November 1999 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bigdough.com (Monday, 11/1/99)
Bigdough.com is a big deal for persons wanting information about thousands of portfolio managers at thousands of financial institutions. It's a very large searchable database. It costs, though.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SalaryMaster (Tuesday, 11/2/99)
Movie stars have agents. Big-time sports stars have agents who will negotiate for them. Now, if you're a hi-tech professional, there are people who will negotiate to help you get the highest possible salary. For instance, there is SalaryMaster.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: AIRS (Wednesday, 11/3/99)
AIRS stands for "Advanced Internet Recruitment Strategies" and provides training to recruiters on how to use the Internet effectively to locate and hire highly qualified people in an extremely competitive market.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Barclays' Chronologies (Thursday, 11/5/99)
The famous London-based bank makes a contribution to economics education by making available a chronological list of events that have affected the UK as well as the international economy. These start with the last quarter of 1997 and extend to the present, and will be updated from now on..

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fortune 500 Sites (Saturday, 11/6/99)
The Fortune 500 is a list of the largest industrial corporations compiled each year by Fortune magazine. Most of these have their own web sites. Here's a list for the Fortune 500 Sites from America Online.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business History Review (Sunday, 11/7/99)
Raise your hand if you know about the Harvard Business Review. Well, never mind--of course you do. But, do you know about their Business History Review? It's a quarterly containing original research from leading scholars who are well-prepared to help the rest of us gain valuable historical perspective on all we see happening around us.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Carlson School of Management (Monday, 11/8/99)
The Carlson School of Management has a very Minnesotan name that comes from the man who provided much of the money to support the development of the University of Minnesota's premier business school.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Ask the Headhunter (Tuesday, 11/9/99)
The people behind this site believe that the American employment system if broken and that you're highly likely to believe things about job hunting and hiring which are no longer true. Ask the Headhunter offers inside information and helpful advice, they say.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: JobSwarm.com (Wednesday, 11/10/99)
JobSwarm.com is networking on the net for free-lancers and persons interested in obtaining their services.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Development Studies Network (Thursday, 11/11/99)
Development Studies Network is a nonprofit organization from Australia that promotes the study and discussion of social and economic development on a global scale.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Data on the Net (Friday, 11/12/99)
If you like statistics, economic and otherwise, the University of San Diego can help you find what you're looking for. Check out Data on the Net, free on the web.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Covey Leadership Center (Saturday, 11/13/99)
Among the principal changes in the new work world have been the decline of hierarchy, close supervision, and narrow span of control, as skill levels have increased and professionals more heavily populate front-line work roles. But, what holds a new-economy work organization together? Without close supervision, how can you be sure everybody's singing off the same page in service of the same objectives? Increasingly, companies have been trying to deal with this problem by promoting the development of common values, and one way of doing this is to bring everybody together periodically for pep rallies or "secular capitalist revival meetings." Among the most popular "evangelists" for leading these meetings have been Steven Covey, Tom Peters, and Peter Senge. All are featured at the Covey Leadership Center.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America's Job Bank (Sunday, 11/14/99)
The United States Department of Labor brings its enormous database to the Internet to give employers and job seekers access to each other and to many other resources. The service has been available for a long time, but the America's Job Bank web site is relatively new, and it makes all sorts of additional things possible in the revolutionary new world economy.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Occupational Outlook Handbook (Monday, 11/15/99)
The Occupational Outlook Handbook has long been a staple in academic libraries and college career centers for those wanting to benefit from government occupational forecasts. Now, it's available on-line too, and it comes to you from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor

.Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SEACnet (Tuesday, 11/16/99)
SEACnet illustrates how the web can be used effectively to get students and employers together. It comes from a consortium of twenty-one Southeastern American universities that enroll about 400,000 students distributed over hundreds of courses of study.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Labor Organization (Wednesday, 11/17/99)
The International Labor Organization was a creation of the Treaty of Versailles following the end of World War I, so it predates the United Nations, of which it is now a part. The ILO now has 174 member countries and works to advance humanitarian and economic goals. The ILO was a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969 on the 50th anniversary of its creation.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Futurework (Thursday, 11/18/99)
There are tens of thousands of so-called "newsgroups" and mailing lists on the Internet. One of the most interesting relating to the new work world is Futurework, which is headquartered at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Community Network (Friday, 11/19/99)
Want to locate your company in exactly the right community selected according to multiple criteria? American Community Network and its new search engine may be able to help you make the proper selection.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ase.net (Saturday, 11/20/99)
If you're a business traveler, the ase.net search engine can help you find more than 41,000 places throughout the world to lay your weary head at the end of a busy day.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: fastSEARCH (Sunday, 11/21/99)
fastSEARCH is a free service to help you locate just the right college scholarship.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Jobs (Monday, 11/22/99)
There are many job posting sites on the web, and American Jobs is one of them. It's a very large site, though. Employers pay to post job openings. Job-seekers post resumes free.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Outsourcing Academics (Tuesday, 11/23/99)
Outsourcing Academics is a collection of articles on outsourcing from academic professionals at universities throughout the world.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: People Management (Wednesday, 11/24/99)
The Institute of Personnel and Development has 90,000 members, and, among many other things, published People Management in print and on the web. It's one of the leading publications in the UK for those interested in issues relating to human resources.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Jobs Research Website (Thursday, 11/25/99)
The Jobs Research Website, like its companion publication, The Jobs Letter, is a product of New Zealand's Jobs Research Trust. Both have been designed by vivian Hutchinson, who edits The Jobs Letter, and is one of New Zealand's leading authorities on employment and living standards. The Jobs Research Website is the recipient of the 1999 Media Peace Award from The Peace Foundation of New Zealand.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Learning Organizations Homepage (Friday, 11/26/99)
A professor at the State University of New York at Albany has put together a good starting point for persons interested in organization development, most particularly the concept of the "learning organization."

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CollegeSkills (Saturday, 11/27/99)
Those who want to get the most out of their time in college may find some help here. CollegeSkills is aimed at current and prospective college students.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Capitalism: Frequently Asked Questions (Sunday, 11/28/99)
Someone named Houman Shadab who seems near, but not necessarily affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley makes a case for laissez-faire capitalism while making no effort to conceal a clear point-of-view. Among the suggested references are books by authors such as Ayn Rand and Henry Hazlitt, which, by themselves, might suggest what that point-of-view is. We don't know how frequently these questions are actually asked, but the answers are fairly interesting, and, with free-trade protesters already being arrested in Seattle as representatives from the majority of the world's nations gather for the big WTO meeting, we thought it might be a good time to saunter over very familiar ground. The global economy seems genuinely new in a variety of ways, but many of the arguments about capitalism and free-trade are not.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: OneKnowledge.com (Monday, 11/29/99)
OneKnowledge.com sells books online, but it differs from most of the others in that it specializes in books about doing business in the new economy.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Asia-Europe Dialogue: Globalization (Tuesday, 11/30/99)
Here's an examination of some of the implications of globalization from the perspective of a foundation closely allied with Germany's Green Party.

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