<![CDATA[LWPS Public Relations : Activity]]> Elgg http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/ <![CDATA[Ways that you can lower your use of LWPS storage]]> http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3431.html http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3431.html Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:12:21 GMT There are several ways that you can lower your LWPS storage use.



  1. Use offsite storage

  2. Consolidate posts that contain similar content.

  3. Minimize or eliminate duplicate content in posts.

  4. Delete all comments that are no longer useful or relevant. Get in the habit of clicking on "View recent activity" to review/delete your comments.

]]> <![CDATA[Theories and models that relate to LWPS]]> http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3361.html http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3361.html Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:14:48 GMT [BC]

LWPS is a unqiue lifework/career intervention. As I find articles that relate LWPS to career development and learning theories and models, I will list them below. As I find Internet-based applications that are similar to or competitive with LWPS, I will list them in this post.

Constructivism

  1. Online Tools Empower Clients
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Connectivism

  1. Constructivism vs Connectivism
  2. ...
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Theories and models that relate to LWPS
]]> <![CDATA[Online tools for career narrative interventions]]> http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3360.html http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3360.html Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:54:10 GMT This recent article (by Dr. Lisa Severy) in the National Career Development Association (NCDA)1 Carer Development Quarterly CDQ describes the value and expansion of Internet-based tools that utilize narratives for career interventions.

LWPS is such a tool in that its members use their personal LWPS blog to create, revise/refine and reflect upon their private, semi-private and public posts that contain information about their lifework/career planning activities and events. My extensive (though not fully developed) "LifeWork Portal" post is an example of a collection of these narratives.

Below is a list of other platforms similar to LWPS.

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The following platforms are fee-based. I chose not to register. So I can not evaluate and compare them to LWPS.

  1. Turning Points
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1 NCDA Website is at http://www.ncda.org
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]]> <![CDATA[Information on cyber advising]]> http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3275.html http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3275.html Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:42:01 GMT


1. Here's a post in which I talk about web nettiquette:

http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2995.html .



2. Following are two links to California consumer info regarding

psychotherapy:

2.a. http://www.bbs.ca.gov/consumer/consumer_psych_online.shtml,

Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Behavioral Sciences 2.b. http://www.psychboard.ca.gov/internet_therapy.htm, Board of Psychology



3. Following is some material found by the ACA cybercouseling committee on legal and ethical state guidelines. We shall be coming out with a full report soon. This is just for state-licensed counselors, but it can be helpful to understand some of the issues that could affect other online practitioners and clients.



COLORADO – The committee could not find mention of a policy on cyber- counseling across state lines, but Colorado does requires that the first contact between a counselor and a client, as well as any initial evaluations, be made face-to-face if cyber-counseling will be the modality of treatment.



FLORIDA - The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy & Mental Health Counseling (Section 491, Florida

Statutes) has clarified the Florida Administrative Code, Rule

64B4-2.002 defining supervision as face-to-face contact, by posting a notice on their web page advising registered mental health interns (i.e., pre-licensure practitioners) that "neither supervision nor clinical hours obtained via the Internet may be counted towards meeting the supervised experience requirements for licensure.



KANSAS - The Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board defines counseling as having occurred in the State of Kansas if the client was in that state, regardless of the counselor's location, and requires either Kansas licensure or reciprocal licensure: "Except as authorized... each person, regardless of the person’s location, who engages in either of the following activities[,] shall be deemed to be engaged in the practice of professional counseling in this state" (Rule 102-3-16; emphasis added).



At the time of this writing, the web page of the Kansas Board states it is considering allowing an exemption for out-of-state practitioners, who would apply for a permit to practice cyber- counseling with Kansas residents.



MARYLAND - The Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists acknowledges that currently no restrictions limit mental health intern' access to telephone or cyber-supervision. The implication is that few other states name these practices specifically.



MASSACHUSETTS - On November 16, 2007 the Massachussetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health and Human Services Professionals voted to approve Policy No. 07-03 regarding the status of cyber- counseling across state lines. While Board "policy" does not have the legally binding effect of Board "rule" or statute, policy still is used internally by the Board to guide its decisions.



Regarding Massachusetts-licensed counselors who provide services to a resident of another state, the board cautions:



"Distance delivery of counseling and therapy is considered to occur in two locations: where the client is located and where the clinician is located . . . . Board licensees who wish to provide services via electronic means to clients located outside of Massachusetts are urged to ensure that they meet the requirements for practice within the jurisdiction where the client is located." (emphasis retained from original document) Regarding licensees of another state who provide counseling to a Massachusetts resident, the board warns:



"Mental health professionals licensed by any jurisdiction other than Massachusetts, and not licensed by any Massachusetts Board or not eligible for an exception to Massachusetts licensure, are considered unlicensed by this Board for practice in Massachusetts . . . . The provision of counseling and/or therapy to individuals located within Massachusetts at the time services are occurring, are considered to fall under the jurisdiction of the Board, regardless of the location of the provider . . . . Unlicensed providers of electronic-assisted counseling will be treated by the Board in the same manner as providers of unlicensed counseling in traditional settings."



