Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CLAWS (Friday, 10/1/99)
What? Me work? CLAWS stands for "Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery" and is dedicated to finding viable ways of getting out of what they regard as a destructive and counterproductive mindset.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business History On-Line (Saturday, 10/2/99)
Business History On-Line is an on-line newsletter from the Business History Conference and is delivered to you from Michigan State University.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A.T. Kearney (Sunday, 10/2/99)
A.T. Kearney is a major management consultant firm. Their web site is filled with interesting information.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Shipley Online Profiles (Monday, 10/4/99)
Here's a description of Dr. Charles Margerison's career-related software..

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: What America Earns (Tuesday, 10/5/99)
Louis Uchitelle and Karl Russell help you make salary comparisons in a number of major U.S. cities across a number of occupational categories.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: MacTutor History of Mathematics (Wednesday, 10/6/99)
Over and over, mathematics has enabled the transformation of the world. For example, the modern world probably would not have been possible without the calculus, which was invented (discovered?) independently by Germany's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and England's Isaac Newton in the 17th century. Currently, statistics probably should be one of the basic academic requirements for all college students, given the tremendous number of things all around us which are inherently statistical. Finally, of course, quantitative thinking is central to the entire information age which much of the world has already entered. If you're wondering who to thank for all those magical and wonderfully useful ideas, from Scotland, here's the MacTutor History of Mathematics which includes brief biographies of 1,000 mathematicians.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for Applied Special Technology (Thursday, 10/7/99)
High-technology offers a variety of exciting possibilities for improving the lives of persons with disabilities, and the Center for Applied Special Technology is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to facilitate processes toward that end.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Partnership of Women Entrepreneurs (Friday, 10/8/99)
Many women in business support each other through the Partnership of Women Entrepreneurs. Their web site offers resources and an on-line newsletter with a large collection of articles in their archives.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Monster Talent Market (Saturday, 10/9/99)
One of the largest jobs sites on the web now attempts to help independent professionals, free agents, consultants, and contractors find people who need their services. Here's the Monster Talent Market.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Geographic Society (Sunday, 10/10/99)
Homo sapiens sapiens have spent most of the past 40,000 years or so in relatively small groups mostly isolated from one another. Now, though, with jet travel, relatively inexpensive international telephone service, and, most of all, the Internet, the world has become a very small place, in effect, and most of us will be living in the whole thing every day, rather than our own tiny piece of it, during the 21st century. Under these circumstances, it should be harder to be provincial and bigoted, although it's easy to underestimate human capacity for these things. Still, globalization is a fact, in life as well as in work, and we may as well familiarize ourselves with regions far from where we were born. The National Geographic Society's web site is a good place to begin. Careful, though. You can easily get sucked in and end up neglecting nearly everything else. If you need more, the complete contents of more than a hundred years of National Geographic magazine is available on CD-ROM.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workforce Online (Monday, 10/11/99)
Workforce Online offers tons of news and information for professionals in the human resources field.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Lifelong Learning (Tuesday, 10/12/99)
Lifelong Learning is a service of the lifelong learning project that focuses on the Asia Pacific region. The site comes from Ontario.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators (Wednesday, 10/13/99)
Who teaches the teachers? Some of them are members of the National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators, an organization that has been in existence for more than 60 years.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: No Sweat (Thursday, 10/14/99)
No Sweat is a program from the United States Department of Labor intending to help eliminate sweatshop conditions for American workers.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Trade Organization (Friday, 10/15/99)
The World Trade Organization is in the news a lot. If you would like to know more about the international organization through which rules for trade among nations are established, here's your chance.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Academy for Chief Executives (Saturday, 10/16/99)
Top executives can learn from each other through the Academy for Chief Executives.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: UMUC's Distance Learning (Sunday, 10/17/99)
Look who's offering full undergraduate and post-graduate programs on the Internet now. It's the University of Maryland's famed University College, and they've been sending itinerant professors to Americans over much of the globe for a half century.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Smithsonian: Engineering and Industry (Monday, 10/18/99)
