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| Vol. 2, Issue 10 | October, 2005 |
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RE-ENGINEERING THE INTERNET
“The National Science Foundation is planning an effort to fundamentally re-engineer the Internet and overcome its shortcomings, creating a network more suited to the computerized world of the next decade.”
Leonard Kleinrock is a computer scientist at the University of California and he was involved with the Arpanet, the network that preceded the modern Internet. “Mr. Kleinrock said it would be possible to design a network that was better able to handle traffic from the edge of the network, at the level of the individual users. In the next decade, computer researchers expect an explosion of data from mobile and wireless devices as well as sensors that will vastly outnumber today’s PC’s. The most obvious focus of development will be on security improvements, something the majority of us welcome, as well as, “how to handle the transition to a better network.”
Source: excerpted from The New York Times, Early Look at Research Project to Re-engineer the Internet, John Markoff, 8/29/05.
RSS is one such technology that offers a new content delivery channel for reaching end-users not previously available through other content delivery channels and is gaining more usage among corporate users for marketing and publishing expansion efforts. For more information on this technology see: http://www.press-feed.com/conference OR visit Sally Falkow’s expert technology blog: http://falkow.blogsite.com
KATRINA’S UNEMPLOYMENT IMPACT
The Labor Department published a detailed report October 7 that showed that though Hurricane Katrina had wiped out thousands of jobs last month sending the nation’s employment rate to 5.1 percent, the rate had averaged at 5 percent since June. We can anticipate an increase as more displaced workers join the labor force to look for work, but overall the Labor report “just shows how strong the underlying economy is, “ said Richard Yamarone, Director of Economic Research at Argus Research Corp.
“…the net decline of 35,000 jobs left the national total little changed, at 142.4 million payroll jobs—which excludes the self-employed and others who are not paid by employers. That means that whatever the exact number of jobs lost because of the storms and other factors, it was nearly offset by job gains resulting from recovery efforts and broader trends in the economy.”
Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle, Nell Henderson, 10/8/05 (First printed in the Washington Post)
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Countless Katrina victims have lost their livelihoods. The website Hireability.com is providing a free job posting service to hiring managers who want to offer jobs to storm victims. SOSHotels.com is another place to offer jobs to displaced workers in the hotel and hospitality service industry. Alternatively, those with resume or interview preparation skills can volunteer to help displaced people brush up their resume and prepare for interviews.
Job posting sites are also available at the Department of Labor’s site: http://www.jobsearch.org/katrinajobs
and see America’s Job Bank: http://www.ajb.org.
MEET—GREET IN YOUR AIRLINE SEAT
Network for personal and business relationships
“Whether you’re looking for a date in Los Angeles, a business networking partner in Tokyo, or just someone to share a cab from Kennedy to Midtown, look no further. You’ve found AirTroductions™.” This is the homepage introduction to a website offering an original form of networking for air travelers who want to meet others for business and/or personal reasons. Too trendy sounding? Perhaps. But then yours truly met her partner through the dating service, “Great Expectations” and we celebrate our ten year anniversary this month. It may make sense if you find yourself in planes a lot. You can choose the type of travel companion you’d like to converse with on your next trip and skip your industry’s chicken-lunch-networking-meeting this month.
http://www.Airtroductions.com ( See this month’s book recommendation on networking)
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MIDDLE MANAGERS
“A new study by Management Recruiters International in which researchers polled 200 human resources chiefs across the U.S. found that before stepping up to a senior position, most people stay in middle management for 6.3 years on average.” “’By the sixth year at the middle-management level, most companies have already decided whether a manager has senior-level potential or has become a ‘career middle manager,’” “ the study says, adding that if someone hasn’t attained senior status by a few months into year seven, his chances of ever doing so are ‘significantly reduced.’” “The authors are at pains to point out that getting stuck in the middle isn’t necessarily a disaster, since the HR folks polled claimed to regard career middle managers as “’critical to the success of the company.’” “Still, if your goal is to reach the executive suite one day, you may not have much longer to wow the powers that be.”
Excerpted from Fortune, ask annie, 10/3/05
LIGHT THE WAY TO COMMUNITY RESTORATION
This month’s Recent Career Trends discussion of the impact of the hurricane devastation on our economic situation is on the hearts and minds of all of us. We want to help the victims, but we’re somewhat fearful of what’s coming down the road, what is really needed to repair the destroyed infrastructure and get the homeless and jobless back on their feet. Each of us has to assess our own situation to determine whether and how we can give – monetarily or otherwise. Social organizations, charities, business groups, churches, schools and foundations all offer opportunities to participate. If we don’t want the impact to be more severe on any particular group of citizens, then we all have to think of our country as our community. We have to ask ourselves, How can I be helpful to my neighbors in this hurricane devastation? Like individual candles we can spark a brighter, bigger light of hope through even small actions to help those communities move beyond their losses and thrive again. We can move out of our fearful place and trust in the greater community. As Marianne Williamson says, “...as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Laurie
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