Jobs and careers identified

Greetings everyone!  I'm Jill Christiansen, manager of writing services at www.sterlingcreations.ca.
Today, I have important headlines for you concerning what experts are saying about retirees and aging baby boomers.  I have lots more to share as well and I invite you now to read on.

 

Week of Feb 06
Jobs and careers identified

 

Looking at the picture across the pond; will Britain's infrastructure be able to support future retirees?
If so, how so?  If not, what is to be done?
Please read on.
Economist Debates: Reaching 65: Statements
In his view, the generation of British baby-boomers now nearing "retirement" .... relevant measure to judge whether we will be able to support future retirees. .... on-the-job retirement, if they are lucky enough to still have jobs. .... Do we intend to have ONE career or MANY careers between young adulthood and ...
Read more at:
http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/330
 
How can retirees leverage their skills into part-time jobs?
Is there room for them to maneuver successfully?
Please read on.
Life Between Jobs » Mind the Gap
By timj4real
They are actually retirees looking for a way to leverage their talents into a part time gig that has the potential to provide a nice return. And it makes perfect sense to me. With the baby boomers reaching retirement in record numbers, ...
Life Between Jobs -
http://www.lifebetweenjobs.com/ 

 

How much do you know about the over 50s market?
Enough for you to turn a profit?
Please read on.
The 50+ job market | RetirementRevised
When older workers lose their jobs, they face the reality that they may not work ... Reach the dynamic Baby Boomer market -- advertise at RetirementRevised ...
Read more at:
http://retirementrevised.com/retirement-jobs/the-50-job-market

 

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Stress, anxiety, and depression. News for retirees, seniors, and aging baby boomers.  Security tips for home computer users.  Home business opportunities, Internet business opportunities, small business opportunities, business opportunities in Asia.  You will also learn how to obtain tremendous personal and financial satisfaction by selling your knowledge and experience.

The information barrier

Greetings!  I'm Christian Robicheau and it's shaping up to be another pleasant winter weekend.  February is here; a short month and hopefully it will help us to feel a bit better about ourselves.
Today, I am pleased to introduce an editorial by our president Donna J. Jodhan.  Here now is Donna and I wish you a great weekend.
 
 
The information barrier
By Donna J. Jodhan
 
I don't think that this topic would come as a shocker or shaker to anyone within the blind and visually impaired community but sad to say, it just might within the sighted world.  There are so many of our sighted friends and associates who still do not understand when we complain that information barriers still exist for us and that they are very mountainous.  The majority of websites are still guilty of not granting us equal access to information.  Companies and organizations still continue to send out information in printed formats that are still not accessible to us and reachable by us.  Important emergency procedures are still not in alternate formats that we can read and manuals that come with equipment and appliances are still not being produced in alternate formats.
 
For some inexplicable reason, websites continue to offer forms and downloadable files in PDF formats and even our Federal government is guilty of the same.  Many websites are still offering forms that are not totally accessible to us.  We are already living in a world of darkness so to speak but the information barrier makes our world even darker.  Everyone needs information in order to keep up with their surroundings, learn, and understand.  We are living in an information based society and as blind and visually impaired persons it is imperative that we have equal access to information.  Inadequate access to information on the Internet means that we are unable to independently garner knowledge and we need to depend on sighted assistance to help us.  Inaccessible forms means that we are unable to take full advantage of e commerce opportunities and access information that requires us to complete forms in order to receive information.  Inaccessible forms also mean that we are unable to apply for jobs and funding and as a result we need to again depend on sighted assistance. 
 
If procedures, especially emergency procedures are not available to us, then we have to again depend on sighted assistance and in addition, we are often at the mercy of kindness and compassion on the part of others.  Nowadays, there is no excuse for not being able to make information available in a format that we can read.  Information is almost always developed electronically so why can't society in general take that extra little step to make it available to us?  Via email, or in other alternate formats?  It is time for us to make a committed effort to break down the information barrier.
 

 

I'm Donna J. Jodhan wishing you a terrific day and weekend.
To reach me, please send an email to info@sterlingcreations.ca and I would be delighted to send you an electronic copy of our latest newsletter.
 
