons.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The American Society of Indexers (Thursday, 12/9/99)
The American Society of Indexers is a national organization of knowledge management professionals who do indexing, abstracting, and build databases. The site also tells you about the history of knowledge management, all the way back to AD 79. That happens to have been the year Mount Vesuvius blew up and buried Pompeii and Herculaneum. Of course, that doesn't have a whole lot to do with anything, but, if you're into knowledge management, it's just a bit more knowledge to manage. No extra charge.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Federal Trade Commission (Friday, 12/10/99)
The American Federal Trade Commission is a government agency that sees its role as helping markets function competitively, free of undue restrictions. It does this by enforcing federal antitrust and consumer protection laws, among other things.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Wyoming Job Network (Saturday, 12/11/99)
According to the latest studies, there are literally tens of thousands of web sites that list jobs. The Wyoming Job Network is one which concentrates on opportunities in this western state, offers training information, and a good deal more.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Peace Corps (Sunday, 12/12/99)
Since 1961, more than 150,000 Peace Corps volunteers have served in a total of 134 countries around the world. Young people often find that Peace Corps service can help them sort out their long-term career goals and acquire valuable perspective on the "real world" outside their own mostly privileged communities. However, some Americans choose to serve following their retirement.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: AMA Seminars (Monday, 12/13/99)
Here are one- and two-day training seminars from the American Management Association.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Entrepreneurial Edge (Tuesday, 12/134/99)
On Entrepreneurial Edge, entrepreneurs learn from each other and share.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for International Health Information (Wednesday, 12/15/99)
The Center for International Health Information provides a variety of technical and analytical services to support USAID programs throughout the world.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Commercial Law League of America (Thursday, 12/16/99)
The Commercial Law League of America has been providing professional services to the credit industry for more than a century. On their site, you will find information relevant to collections, bankruptcy, and more.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Embark (Friday, 12/17/99)
Embark offers LOTS of help with college, including how to find the right one, how to help the right one find you, and how to cope with academic life once you and your dream school have found each other.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: British Airways Travel Clinics (Saturday, 12/18/99)
If you plan to travel for business or pleasure, you may have good reason to be concerned about health issues. The British Airways Travel Clinics can alert you to hazards that await you at a variety of destinations and what you can do about them.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Biz/ed (Sunday, 12/19/99)
Biz/ed provides resources and services for students and teachers in business and economics and comes to you from the United Kingdom.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economics and Philosophy (Monday, 12/20/99)
Economics and Philosophy is an academic journal published in the UK under the direction of a multi-national editorial board. The journal looks like an interesting effort to link the two fields, but their web site doesn't offer a great deal of information, except that you can apply for a free copy. One page lists what apparently are supposed to be links to tables of contents of previous editions but aren't. They're not links, that is. Economics and Philosophy is published twice per year.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: OZJAC (Tuesday, 12/21/99)
OZJAC is from Australia and produces software that can enable you to match courses with jobs with the needs of employers.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School (Wednesday, 12/22/99)
The Avalon Project is a large collection of primary documents not focusing on economics, but many are of economics relevance.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Explorations in Social Inequality (Thursday, 12/23/99)
Sociologist Michael Kearl of Trinity University offers an overview of social inequality with numerous links to statistics and research. Where is Trinity University? San Antonio, Texas USA.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Great Depression Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum (Friday, 12/24/99)
We're in the last few days of the 1900s, so it may be a good time to try to put some of the principal events of the 20th century into perspective. Among those principal events certainly was the Great Depression of the 1930s. Here is a virtual tour of the Depression Gallery at the Michigan Historical Museum.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Quintessential Careers (Sunday, 12/26/99)
Quintessential Careers originally was started with the job-seeking needs of college students in mind by a professor at Florida's Stetson University. Now, it has a broader mission, intending to serve job-seekers of all types who are interested, not simply in jobs, but in building careers. Incidentally, does Stetson University have anything to do with hats? Well, sort of. Back in the 19th century, its founder named it after his friend of Stetson hats fame, but that's about all.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business Communications (Monday, 12/27/99)
Here's help getting your message across. It's the Business Communications page from SBS, which stands for " Smart Business Supersite."

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Resume Malaysia (Tuesday, 12/28/99)
There are tens of thousands of job sites on the Internet. Many have become more specialized either with respect to occupational categories or industries or with respect to geographical regions. Resume Malaysia is what it sounds like, so long as you understand that "resume" in this case refers to the thing you send to a prospective employer when you're applying for a job, not meaning that Malaysia is starting up again. Some accent marks aren't easy on the web.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Intel in Education (Wednesday, 12/29/99)
High-technology corporations have a vested interest in the effectiveness of the educational system and many are involved in one way or another. Intel's Andy Grove has talked a lot about the need to upgrade American education at all levels, and his company supports a number of initiatives, including ones in workforce development. Here's Intel in Education.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Electric Library, Business Edition (Thursday, 12/30/99)
For subscribers, the Electric Library offers unlimited access to millions of business documents of all types. A free 30-day trial is available.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Union Communications Services (Friday, 12/31/99)
Union Communications Services offers help to union leaders. More than 1,500 unions use their services, they say.

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