August 2000 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Oanda's Currency Converter (Tuesday, 8/1/00)
For business travelers, the most interesting service on Oanda's revamped currency converter site may be the Foreign Exchange Cheat Sheet. Click on one currency and compare the results on more than 170 others.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Center for Working Families (Wednesday, 8/2/00)
If you're located in the greater San Francisco region, you might want to attend some of the live events presented by the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Working Families. If you're anyplace else, their web site is a good substitute.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: IBM Higher Education (Thursday, 8/3/00)
IBM expects the e-business market in higher education to become huge, as higher ed becomes transformed beyond recognition, and they want to be a big player. Here's IBM's higher education site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Kaplan College (Friday, 8/4/00)
Kaplan is a proprietary educational company best-known for its special programs for K-12 students and those wanting to attend college. However, the company has gotten involved in the development of online business training programs. Here's Kaplan College's programs in general business.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: MeansBusiness (Saturday, 8/5/00)
One indication of the genuine newness of the new economy is that old categories seem less viable than they used to. Resources are sliced and diced in new ways, and we're putting things together in new combinations when we think about them. MeansBusiness is an example of a creative effort to organize management resources in novel and more useful ways. The site offers thousands of excerpts from 400 business books from a dozen cooperating publishers, but there is much more.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Boston College Center for Work and Family (Sunday, 8/6/00)
Productivity in the American economy has been increasing during recent years, in part because America has learned how to make fuller and more effective use of high-technology, but also because of downsizing. Fewer people are needed to do the work, in part, because of the technology, but also because "survivors" are working more hours. Not only that, but the technology makes it harder to get away, because much work can be done anyplace and because you may always be accessible. Given these trends, many experts are concerned about the impact of work in the new economy on family life, and, by implication, the next generation. Some of these experts are at famed Boston College. Here's the Boston College Center for Work and Family. Click on "links" in order to get a look at statistics and research.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Crash of 1929 (Monday, 8/7/00)
Analysts have been examining the nature, causes, and consequences of the 20th century's biggest stock meltdown ever since it happened and continue to do so. If you're a little shaky on what happened and why, Floyd Norris of the New York Times can refresh your memory of what you may have learned in school in The Crash of 1929.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Quicken Retirement (Tuesday, 8/8/00)
Excite, the major Internet portal, and Quicken, makers of popular personal finance software, have gotten together to offer help with your retirement planning.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Capitalism.org (Wednesday, 8/9/00)
Want to defend capitalism but really don't know what to say? Capitalism.org will give you plenty of ammunition and arguments.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Hispanic Demographics (Thursday, 8/10/00)
We've already reported that many experts are saying that the future vitality of the American economy may depend on whether Hispanics in America are able to obtain education and training appropriate to the new economy's needs. For hints as to why this segment of the American population is so important to everybody, here are some Hispanic Demographics from the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers (Friday, 8/11/00)
Here's a place to start if you have a special interest in issues relating to Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers. The site comes to you from the Employment & Training Administration of the United States Department of Labor.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Half the Planet (Saturday, 8/12/00)
Half the Planet offers resources for persons with disabilities. The Abilities Fund is an affiliated organization that helps entrepreneurs with disabilities get started, whom Half the Planet's founder says have a much higher rate of success than entrepreneurs without disabilities.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Entrepreneurial Parent (Sunday, 8/13/00)
According to this site, 12 million Americans are both entrepreneurs and parents. The Entrepreneurial Parent offers help in achieving balance between family concerns and the special pressures of starting and running one's own business.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: United States Distance Learning Association (Monday, 8/14/00)
Here's a nationally organization that promotes the development of distance learning programs. However, the United States Distance Learning Association didn't arise because of the Internet. It was founded in the late 1980s.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Sweatshop Watch (Tuesday, 8/15/00)
Sweatshop Watch is centered in Oakland, California and may be among the highly varied groups protesting varied things at the major national political conventions this year.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: RAND's Labor and Population Program (Thursday, 8/17/00)