Here is a complete list of where you can view Donna's blogs and editorials.
Donna Jodhan!  Advocating accessibility for all
http://www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com 
a weekly feature on important answers to consumers concerns
http://www.sterlingcreations.com/businessdesk.htm
Weekly blogs for language professionals and accessibility consultants
http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog/blog.html
A monthly editorial on issues on diversity
http://www.diversityintheworkplace.ca
a monthly editorial on business issues and concerns
http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/magazine.html 
weekly editorials on accessibility issues in Canada
http://www.accessibilitynews.ca/acnews/editorials/donna.php
Editorials:  An International perspective on issues of accessibility and disability
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com (under the editorials section, an international perspective)
A general perspective on issues of access and accessibility
http://numpadplus.com/blog/?page_id=7 

 

 

Your best American cities

Hello there!  I'm Donna J. Jodhan and it's that time once again.  It's travel time, and time for us to be ready to spread our wings in preparation for an exciting flight.  So, come now with me and let's visit some of America's best cities of the day.
Have fun!

Week of January 30 2009

 

Your best American cities
 
1. Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Are you looking for a city with a difference?
A city known for its fine dining, its greenery, and its friendliness?
That's Philadelphia and this city has been tagged as one of the healthiest, one of the most environmentally ffriendly, and one of the top American cities for young professionals.
Philadelphia is known for its history, great foods, and place for anyone who wants to start new or start fresh.
If you're looking for a city with tradition and flare, then that's Philadelphia!
 
2. Lexington Kentucky
Are you a young professional seeking lucrative opportunities?
Or a blue collar worker seeking employment in a budding and thriving manufacturing industry?
Then it's time for you to check out Lexington Kentucky.
A city with culture, festivals, history, and so much more.
A city with lots to do including horseback riding, and thorough bred racing.
A city with rolling hills and fast flowing creeks.
If you're seeking a city with one of the most stable economies in America, then why not Lexington?
 
3. Madison Winscosin
Are you looking for a city that has everything to offer so to speak?
A city with one of the lowest rates of employment in America, a very flourishing economy, and rich entertainment?
A city that offers tons of festivals including one of the longest and largest fireworks festivals that includes coordinated music?
A city with summer sports that range from biking, sailing, and hiking in the summer to ice skating, ice hockey, and ice fishing in the winter?
A city with bicycling lanes in the city and a city that takes care of its cycling population in a big way?
Then you need to hurry on down to Madison Wisconsin.
 
4. Tulsa Oklahoma
Are you looking for that all-American city to relocate to?
As wholesome as mom's apple pie?
Then Tulsa Oklahoma may be for you.
A city with a community spirit, with friendly neighborhoods and homely suburbs surrounding its metropolitan area.
A city made up of associations and clubs with members who yearn to make you feel at home.
A city with lots of arts and historic districts.
Why not give Tulsa a chance.
 

 

I'm Donna J. Jodhan bidding you a happy travel time.
Visit me at www.sterlingcreations.ca if you would like to learn more.
Or send me an email at donnajodhan@sterlingcreations.ca.

 

 

Poverty blights Canada's quality-of-life rating

Greetings!  I'm Nico Trimoff, manager of transcription and accessibility services at www.sterlingcreations.ca.
Well, I guess you can't have it both ways.  A few weeks ago, I shared an article with you about Canada's high ranking on its quality of life.  Now here is another article that talks about its poverty.
I'll let you be the judge of it all.
Have a great day.
 

 

Poverty blights Canada's quality-of-life rating

 

Edmonton Journal , Sept. 18, 2009

 

Canada's growing poverty rates are dragging down the country's grades when
it comes to quality of life, according to an annual report card ranking the
social performance of 17 developed countries.

 

In the report, released Thursday by the Conference Board of Canada, the
nation ranked ninth overall, an improvement of one place over last year. It
concluded that Canada's "middle-of-the-pack ranking means it is not living
up to its reputation or its potential."

 

Driving down Canada's score is the alarming number of children living in
poverty, as defined by the United Nations and the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development.

 

The report card gives Canada a D grade, placing it near the bottom of the
list at 15th out of 17 countries, ahead of Japan and the United States.

 

The top-ranked countries are Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands.

 

Lead author Brenda Lafleur says the child poverty rate in Canada rose to
15.1 per cent in the mid-2000s from 12.8 per cent in the mid-1990s,
according to the latest data available from the OECD and the United Nations,
which look at poverty relative to social inclusion.

