This table is a work in progress and about 40% complete.
The NCDA website, the NCDA newsletter, the Career Convergence magazine, the e-Bulletins, and the Career Development Quarterly do not provide a venue for "interactive or collaborative " discussion. They may, from time to time, point to a topic or forum in CD Forums (CF) for further discussion. I would like to add LWPS as a second discussion platform.
The following table of similarities and differences between the LWPS and CF platforms will hopefully guide your decision on which platform best meets your needs. I deem some criteria to be more important than others and have placed them near the top.
LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) | CD Forums (CF) | ||
1 | Purpose of each platform | The purpose of LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) is to provide a virtual learning space where members can interact with others to collect, discuss, reflect upon and manage the significant elements and activities of their lives and work so they can create short and long term plans to achieve soul-satisfying harmony and happiness. | The purpose of CD Forums (CF), in combination with the NCDA website (with all of its services and resources), is to be a world-renowned nexus for career development knowledge, iCFormation and experiences. It's structure lends itself to being a library or knowledge base. |
2 | Primary audience | People wanting to discuss career development (CD) knowledge, iCFormation and experiences and plan their lifework. | NCDA members and career development (CD) professionals seeking formalized and structured CD knowledge, iCFormation and experiences. |
3 | Secondary audience | Professionals wanting to serve them. | |
4 | Formality | Most LWPS posts are iCFormal and casual with some used as the basis for a dialogue to develope knowledge, iCFormation and experiences for forums, topics or posts in CF. | Most CF posts are more formal (knowledge base, academic, professional, etc.) with formal debate in CF and casual debate in LWPS. |
5 | Structure | Less structured | More structured |
6 | Personal and professional space | More personal than professional. | More professional than personal. |
7 | Tags | Yes | No (But you can search for words.) |
8 | Blogs | Yes (personal, professional, and/or community) | Yes, but very limited. I will ask CF bloggers to create LWPS blogs. |
9 | ePortfolio capability | Yes | No |
10 | RSS | Yes | No, but members can get email notification of new posts. |
11 | Privacy (Access restrictions) | Yes, for any object at any level | Yes, but only at the forum level |
12 | "Standard" crosslink wording between CF and LWPS CM = community name | Click here to join with me and others for iCFormation about CM, CM clients, CM literature, future CM trainings and a more in-depth discussion on my LWPS CM Community. | ? Click here to view the topic (in CF) about CM. ? |
13 | Platforms were created and are maintained by | Pete Hubbard | Pete Hubbard My signature block |
LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) | CD Forums (CF) |
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