Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 8 Myths about the Millennium Bug (Saturday, 1/2/99)
In less than a year, something is going to happen, but nobody seems to be sure what it will be. Oh, of course, something's going to happen. Lots of things are going to happen. But, will civilization crumble because of the Y2K bug? Well, no. It's probably safe to commit yourself a two-year subscription to your favorite magazine. The Y2K problem is real, but there's also a lot of silliness circulating about it. CNET identifies 8 Myths about the Millennium Bug.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: I Want a New Job (Sunday, 1/3/99)
There are a great many web sites intending to help you find a job or to help employers find workers. I Want a New Job is one of them. However, the site includes additional features, including a "salary calculator" to help you decide what you may be worth to a new employer, and a "training directory" to help you find classes to fit your needs.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce (Monday, 1/4/99)
A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce is the Clinton administration's proposal for encouraging the development of commerce on the Internet, although as 1999 begins, it doesn't appear that it will need much additional encouragement. E-biz quickly is becoming a major part of the revolutionary new world information economy. Care to speculate about the employment consequences?

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Idea Central (Tuesday, 1/5/99)
Idea Central is an online magazine dealing with economics and politics. Originally started by Robert Reich, former United States Secretary of Labor.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Overseas Jobs Express (Wednesday, 1/6/99)
Overseas Jobs Express may be able to help you find employment in many locations throughout the world. The site includes access to hundreds of international job resources.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: United States Department of Agriculture (Thursday, 1/7/99)
Agriculture as a business, as opposed to subsistence farming, has always been very risky, with long-term survival anything but assured. Recent governmental deregulation of American agriculture occurred at about the same time that American farmers began to experience the unfamiliar consequences of being part of the new global economy. A worldwide glut of many agricultural products has led to historically low market prices, and a major portion of American farmers are finding their businesses threatened. The USDA is the federal agency that deals with the small but critically important agricultural sector. It has been in the news a lot lately because of a discrimination suit brought against it by black farmers too. Here's the United States Department of Agriculture's web site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The World's Economic Outlook (Friday, 1/8/99)
This isn't quite what it might appear to be. Oh, yes, it is an examination of the world's economy, but not from the perspective of 1999. Instead, The World's Economic Outlook is a classic article written by John Maynard Keynes in 1932 and published in the Atlantic Monthly. Keynes' ideas about fiscal policy led to responses ranging from "We can't spend ourselves rich" toward the beginning to "We're all Keynsians now" years later. Very recently, American officials and others have been advocating a more vigorous Keynsian approach to stimulating the Japanese economy.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Educause (Saturday, 1/9/99)
The Educause web site is a major resource for those interested in information technology and higher education.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Investment Promotion Network (Sunday, 1/10/99)
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, which is affiliated with the World Bank, maintains a database on business opportunities in 150 countries. Here's the International Investment Promotion Network.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ICOHTEC (Monday, 1/11/99)
Given its importance in the revolutionary new world economy, many people are interested in putting technology into historical perspective on a global scale. The International Committee for the History of Technology contains some of these people from many countries. This organization had its origins in the Cold War, but has extended itself right on into the new era.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless (Tuesday, 1/12/99)
54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless is a full-length book by Rabbi Charles A Kroloff, and the whole manuscript is available on the web, as well as in a conventional bound version. Rabbi Kroloff's suggestions have been endorsed by former President Jimmy Carter.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CIO: The Web Career Research Center (Wednesday, 1/13/99)
From CIO Online, a publication for information executives, here are job openings and articles having to do with web careers. It's CIO Online's Web Career Research Center.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Senior Law (Thursday, 1/14/99)
Is there a legal specialty having to do with the needs and circumstances of older people? There is indeed, and it's called "elderlaw." A New York law firm, Goldfarb & Abrandt, maintains Senior Law on the web where you can find information on legal issues having to do with Medicare, Medicaid, estate planning, trusts, the rights of the elderly and disabled, and much more.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Business Education Association (Friday, 1/15/99)