 

"So there are children who don't have enough food, shelter ...but then (the
data) looks at how much it costs to go to school," she said.

 

"What does it mean for a kid who can't go on a field trip or join a book
exchange or have runners to take gym? All these things add up."

 

The OECD defines child poverty as the proportion of children under 17 living
in households where the disposable income is less than 50 per cent of the
median of the country.

 

In Canada, the median income is $63,600 for families with two or more
people. For single people it is $22,800.

 

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What's Not to Like About Twitter's New Retweet Feature?

Greetings!  I'm Mark Micheau, manager of research and translation services at www.sterlingcreations.ca. 
Ah, the middle of the week already and today my article sharing focuses on one about Twitter and its re-tweets.
Enjoy your day wherever you are.
 

What's Not to Like About Twitter's New Retweet Feature?
November 21, 2009
http://www.WebProNews.com

 

Are you happy with the way Twitter is changing its interface?
Comment here.

 

 

 

What's Not to Like About Twitter's New Retweet Feature?
Chris Crum | Staff Writer

 

Some Twitter Users Taking Issue with Twitter's New Retweeting Method

 

Twitter is of course in the process of rolling out a new retweet feature. The feature adds a retweet button to each tweet on your timeline, much like the "reply" button that has always been there. However, one distinct difference between these two buttons is that where the reply button fills out your form with the proper information ("@username"), the retweet button sends the initial tweet to your followers' timelines without giving you your own tweet.

 

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In other words, you don't get to add anything to it, you're just duplicating a tweet that came to you and sending it to your followers. You're forwarding it.

 

There are things to like about the feature. For one it's more convenient if you just want to pass on an interesting tweet. If you're the one being retweeted, it puts you in the spotlight in other people's streams rather than the person who retweeted you. It kind of feels like you're getting more credit for your tweets, although if you are just tweeting a link to someone else's blog post that might not necessarily come off as a positive. Twitter CEO Evan Williams put up an interesting blog post last week defending the feature before it even had much of a chance to get torn apart by users. He knew it would be controversial, and he even acknowledged that fact.
 As happens when any heavily-used site makes changes, some people get upset about it. Lisa Barone at outSpoken Media made a list of "things that suck" about the new retweet feature, and she brings up a number of good points, but her biggest peeve seems to be that of the avatars of people she doesn't know showing up in her stream.

 

"Showing the unfamiliar avatar does not give me 'more context' for the tweet. It gives me less because I don't know this individual," she says. "If I were to see Rae's avatar, I'd know to trust the content. I'd know it already passed the snuff test. When I see someone else's avatar, I'm thrown off and confused. Will I get used to it? No, I'll simply learn to ignore things from people I don't know."

 

She has a valid point in that seeing unfamiliar faces can be a bit off-putting, but aren't the retweets still passing the "snuff test" since they are still being retweeted by people you follow? It's not like these "strangers" are actually coming in and spamming us. It's just a visually different way of presenting them. Whether or not we like that is one thing, but it's a retweet from someone we're following just as it was before in this regard. A great many Twitter users probably don't even recognize half of the people they follow anyway.

 

That said, there are a number of other issues with the feature, as Barone points out. Some of the ones she touches on are:
 - Can't add own commentary (what if you don't agree with what you're retweeting?)
- Plays down user's visibility in own network
- Changes the definition of retweeting (makes it more like a Facebook "like")

 

The feature is still in limited beta testing, so regardless of what you feel about the feature, there is a possibility it will change. Even still, if you don't like the feature, you don't have to use it. You can still use the classic "RT" method just as you have always done. You just have a new option now. Depending on how many of the people you follow use the new feature, your Twitter experience can be affected more or less by it.

 

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Stress, anxiety, and depression. News for retirees, seniors, and aging baby boomers.  Security tips for home computer users.  Home business opportunities, Internet business opportunities, small business opportunities, business opportunities in Asia.  You will also learn how to obtain tremendous personal and financial satisfaction by selling your knowledge and experience.

 

 

How Can Your New Virtual Assistant Generate International Business ...

