February 2000 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The 1st World Congress on the Management of Electronic Commerce (Tuesday, 2/1/00)
The 1st World Congress on the Management of Electronic Commerce will be held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Given the importance of e-commerce in the new economy, will this event become a regular thing?

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Telecommuting Jobs (Wednesday, 2/2/00)
Unsurprisingly, Telecommuting Jobs is a jobs site specializing in work on the telephone.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bloomberg (Thursday, 2/3/00)
The Bloomberg organization has leveraged financial and business information across multiple media to become one of the largest and most important information sources of interest to people in the business and financial communities. For instance PBS' Charlie Rose Show is taped in the Bloomberg studios in New York. Bloomberg has become an imposing presence on the web too.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Monthly Labor Review (Friday, 2/4/00)
The Monthly Labor Review comes to you from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the United States Department of Labor. It contains articles, book reviews, and employment projections, among other things.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Embark (Saturday, 2/5/00)
Embark is one of the more practical higher education sites on the Internet and offers much information, guidance, and resource on most issues relating to choosing a college, getting in, paying for it, and many other things.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Center for Children in Poverty (Monday, 2/7/00)
The U.S. has the world's richest economy and it's doing better now than in a generation. It also has the biggest average gap between rich and poor, including a higher proportion of young children living in poverty than any other Western industrialized nation. Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty studies the problem and leads in efforts to do something about it.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Federation of Small Businesses (Tuesday, 2/8/00)
The Federation of Small Businesses provides resource and help for small business people in the United Kingdom.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Friedrich Hayek Scholars' Page (Wednesday, 2/9/00)
The Nobel Prize winner has been getting renewed attention lately. The Friedrich Hayek Scholars' Page contains a gazillion links to writings, quotations, radio interviews, and much more.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business Education Initiative (Thursday, 2/10/00)
The Business Education Initiative is intended to build partnerships in order to provide young people with the education and training they need in order to compete in the new global economy and benefit Northern Ireland. Many U.S. institutions are involved, and the Initiative has the endorsement of President Clinton.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Money magazine's Cost-of-Living Calculator (Friday, 2/11/00)
A dollar doesn't go as far in some parts of the U.S. as in others, so, if you're negotiating for a new job, it's important to keep this in mind. Here's Money magazine's Cost-of-Living Calculator to help you determine how far your present or expected salary will go where you're intending to live next.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic-Indicators.com (Saturday, 2/12/00)
Here's a directory of web sites offering data for tracking the American economy. Economic-Indicators.com was put together by Mark Rogers, author of The Handbook of Key Economic Indicators.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Black Enterprise (Sunday, 2/13/00)
Black Enterprise has been a leading business print publication for a long time. Now, it's a major web portal as well.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project (Monday, 2/14/00)
Rather than arguing a particular point of view, the Affirmative Action and Diversity Project intends to provide a place where many voices can be heard. It comes to you from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Top 50 Colleges for Black Collegians (Tuesday, 2/15/00)
Johns Hopkins University professor Thomas LaVeist has teamed with Black Enterprise magazine to present the first listing of top colleges for African American students. The listing is based on Professor LaVeist's research on thousands of American higher education institutions and uses multiple criteria of special interest to black students and their families.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The World Wide Web Security FAQ (Wednesday, 2/16/00)
Recent events have put web security on nearly everybody's mind, particularly people who want to engage in e-commerce. Here's a relevant FAQ site from Lincoln Stein of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Ethnologue (Thursday, 2/17/00)
Who speaks what where? Among other things, the global economy means that most of us will no longer be able to confine ourselves to the little patch of earth where we happened to originate or to the language we happened to be taught as a child. Bilingual would be nice; multilingual would be nicer. If you'd like to get the big picture with respect to world languages, Ethnologue is a good place to do it. Here's detailed information about more than 6,700 languages, in fact.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Calendar (Friday, 2/18/00)
Here's an economic calendar from The Dismal Scientist and Homowners.com that can help you keep in touch day-by-day.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Agricultural Economics Association (Saturday, 2/19/00)
Here's the official web site of the American Agricultural Economics Association, including employment services, back issues of the association's newsletter, and more.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The USDA Economics and Statistics System (Sunday, 2/20/00)
Here are hundreds of reports and datasets from the United States Department of Agriculture. The USDA Economics and Statistics System comes to you from Cornell University, but there are also a number of other partners supporting the project.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: HRMJobs.com (Monday, 2/21/00)
HRMJobs.com is a jobs site for human resource professionals.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (Tuesday, 2/22/00)
The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan sponsors hundreds of events each year and its web site offers a variety of advanced feature to persons who register.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Working Women's Forum (Wednesday, 2/23/00)
Working Women's Forum is an organization of more than 5.5 million working women in India dedicated to the eradication of poverty and the economic security and well-being of women.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Political Economy Bibliography (Thursday, 2/24/00)
Here are a great many references relating to political economy put together by David Robertson at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Attracting and Retaining Awesome People (Friday, 2/25/00)
Here's some help for entrepreneurs and small business people who want to hire high-quality employees. It's part of the Lycos Business Guide, and includes a number of articles on relevant issues.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network (Saturday, 2/26/00)
Here's career help for academics from higher ed's gold standard newspaper. The Chronicle's Career Network includes articles as well as job postings. However, while access to earlier postings is free, you'll need to be a subscriber to access the most recent.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: OSHA: Small Business (Sunday, 2/27/00)
OSHA conducts seminars for small business and explains why you need an ergonomic program, even if your company isn't on the Fortune 500 listing.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Software Contractors' Guild (Monday, 2/28/00)
The Software Contractors' Guild is an international organization of software consultants and contractors. Their site lists persons with services to offer, as well as position openings. There are far more of the former listed than the latter, but this does not accurately reflect overall demand in the new economy. If you're a qualified software professional, a great many people are looking for you right now.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Broadening of Higher Education (Tuesday, 2/29/00)
Klara Smolova believes that higher education in the Czech Republic needs to be broadened in a variety of ways. This article comes form the Prague Tribune.

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