(For unity, the order of the above definitions has been modified; sentences have been moved from their original presentation as list items, and re-combined into paragraph form. )



MINNESOTA - Permits cyber-supervision for licensure purposes, provided that at least 75 percent of overall supervision hours are be received in person.



Without mentioning cyber-counseling specifically, the 2007 Minnesota Statutes, 148B.592 allow "nonresidents" authorized to provide counseling elsewhere to practice counseling inside Minnesota for up to 30 days, subject to review of qualifications and Board approval.



MISSOURI - The Committee for Professional Counselors (Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registrations) allows cyber-supervision for licensure purposes, but only if the the electronic format is "contemporaneously or simultaneously visually and verbally interactive" meaning that asynchronous protocols are not acceptable (20 CSR 2095-2.020). Non-interactive courses are not acceptable for continuing education.



MONTANA - The Department of Labor and Industry, Chaper 219 Board of Social Work Examiners and Professional Counselors makes a definition of "Direct client contact" as "physical presence, telephonic presence, or interactive video link presence of the client, client family member, or client representative" (24.219.301). While this definition seems to include some forms of cyber-counseling while excluding others, the practical ramifications for for licensure, billing and duty-to-warn issues are speculative and beyond the scope of present analysis. However, the definition seems to ring consonant with Missouri's distinction between different modalities of electronic contact with clients or other professionals.



NEBRASKA - Mental health practitioners are considered under the broader category of "health care providers" under the 1999 Nebraska Telehealth Act. Mental Health counseling is recognized as one of the most widely practices forms of telehealth occurring within the state.

Information publicly available from the Nebraska Statewide Telehealth Network, a partnership of 70 hospitals and 19 public health departments, seem to suggest that all categories of health care providers must be licensed in Nebraska if the client or patient resides in Nebraska. Additionally, Nebraska health care providers intending to practice in Kansas, Iota, South Dakota, or Colorado are generally cautioned that they should be licensed in those states.
]]> <![CDATA[Guidelines for protecting the privacy of LWPS cyber conversations between a client and a cybercounselor, facilitator, coach, or mentor]]> http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3274.html http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3274.html Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:30:02 GMT


This post discusses "Access Restrictions" and "Group Access Restrictions"



This post has additional information about the cost ($120/yr) to encrypt the exchange of posts between a browser and the LWPS server.
]]> <![CDATA[The upgrade of LWPS to release 0.8.1 was completed on 3/16/2008]]> http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3009.html http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/3009.html Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:21:02 GMT More about this feature.)

You are now setup to receive emails that contain the text of comments I will add to this post about the status of this and future upgrads. You can also see those comments when you click on the "View your activity" link in the right sidebar.
Click on this link to learn about the changes to and issues about LWPS after the new upgrade.
]]> <![CDATA[Message "User lifework_w has already more than 'max_user_connections' active"]]> http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/2843.html http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/2843.html Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:53:15 GMT


Ben (Elgg developer) said that we should not see the message "User (dev.)lifework_w has already more than 'max_user_connections' active" on LWPS (Elgg) releases greater than 0.6. The current dev/test LWPS is 0.8.



I believe you said you would be having a teleconference tonight at 5 pm PST. If you would not mind, I would like to request that you ask ALL of your students to do a “load test” tonight on the dev/test system . All they would need to do is access this post from 5 to 5:02 pm tonight and verbally tell you if they saw the above message. After the call, you could login into your dev.lifeworkps.com/sallyg account, access this post and add a comment to tell me what happened.



Thanks,



Pete



11/11, 20%, 2007, 4Q07, hph, lwpspr, max, max users, Message "User lifework_w has already more than 'max_user_connections' active"



http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/2843.html



]]> <![CDATA[References to LWPS in books and monographs]]> http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/1654.html http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/1654.html Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:32:13 GMT References to LWPS in books and monographs
  1. PDF flyer about the Entrpreneur monograph. Also, see the Entrepreneur community on LWPSSally Gelardin, et al







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]]> <![CDATA[References to LWPS in PDF documents]]> http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/1653.html http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/1653.html Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:17:54 GMT References to LWPS in PDF documents
  1. Driving Career Services into the Future: How Knowledge Management Theory and Practice Addresses Current Trends in Our Field of Work Thy Nguyen and Aimee L. Clum, Northwestern University

    Communities of Practice


    1. groups whose members regularly

      engage in sharing and learning,

      based on common interest.”

    2. http://lifeworkps.com/cybercounsel






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]]> <![CDATA[Why blog?]]> http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/1079.html http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/1079.html Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:23:56 GMT Why blog? articles

  1. Why Blog? Part I

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