Here's a national professional organization for those who work to educate people for business in the new economy. It's national convention is held in the spring, so will be coming up soon. Here's the National Business Education Association.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Japan Information Access Project (Saturday, 1/16/99)
Despite its current problems, Japan's economy remains the second-largest in the world, and people the world over have a stake in how well the Japanese do in the new economy. If you would like to know more about Japanese business, technology, and more, the Japan Information Access Project, a Washington, D.C.-based "think tank," may be able to help.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tax and Accounting Sites Directory (Sunday, 1/17/99)
Now that you're beginning to think about April 15 again, you may also be wondering where you can find information about taxes. There are an awfully lot of tax sites on the web, and Professor Dennis Schmidt at the University of Northern Iowa is willing to point you in the direction of dozens and dozens of them. Check his Tax and Accounting Sites Directory.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Innonet's Entrepreneur Test (Monday, 1/18/99)
Given the decrease in job security and permanence, many people are deciding that, if they're going to have to accept risks an insecurity anyway, they may as well have the potential benefits of running their own businesses. Are you an "entrepreneur type?" Innonet from Switzerland may help you decide with their Entrepreneur Test. Has it been researched to determine if it is statistically reliable and valid? We don't know.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Journal of Poverty (Tuesday, 1/19/99)
The Journal of Poverty advocates a broader understanding of the concept of poverty than has been in prominent use in the United States during recent years, not limited to insufficient financial resources, but with social and political dimensions as well as economic.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Directory of Economic, Commodity and Development Organizations (Wednesday, 1/20/99)
The Directory of Economic, Commodity and Development Organizations is about what it sounds like, and comes from the International Monetary Fund. Links to web sites maintained by the organizations are organized alphabetically.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Careers of the future: Working on the Web (Thursday, 1/21/99)
CNET is a major hi-tech information source on the web and offers advice on how to turn the exploding Internet phenomenon into a career opportunity for yourself. Here's CNET's Careers of the future: Working on the Web.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Hot Resume How To's (Friday, 1/22/99)
There are many places where you can post your resume on the web. Here's some advice from the creator of one of them: The Monster Board. His article comes to you via Excite, which also offers 25 tips for creating effective electronic resumes.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Hoover's Online (Saturday, 1/23/99)
If you'd like some information about a particular company, Hoover's Online may be a must. And, if you're in the market for a job, their Career Center may be especially helpful.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: HeadHunter.net (Sunday, 1/24/99)
HeadHunter.net claims nearly 200,000 job listings on their site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bizy Moms (Monday, 1/25/99)
For mothers who would like to start a business at home, here's information, advice, and a variety of other resources. Here's Bizy Moms.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Legal Handbook for Nonprofit Corporation Volunteers (Tuesday, 1/26/99)
If you do volunteer work for a nonprofit, you may have wondered about your legal liability and other issues. A Legal Handbook for Nonprofit Corporation Volunteers is a book-length guide from attorney James D. DeWitt. A printed version is also available.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Translators Society (Wednesday, 1/27/99)
It's one world, and, increasingly, it's a single global economy, but it still contains a tremendous number of languages in common daily use. With people from all over the world working together or engaging in business transactions, there is a great need for professional translators. In the United States, many of them belong to the American Translators Society.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: TAP: The Ada Project (Thursday, 1/28/99)
If you seek Internet resources for women in computer science, seek them here. This is The Ada Project, and it comes to you from Yale University.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Retirement Worksheets (Friday, 1/29/99)
How much will you need to save in order to retire comfortably? The Wall Street Journal organization offers help in making the necessary calculations with their Retirement Worksheets.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Students for Responsible Business (Saturday, 1/30/99)
Students for Responsible Business is an international network of the next generation of business leaders with an interest in using business to create a better world, socially, environmentally, and otherwise.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Demographics Magazine (Sunday, 1/31/99)
What could be more significant for life in the new century than current demographic trends? American Demographics Magazine presents a tremendous number of their articles on line, free, but, if interested, they hope you will subscribe to the print edition.

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