RAND is one of the original private "think tanks." It was established after World War II by Herman Kahn, who later founded The Hudson Institute. Here's RAND's Labor and Population Program which conducts empirical analysis on demographics and labor markets to guide decision-making and policy.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Word of Mouth (Friday, 8/18/00)
Word of Mouth allows you to use the Internet to greatly broaden your network of acquaintances for purposes of benefiting from their experience when you're looking for a local company with which to do business.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Jobs Letter (Saturday, 8/19/00)
For seven years, Vivian Huchinson's The Jobs Letter has been distributed free to selected individuals and organizations overseas, but has been sold by subscription within New Zealand itself. Now, the nonprofit organization founded by Mr. Huchinson for the purpose of exchanging information and promoting the creation of jobs in New Zealand has obtained sufficient funding to enable the free distribution of The Jobs Letter on the web, making it freely available to everyone, including citizens of New Zealand.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: AddALL (Sunday, 8/20/00)
It may be depressing to today's students, but many of their elders not only remember getting all the way through college, as well as graduate or professional school, without incurring any long-term debt. Not only that, but they may also remember spending about $40.00 for ALL the books for ALL their courses for a semester. Now, back to contemporary reality: AddALL can help with textbook searches and price comparisons on the Internet.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Unemployment Compensation Law (Monday, 8/21/00)
Here's an overview of Unemployment Compensation Law from the Legal Information Institute.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Artemis Management Consultants (Tuesday, 8/22/00)
California researcher Barbara Miller thinks we need to reconnect life and work, and, in fact, contributed to a Ford Foundation report a few years ago and life and work issues. She encourages executives to examine their traditional ideas about work through Artemis Management Consultants. There is much of potential interest to the non-executive on her web site as well.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EconWPA (Wednesday, 8/23/00)
EconWPA is a service of the Department of Economics at Washington University. It provides free distribution of working papers in economics. Given the high cost of conventional publishing, we might expect that the Internet will become the principle means by which scholars in virtually all fields will share ideas and research information. Some academic journals now have subscriptions rates that are somewhere in the stratosphere. The problem is that they must have very high-quality printing and binding if they are to survive on university library shelves for generations. This, combined with short press runs for highly specialized audiences, means that even many academic libraries can no longer afford to subscribe to many of the journals that they really should have available to their faculties and students. Electronic publishing seems to be the perfect solution.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Directory of Career Directories (Thursday, 8/24/00)
The Directory of Career Directories is what it sounds like and comes to you from www.careers.org. It contains more than 2,500 links to other sites.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economagic: Economic Time Series (Friday, 8/25/00)
Economagic provides access to more than 100,000 economic datafiles from the U.S. as well as several other countries.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Globalization, Development and Poverty (Saturday, 8/26/00)
Here's a forum on Globalization, Development and Poverty conducted by the Panos Institute London and the World Bank Institute.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse (Sunday, 8/27/00)
The National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse is intended to help school districts all over the country cope with the growing shortage of teachers. In his weekly radio address, President Clinton announced the availability of the site and indicated that he has told Education Secretary Riley to tell school officials about it.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Working Knowledge (Monday, 8/28/00)
Working Knowledge is an online magazine from the Harvard Business School intended to help you draw on the latest ideas and information as you manage your business.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: techies.com (Tuesday, 8/29/00)
techies.com has become one of the major technology jobs sites, with listings, articles, and more. In fact, so many people make use of it, that, as Martin Moylan of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports, it's selling a lot of advertising.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Nokri: The Global Job Connection (Wednesday, 8/30/00)
There are many job sites on the Internet, and Nokri is one of the newer ones with a global orientation.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Work/Family Initiative at Penn State (Thursday, 8/31/00)
Professors at The Pennsylvania State University from labor studies, industrial relations, psychology, sociology, health and human services and other fields are working together to create social change pertinent to the needs of life and work in the new economy. Here's the Work/Family Initiative.

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