Over the past 150 years, we have progressed from the Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age to the Information Age. The Information Age has made many things possible, including this website and blog. It created a new workforce: “knowledge workers.” Knowledge workers focus largely on manipulating information and deploying expertise. A number of fields fall into the category of knowledge worker . . . computer programmers, web developers, lawyers who draft contracts, MBAs and number crunchers. These fields share similar characteristics in that they are analytical, sequential, and logical.
Those of us who are knowledge workers have seen the employment landscape change drastically over the past few decades. The heyday of the 90’s was replaced by the dot-com bust as we entered the 21st century. And just when we thought we’d turned the corner on that, we were faced with the biggest recession most of us have ever experienced.
In these troubled times, companies are looking for lifelines they can grasp to save their sagging bottom lines. Many times the solution is to replace knowledge workers with off-shore workers willing to do the same work for pennies on the dollar. Automation is also replacing many knowledge workers. Free or cheap electronic databases are replacing the knowledge previously provided only by lawyers and doctors. Accounting that used to require much thought and analysis by a skilled CPA is now accomplished in seconds using QuickBooks or TurboTax. And on and on it goes.
What exactly does this mean? Pink has devoted A Whole New Mind
Will you make the leap? Or will you be left competing with cheaper off-shore workers and automation?
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The Kindle 2 is as thin as most magazines and barely weighs over half a pound. You can download books at anytime–no need to be connected to your computer or near a Wi-Fi hotspot. If you’re like us and running out of space on your bookshelves, you’ll love the convenience of the Kindle 2. Its display measures 6″ (diagonal) and holds up to 1,500 books. Ladies, it fits nicely into many purses.
The Kindle DX is larger than the Kindle 2, making it ideal for reading newspapers, magazines, and textbooks. One of its coolest features is its auto-rotating display that changes from portrait to landscape as you turn the device. You can easily view full-width maps, graphs, tables, and web pages. If you read a lot of periodicals, the DX is the Kindle for you. Its display measures 9.7″ (diagonal) and it holds up to 3,500 books. Even at its larger size, it’s still as slim as most magazines.
by Scott McNulty provides a lot of detail about setting up a WordPress.com or WordPress.org blog, including setting up MySQL for WordPress.org blogs. This book is written in a folksy way that’s easy to understand and follow. The only problem is that it’s based on a previous version of the WordPress dashboard that has all functionality organized in tabs across the top of the page. The current version has basically the same functionality, but it’s accessed by selecting commands in menus on the left side of the page. If you’re comfortable mapping tabs-in-the-book with menus-in-WordPress, then I highly recommend this book. When you read it, it’s almost as if you’re sitting in a classroom with a teacher who’s skilled at interacting with the students.
