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Over 50 Years of Career Transition Services for Professionals in Greater Washington
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January 7, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I hope this blog takes off. It is an easy way for currently active members and formerly active members to share information, questions, and initiate discussions. I am a new member and value interaction with others as the highest priority for my participation in 40 Plus. I run other blogs and know that they rise and fall on the basis of critical mass. Please check this out at least twice a week.
John Deupree
January 8, 2008 at 12:26 am
Thanks John. We appreciate the support you’ve provided to get this off the ground.
January 9, 2008 at 9:35 pm
It’s good to see you have started this blog. I left 40Plus almost six years ago after I earned my doctorate at 52. Now, after four years of teaching and two more years as a principal change management consultant, I’m semi-retired writing a novel of my six month sailing adventure twenty years ago. I miss the interaction of working with others and will be back on the job seen soon. Also, back to the east coast soon. Right now, my husband and I are in Memphis — to see what how I’m surviving or not, check out my blog http://memphisdiary.blogspot.com.
January 10, 2008 at 4:05 am
I saw this new blog site in the making. It’s a feat that will bring us all together and get to know each other and be helpful to each other as well. Congratulations to all who put it together. I will be watching daily and hope to contribute!
January 30, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Have there been 100 comments yet?
January 30, 2008 at 3:58 pm
No Dave, not yet. Your comment put us at about 22. But you did make a visit that put us over the 1,000 mark for total visits — a good start for the first month.
March 10, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I placed a bit of information on the Wikipedia about 40Plus. You can find it by going to wikipedia.com and entering 40plus in the box at the left or just click on this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40Plus
It is important that a few people edit the piece so that the people who work monitor wikipedia see that it is an organization of national interest. It is also important to cite as much of what is written in the wiki as possible or the whole entry could be removed.
So please log on and help edit the 40Plus entry, keeping in mind that it needs to appear unbiased and meet the following other standards of notability:
Organizations are usually notable if the scope of activities are national or international in scale and information can be verified by sources that are reliable and independent of the organization. In other words, they satisfy the primary criterion above. Other criteria are:
* Individual chapters of national and international organizations are usually not notable enough to warrant a separate article unless sufficient notability is established through reliable sources. However, chapter information may be included in list articles as long as only verifiable information is included.
* Organizations whose activities are local in scope are usually not notable unless verifiable information from reliable independent sources can be found.
* The organization’s longevity, size of membership, or major achievements, or other factors specific to the organization may be considered. This list is not exhaustive and not conclusive.
o Even though the parent organization may be notable, individual chapters of national and international organizations may not be notable enough to warrant a separate article.
o Local chapter articles should start as a section of the parent organization article. If the parent article grows to the point where it may be split to a new article, and notability can be demonstrated using the general notability guideline, then it can be split. This should occur as a top down process.
April 5, 2008 at 7:28 am
I will not be able to attend this Monday’s event (April 7,200
but want/need to as I’ve re-entered the job market one month ago. What are some ways I might be able to learn from the highlights/major points from that event? Is there a summary posted somewhere, is it video-taped, etc.? There was a similar question raised at last Monday’s presentation - how can those who miss an event, not miss out at least on some of the basic information shared?
Being there can never be replaced of course, and I would be most pleased to meet up with anyone who attended. socializing and networkingbut one of the main reasons I joined 40plus (second time). Thanks!
April 5, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Videotape copies of most of the Monday morning speakers are available for members to view in the office. This Monday we’ll be discussing resumes, developing success bites, and networking (all core themes in the 40Plus training). Sometimes a speaker will give us permission to upload their handouts on this blog, and we do so when possible.
Let us know if you have a specific question, and we’ll do our best to answer it.
Come by any Monday morning; you’re always welcome.
May 15, 2008 at 4:03 pm
40Plus is now a member agency of United Way of the National Capital Area.
We got our notice May 7 that United Way has accepted our application. So if anyone is donating or thinking of donating to United Way, you can send part or all of your money to 40Plus by including our “agency designation code,” which is 9349.
BTW, we used to be a member agency for several years, but because of inaction our membership lapsed for a while. But we’re back!
Bob Guldin