April 2001 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Prepared Foods (Sunday, 4/1/01)
One of the things that the new economy shares in common with the old is that people are still eating. Prepared Foods is an online magazine about the food industry, which, among many other things, tells about trends, not only in the U.S., but also in the global marketplace.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Annual Reports Library (Monday, 4/2/01)
What does your favorite organization have to say for itself? The Annual Reports Library gives you access to more than a half-million annual reports, and you can order on line. The fee is $25.00 for each domestic report, and $35.00 for international.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Great Economics Lessons (Tuesday, 4/3/01)
The war against economic illiteracy should begin early. Here are some Great Economics Lessons for students K-12 from the University of Nebraska.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Information for Independence (Wednesday, 4/4/01)
The National Rehabilitation Information Center has been gathering and making available information about federally funded research as well as other topics of interest to persons with disabilities. Here's the NARIC's Information for Independence site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Education: Speeches & Testimony (Thursday, 4/5/01)
Here's some of what the Secretary of Education and other senior officials at the United States Department of Education have been saying.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CountryWatch (Friday, 4/6/01)
CountryWatch is not only historical, political, economic, and environmental information about all of the world's countries, but news as well.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: HRMJobs.com (Saturday, 4/7/01)
There are thousands of jobs sites on the Internet, including many that specialize. Here's one of the latter: It's HRMJobs.com, and it's for human resource professionals.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Federal Internet Guide (Sunday, 4/8/01)
Thousands of federal agencies and government officials have web sites. The Federal Internet Guide from the Washington Post can help you find them all.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (Monday, 4/9/01)
The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists was founded in 1979 and has about a thousand members from over 30 countries from academic, public, and private sectors..

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: AttorneyJobs.com (Tuesday, 4/10/01)
AttorneyJobs.com tells about the National and Federal Legal Employment Report and other services. The site also offers a Q&A section on legal careers and trends, as well as other information of interest to lawyers concerned about their careers.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Food Industry Job Satisfaction (Wednesday, 4/11/01)
Food Engineering magazine does an annual job satisfaction survey. Here's the latest.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Virtual Library on Knowledge Management (Thursday, 4/12/01)
The new economy contains a tremendous number of knowledge workers who need to be managed, but to a lesser extent overall than workers in the old industrial economy. However, in a knowledge-based economy, knowledge itself must be managed. For those who have this responsibility, the Virtual Library on Knowledge Management is a good place to start. It's been recommended by many major business magazines.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: H-Net Job Guide (Friday, 4/13/01)
H-Net Job Guide is a jobs site specializing in the humanities and social sciences, and comes to you from Michigan State University.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Nordic Forecasts (Saturday, 4/14/01)
Nordic Forecasts offers longer-term expectations of what might happen in the economic, political, and business life of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Avoiding Workaholism (Sunday, 4/15/01)
When does working hard become an example of obsessive-compulsive disorder? Here's some advice from one therapist on how to identify and avoid "workaholism".

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bankrate.com (Monday, 4/16/01)
Interest rates have gone down, so you can save money on a mortgage. Is it a good idea to refinance? This special report can help you sort through your options and decide.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education (Tuesday, 4/17/01)
The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education is edited by Michael Peters of New Zealand and Paulo Ghiradelli of Brazil, and is available in both English and Portuguese. However, contributions are made from scholars from over much of the world.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Help in Writing Business Reports (Wednesday, 4/18/01)
Actually, Bartleby.com can be helpful for many types of writing and offers access to a variety of useful resources, as well as literary classics for your off hours.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economy.com (Thursday, 4/19/01)
Economy.com has become a prominent source of domestic and international economic data, analysis, and forecasts. Its experts have also been appearing on American TV news and talk shows.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Association of Reverse Brain Drain (Friday, 4/20/01)
Rich countries exploiting the resources of poor countries isn't anything new. In the new knowledge economy, though, the key resource is knowledgeable people, and rich economies have been soaking them up from around the world, which, of course, tends to deprive the less developed countries of the very resource they will need in order to become more developed. Thailand has been losing a lot of its most educated, talented people, and The Association of Reverse Brain Drain hopes to bring some of them home again.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Interactive Units Converter (Saturday, 4/21/01)
This site doesn't handle religious conversations, but you can get help here with most other kinds. Here's your handy Interactive Units Converter.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (Sunday, 4/22/01)
The famed Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan has been following the same national representative sample of families and individuals since 1968. Here's detailed information about the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Incidentally, this is a "longitudinal" sample, rather than a "cross-sectional" one, and, if attrition rates are low, as they have been in this case, longitudinal samples provide better control of extraneous variables than cross-sectional samples, but cross-sectional samples are far less expensive or difficult to obtain. Here's the difference: Suppose you want to study the relationship of chronological age to heart disease. A cross-sectional sample would involve going out and obtaining samples of 20-year-olds, say, as well as 30-year-olds, 40-year olds, and so on, then comparing people in these various age categories on some relevant measures of heart disease. A longitudinal sample would involve getting a sample of 20-year-olds and following the same people through the life-span, coming back to them at periodic intervals to check for heart disease.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: jobinga.com (Monday, 4/23/01)
jobinga.com may be a finalist in the "most specialized jobs site" sweepstakes. It's a jobs site for the gaming industry, and we think that means video games, Internet games, and so on, not gambling. Our calling attention to the site in this way implies that we don't expect more than a very small percentage of you to care, but it is an example of how, like NewWork News itself, the Internet can be used to serve specialized interests distributed over the entire globe. Incidentally, jobinga.com comes to you from the United Kingdom, but, in the new economy, it doesn't make much difference where it comes from or where we are, for that matter, because we and they are always right here on your screen.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: OneWorld.net (Tuesday, 4/24/01)
OneWorld.net offers information and a point of view on issues relating to global justice, human rights, and sustainable development.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 21 Ideas for the 21st Century (Wednesday, 4/25/01)
Here are 21 Ideas for the 21st Century, a look at the future from Business Week.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Centre for International Economics (Thursday, 4/26/01)
The Centre for International Economics is a private Australian company that performs economic analyses for clients around the world.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: By the Sweat and Toil of Children (Friday, 4/27/01)
By the Sweat and Toil of Children is a major report on the problem of child labor and efforts to eliminate it from the United States Department of Labor.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Ananish Chaudhuri's Behavioral Economics Page (Saturday, 4/28/01)
Ananish Chaudhuri's Behavioral Economics Page is intended for a Washington State University professor's students, as well as members of the general pubic who are interested in accessing resources about behavioral economics.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: O-Net Online (Monday, 4/30/01)
Examine occupations, their requirements, their prospects. Find the occupations that match your skills. Find related occupations you may not have considered. Do it all at O-Net Online.

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