June 2000 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Jobs University (Thursday, 6/1/00)
Jobs University offers free online career-related courses, and some famous names are affiliated with the effort. For example, Tom Peters.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Theory of the Leisure Class (Friday, 6/2/00)
Ever wonder where the term "conspicuous consumption" came from? Here's the source, and here's the book: Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Martindale's The Reference Desk (Saturday, 6/3/00)
There are calculators available on the web for calculating nearly everything imaginable. There are thousands of them, in fact. Martindale's The Reference Desk may be the best place to access virtually all of them. The site comes to you via the University of California at Irvine.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ECONbase (Sunday, 6/4/00)
ECONbase offers access to 64 journals, 17,000 abstracts, and 6,500 online papers.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: WorkExchange (Monday, 6/5/00)
WorkExchange helps employers and people interested in contract or project work find each other throughout the world.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Child Care Information Center (Tuesday, 6/6/00)
Recent research indicates that the incidence of a variety of childhood disorders has been on the increase and a growing number of working parents are seeking greater balance between their work and family responsibilities. Overall, there is increasing concern about the quality of child-care in America. The National Child Care Information Center is funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Among other things, it offers a fairly comprehensive directory of web sites relevant to child-care issues.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: GlobalLearning (Wednesday, 6/7/00)
GlobalLearning is one of the companies intending to take advantage of the huge potential for online continuing education and training described by Peter Drucker and others. However, GlobalLearning differs from many companies in that it offers customized programs for specific companies.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: U.S. Department of State: Economic Issues (Thursday, 6/8/00)
The United States Department of State maintains a website dealing with economic issues of concern to the American foreign ministry, and some of these may also be of concern to you. You can access various online economics journals on the site, among other things.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: refer.com (Friday, 6/9/00)
Here's an unusual jobs site. Refer.com is willing to pay referral bonuses if you are able to help them find the people they're looking for, and those bonuses can be substantial.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Time Work (Saturday, 6/10/00)
Time Work comes from the Shorter Work Time Network of Canada. They advocate a shorter work week, not for the typical reason of creating more jobs, but to enable workers to have more time for family and other life activities.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ebusinessforum (Sunday, 6/11/00)
ebusinessforum.com is a business intelligence service intended for senior management and comes from The Economist magazine and its e-biz collaborators.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ImproveNow (Monday, 6/12/00)
ImproveNow offers you an opportunity to evaluate your boss anonymously and share your thoughts with him/her. If you're a boss, you can initiate the process.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Senior Economist (Tuesday, 6/13/00)
The Senior Economist is intended to help those who teach economics and is published by the National Council on Economic Education. Their web site is also a good resource for teachers of economics at any level.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: TrailBreaker (Wednesday, 6/14/00)
With much of business moving to the web in one way or another, shopping opportunities for consumers abound, but some are better than others. TrailBreaker intends to help you sort through and separate the good online shopping opportunities from the bad.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Education Association: Higher Education (Thursday, 6/15/00)
For many years, the National Education Association has been the best-known teachers union at K-12 levels. However, the NEA has involvement in higher education as well, and contains many people who have been giving serious thought to higher ed's future. If you're concerned about issues relation to higher education and technology, work, or life in general during the new century, the NEA's higher education web site is worth a look.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workforce Online (Friday, 6/16/00)
Workforce is a major human resources print publication, and Workforce Online offers a lot of similar content.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Salary Source (Saturday, 6/17/00)
What is the market value of your job or the job you would like to fill? Salary Source may be able to tell you if it is included among 350 types of positions for which survey information from multiple sources is collected.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Best Places to Live in America (Sunday, 6/18/00)
Money Magazine explains the criteria for its choices for Best Places to Live in America. You can also compare any two communities on the list in terms of cost of living.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A New Workplace at Home (Monday, 6/19/00)
A New Workplace at Home urges you to believe that it is possible to work at home in a way that is satisfactory to you, and their site provides advice, resources, and more of what you will need to get launched.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Seniors Search (Tuesday, 6/20/00)
Here's an online search engine specifically intended for finding the things people over 50 are likely to be interested in. What better name for it than Seniors Search.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Migration Dialogue (Wednesday, 6/21/00)
Migration Dialogue comes from the University of California at Davis and intends to promote informed discussion in migration, immigration, and integration issues during a time when large numbers of people are migrating from one part of the world to another in search of economic security or political freedom.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Minorities' Job Bank (Thursday, 6/22/00)
If you're a member of one of the underrepresented minority groups in the U.S., Minorities' Job Bank may be able to help you find just the right job. The site also contains a variety of helpful articles having to do with career development and other issues.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Speeches and Interviews from Federal Reserve Officials (Friday, 6/23/00)
What have members of the Fed being saying lately? Here are speeches and interviews from Federal Reserve officials.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Rulers (Saturday, 6/24/00)
Wanna know who's in charge? And also who's been in charge all the way back to the beginning? This strange but interesting site is worth a browse if you're trying to enhance your global perspective for the new era. World Rulers lists all of the top political leaders for most of the world's countries throughout their histories.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Pronet (Sunday, 6/25/00)
Pronet is a search engine for the new global economy. It's multilingual and enables you to do business searches based on a variety of criteria.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Productivity Institute (Monday, 6/26/00)
Professor and consultant Donald Wetmore has been helping people make more efficient use of their time for nearly two decades. Here's information about his time management and personal productivity seminars from the Productivity Institute.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Intern in Asia (Tuesday, 6/27/00)
If you're a student or a recent graduate, you may be able to do a 6-12 month internship with a corporation in Asia. Intern in Asia requires competency in the local language, however.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt (Wednesday, 6/28/00)
If you want to see the latest on the external debt of developing nations, here are the latest quarterly statistics from the World Bank.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CollegeDegree.com (Thursday, 6/29/00)
If you're looking for distance learning courses or degree programs, you may find exactly what you want on CollegeDegree.com, although we don't know if it's a complete list or not, given the rapid changes that are occurring. Also, this site will help you locate colleges in your area that do not offer distance learning programs.

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