Manage To Change

The Future of Education?

Except for the Super Bowl, I never show much interest in TV commercials.  But last week two new spots from Kaplan University got my attention.

I don't know enough about Kaplan to know if they can deliver on these messages. What I do know is that these messages are on the right track.

Education must change to provide our children with the skills they'll need to collaborate, compete, and flourish in the new world.

Jeff Jarvis did a post called "Hacking Education" where he also included a third video posted on YouTube by Mike Welsh, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.

They're worth watching.

Reputation Management: The White Space

We’ve all heard stories about college graduates looking for jobs but getting “foiled” by their Internet presence. 

We know that employers routinely search online for us when we’re looking for a job.

It’s generally accepted that the kind of information a prospective employer finds online can impact their willingness to offer us a job.

But I wonder if we’ve considered what people don’t find when they look for us?

I got an email this morning requesting that I register for an industry event.

A couple of the speakers looked interesting so I started to poke around.

Nothing.

These were people speaking for a relatively well-known organization whose professions were described as industry pundits and consulting professionals.

In two cases I found a LinkedIn profile, but it was sparse.  It didn’t even offer a summary description. 

In the third case, it was impossible for me to disambiguate the results.  There was a public relations professional, a lawyer, a writer, and several others all with the same name. 

When someone searches for you, what do they find?

What don’t they find?

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