105 Companies Join Forces With Obama to "Change The Equation" for Education

Out of 30 industrialized nations, the United States ranks 21st in science and 25th in math. We’re spending more money than ever on schools, but with few results. Huge federal programs such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top are clunky, slow-moving bureaucratic nightmares. The American education system is broken. In order to fix it, the public sector needs to start keeping pace with the private sector. How? By getting the private sector involved.

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How CEOs Will Use Social Media in the Future

Today’s CEO is not social. So says Forrester Research’s CEO George Colony. Very few of the CEOs at top companies in the U.S. and the rest of the world have any material presence on the popular social media sites. Colony believes they should be social though, and all signs are pointing to a future filed with CEOs who can speak the language of the people — social media.

While one can only speculate about the future of CEOs and social media, there’s no question that social media plays a huge part in life and the world as we know it right now.

As younger CEOs replace older ones, news consumption habits change and social media continues its trend towards ubiquity, there’s little question that the man (or woman) at the top will need a firm grasp on social media — whether that be for recruiting, scouting, public engagement or social CRM.

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Business’s Role In Educating Our Workforce

Despite the uptick in business optimism from our mid-year TalentWatch® report, the US economy continues to be slow. This month we learned that there are 14.5 million Americans looking for work and 1.4 million of them have been out of work for more than two years.  And the Labor Department just revised last year's unemployment numbers and admitted that it had over-estimated employment by 1.4 million (and 44% of all unemployed have been looking for 27 weeks or more). In fact, if you do the math, it appears that throughout the first seven months of 2010 the US economy really did not create any significant new jobs (removing the impact of the Census).

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Why More of Your Employees Should Be On Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

by Brian Carter | Search Engine Journal

Why aren’t more companies leveraging the power of social networking?

Here are the obstacles:

• They don’t understand the benefits
• They are afraid to empower employees who don’t normally network or market or represent the company
• There’s no nationally recognized solution for training Fortune 1000 companies how to do this

So let’s go through these point by point.

Read more and go through the points: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/why-more-of-your-employees-should-be-on-twitter-facebook-and-linkedin/23296/#ixzz0xAxBcFCg

Business’s Role In Educating Our Workforce

Despite the uptick in business optimism from our mid-year TalentWatch® report, the US economy continues to be slow. This month we learned that there are 14.5 million Americans looking for work and 1.4 million of them have been out of work for more than two years.  And the Labor Department just revised last year's unemployment numbers and admitted that it had over-estimated employment by 1.4 million (and 44% of all unemployed have been looking for 27 weeks or more). In fact, if you do the math, it appears that throughout the first seven months of 2010 the US economy really did not create any significant new jobs (removing the impact of the Census).

Read the full article HERE