"America's attic" can offer some perspective on the history of technology and its commercial development on the Smithsonian's Engineering and Industry site. Incidentally, science came first, then technology, right? No, technology is many thousands of years older than science. Modern humans began using their knowledge of nature as a basis for building useful devices tens of thousands of years ago, and, despite its Classical Greek roots, modern science goes back only a few hundred years. The difference is that during most of mankind's history, technology has been based on nature as understood from the limited perspective of daily life and what appeared to be "common sense" on how nature works. But, nature doesn't care about common sense, and an understanding of its more subtle aspects is not available from the limited perspective of daily life. The technology revolutions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have arisen from the much deeper understanding of natural process that can come from controlled experimentation.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Companies Online (Tuesday, 10/19/99)
Companies Online provides information about more than 100,000 private and public companies in the United States.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Encyclopedia Britannica (Wednesday, 10/20/99)
Thomas Jefferson was still in his twenties when the Encyclopedia Britannica started. It still makes most other encyclopedias seem like toys, but the market for very expensive sets of bound volumes has softened considerably during recent years as a consequence of the information revolution. The fact that the Encyclopedia Britannica is now available free online may or may not turn out to be good news for its publisher, but it's certainly good news for everybody else.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (Thursday, 10/21/99)
Among many other things, the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration offers an international MBA in English.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Campus International (Friday, 10/22/99)
Campus International helps students find internships throughout much of the world and also helps organizations that need interns.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (Saturday, 10/23/99)
Among other things, workforce development professionals have had to cope with the changes brought on by the Workforce Investment Act. The Association of Workforce Development Professionals provides a voice for workers in the field and is also an instrument through which they support and assist each other.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CareerBookstore.com (Sunday, 10/24/99)
There is no shortage of places to buy books, including books about careers and career planning. However, CareerBookstore.com is one online bookstore that specializes in this genre.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Career Planning Center for Beginning Scientists and Engineers (Monday, 10/25/99)
If you're an engineer, the principal non-technical skill you need right now may simply be to run fast enough to keep from being trampled by employers wanting to hire you. If you're a scientist, the ease with which you can find a suitable job will depend on a variety of factors, including your field of specialty. The National Academy of Sciences, with financial help from the Sloan Foundation, offers both scientists and engineers a one-stop service. Here's A Career Planning Center for Beginning Scientists and Engineers.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Guide to Effective Resume Writing (Tuesday, 10/26/99)
A Guide to Effective Resume Writing is what it says it is.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EduPoint.com (Wednesday, 10/27/99)
EduPoint.com can help you find courses and educational programs in your region which may be of special interest to working adults.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The International Council on Social Welfare (Thursday, 10/28/99)
The International Council on Social Welfare works closely with various UN agencies in 70 countries and has been in existence since 1928.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Home Office Association of America (Friday, 10/29/99)
In addition to its brutality and irrationality about a lot of things, one factor that helped doom the old Soviet Union was that it was a TOTALitarian society, with the emphasis on "total." The state allowed no social organization which it did not control and interpreted any effort to organize outside of state control as a challenge to governmental authority. Among other things, this meant that some few people had to think that they were smart enough to plan and manage every aspect of a huge society, which, if it were not so serious, would be hilarious. In actual fact, complex societies largely "run themselves," and, in fact, this is the only way they can operate successfully in the long-run. The market system, controlled by Adam Smith's "invisible hand," is part of this, but complex modern societies include a tremendous number of organizations of all types. There are organizations covering every imaginable interest. So, for instance, is there an organization of people interested in operating home offices? Need you ask? It is the Home Office Association of America, and the government hasn't a single thing to do with it.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Eurostat: Statistical Office of the European Communities (Saturday, 10/30/99)
Where do members of the European Union get their statistics? Eurostat: Statistical Office of the European Communities compiles, consolidates, and organizes data from the fifteen member states in order to provide a "big-picture" perspective.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EconLIT (Sunday, 10/31/99)
EconLIT is an economics literature bibliography from the American Economics Association.

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