565 - What Keeps You Up at Night, Twitter Notes, Unemployment Data
February 26, 2009 Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - Feb 26, 2009.
#565 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
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1. What Keeps You Up at Night?
2. Twitter Tracking from The MASIE Center.
3. Unemployment Data from United States.
1. What Keeps You Up at Night? - Join a very robust conversation about “What Keeps You Up at Night”. Add your thoughts at http://www.learningtown.com
2. Twitter Tracking from The MASIE Center: As an experiment, I will be adding Twitter notes from our various trips, events and discussions around the globe. If you would like to track these “Tweets”, my account is emasie and you can get to my page at http://www.twitter.com/emasie Starting tonite, I will be heading to DC for the Regional of the FIRST Robotics Competition. Follow it on Twitter.
3. Employment Data for the US: As learning and HR professionals, it is important that we keep an overview perspective on unemployment and employment patterns. Here is some current data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics:
“Both the number of unemployed persons (11.6 million) and the unemployment rate (7.6 percent) rose in January. Over the past 12 months, the number of unemployed persons has increased by 4.1 million and the unemployment rate has risen by 2.7 percentage points. Among the unemployed, the number of job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs increased to 7.0 million in January. This measure has grown by 3.2 million during the last 12 months. Over the past 12 months, the number of long-term unemployed was up by 1.3 million.”
Yours in Learning,
Elliott Masie
Contact me at emasie@masie.com
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