Category Archives: Social Media & Engagement Factoids
US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook
“We’re All Doing It” Last month the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched a Facebook page. Other federal agencies maintain them too, but DOL hasn’t really been out-front in implementing the Administration’s early commitment to communication, transparency, and participation. While Facebook is just one means of demonstrating this commitment (the Department, and Secretary of Labor [...]
Also posted in Gov20, Social Change, Uncategorized, Work, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged citizen engagement, Department of Labor, DOL, facebook, jobs, social media, transparency, twitter, unemployment, USDOL 4 Comments
New Approaches for Young Wish-They-Were-Workers
Really high unemployment among youth. One of the most alarming bits of bad news in a sea of unwelcome statistics about unemployment, is just how bad it is for the young American worker these days. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that the proportion of young people employed in July was 51.4 percent, “the [...]
Also posted in Longform, Uncategorized, Young People Tagged facebook, jobs, social media, unemployment, workforce, Young People, youth Leave a comment
Tough Times in Regional Detroit
Unemployment in Macomb County I recently met with a Macomb county commissioner whose district is embedded in the metro Detroit region of roughly 5 million people. The commissioner was concerned because, despite state unemployment in excess of 15%, county unemployment exceeded 16%, and pockets in her district face rates as high as 25%. “We’re heading [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Longform, Resilience, Social Innovation, Uncategorized Tagged agility, community, Detroit, engagement, innovation, investment, outcomes, participation, resilience 1 Comment
The Future of Work and Learning is Today
Learning Online Pays Off Students, educators and others can access syllabi, lecture notes, audio and video for almost every MIT course offered today, and over 50 million have done so. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of education has done a meta-analysis that shows that students who take all or part of their classes online generally perform [...]
Also posted in Longform, Work, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged education, facebook, jobs, learning, social networks, talent, twitter, web2.0 Leave a comment
Hometown Advantage with a “D”