How Can Your New Virtual Assistant Generate International Business ...
By Donna J. Jodhan
 
Have you ever thought of using a virtual assistant to help you gain international business?  Do you know how a virtual assistant works?
This is the growing trend today; using virtual assistants on your website to attract users of all languages.  It first started off in the English language arena but due to its popularity it is fast gaining a great reputation in other arenas.  For Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and so on.
 
If you are a small business in the international arena, then maybe, you should be looking into this type of strategy.  A virtual assistant can go miles to make you money.  However, don't go crazy trying to use it with any and every language.  Use it well and use it to attract customers who speak some of the more popular languages. 
 
I am going to leave you with a terrific reference to check out.  One that gives you a much better picture than the one that I have just outlined.  Please see below.

 

How Can Your New Virtual Assistant Generate International Business ...
By Legitimate Home Business
1 - English language online fight is the most difficult one in the Online Global Business. World Internet Users by Language in Million English: 452M Chinese: 321,4M Spanish: 122M Japanese: 94M French: 73M Portuguese: 73M German: 60M ... For your English to European translation, make certain you always trade with a trained translator who is knowledgeable and unswerving. And you should expect good translation for your enterprise. When it comes to internet company solution, ...
Legitimate Home Based Business -
http://onlinemoneymakin.com/blog/  
 

 

I'm Donna J. Jodhan wishing you a terrific day.
Donna J. Jodhan is the president of Sterling Creations
Now you can view blogs and editorials written by Donna at:
http://www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com (Donna Jodhan!  Advocating accessibility for all)
 http://numpadplus.com/blog/?page_id=7 (access and accessibility)
http://www.accessibilitynews.ca/acnews/editorials/donna.php (accessibility issues in Canada)
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com (under the editorials section, an international perspective)
http://www.onestopbookcafe.com (under the café talk link) 
http://www.sterlingcreations.com/businessdesk.htm (important answers to consumers concerns)
http://www.diversityintheworkplace.ca (monthly editorial on issues concerning diversity)
http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/magazine.html (monthly editorial)
http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog/blog.html (blogs for language professionals and accessibility consultants)

Jobs and careers identified

Greetings everyone!  I'm Jill Christiansen, manager of writing services at www.sterlingcreations.ca.  Today, I have some very important headlines to share with you; pharmaceutical news plus more.
I invite you to read on.

 

Week of Jan 23
Jobs and careers identified

 

How is the increase of the retiree population going to affect the labor market?
Shortages of skills or maybe an influx?
Please read on.
Pharmacy Choice - Pharmaceutical News - 'Graying' population will ...
Since World War II, Florida has beckoned retirees looking to spend their golden years in ... She said the pool of workers for labor-oriented and high-skill jobs , ... Over the next two decades, 80 million Baby Boomers born from 1946 to 1964 ... the aging of the Baby Boom generation, which was huge - much larger than ...
Read more at:
http://www.pharmacychoice.com/News/article.cfm?Article_ID=488462
 
Should retirees consider bridge employment in order to preserve their income levels?
Or, what else should they be doing?
Please read on.
SIOP News
The authors say this may be because retirees who take jobs not related to their ... due to numerous baby boomers retiring might consider bridge employment ...
Read more at:
http://www.siop.org/article_view.aspx?article=660
 
How confident are boomers that their retirement incomes will be safe when they need it?
Should they be worried?
Please read on.
Seven In Ten Baby Boomers Now Less Confident Their
Of those baby boomers with retirement savings, seven in ten said they ... Many retirees are surprised by healthcare costs in retirement – which ... Encore careers, entrepreneurial ventures and part-time work are just a few of the options. ... experienced senior executives in aging, insurance and financial services ...
Read more at:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/16088403/Seven-In-Ten-Baby-Boomers-Now-Less-Confident-Their
 

 

If you would like to learn more about us and the services we offer, then please visit www.sterlingcreations.ca
If you would like to keep abreast of some of the most important happenings affecting your lives today, then please visit http://www.sterlingcreations.com/businessdesk.htm.  There you will get the latest news roundups on such topics as:
Stress, anxiety, and depression. News for retirees, seniors, and aging baby boomers.  Security tips for home computer users.  Home business opportunities, Internet business opportunities, small business opportunities, business opportunities in Asia.  You will also learn how to obtain tremendous personal and financial satisfaction by selling your knowledge and experience.