Here is the link to the LWPS topic on NF - http://www.ncda-forums.org/index.php?showtopic=42

Include link to LWPS vs NF table

Link to lifeworkps.com

Below is old text removed from that NF post

If you are passionate about something and want to pursue it and want to connect with others who (may) share your passion, how do you find them?

My passion and vision is an application I call LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS). Someday it will help you find those people, and more. Right now it is a state-of-the-art platform that is a hybrid of blogging, eportfolios and social networking. olfios and I don’t have the programming skills to build the app, but perhaps readers of my vision do and will get excited enough to work on it.

43Things.com may some day help. [url=http://www.43things.com/people/progress/HPHubbard?on=69466]Here is a link[/url] to my 43 Things goal where I listed this vision.

From the moment we wake up in the morning until we go to bed at night we make decisions about how we will spend our time, energy or money. Some decisions are mostly insignificant, like what to have for breakfast (unless you have an disease like diabetes). Some are minor, like do I sleep in or get up. And then some are quite serious like do I tell my boss today that I quit. All decisions have consequences - big and small. If you make a big decision without considering ALL the ramifications, you may find you have affected other areas of your life that are important to you.

[url=http://www.petehubbard.net/e-LWP/MyLWP.htm]This e-LWP model[/url] will give you a sense of how you can assemble all aspects of your life into one place, and manipulate them so that you can make a more informed decision. This is a VERY rudimentary and static characterization of what e-LWP might look like. It has none of the programming functions that I have envisioned for it. It is merely food for thought and discussion.

LWP stands for LifeWork Planner, although lately I’ve been thinking of renaming it to LifeWork Portal. I added “e-“ in front of it to signify that this is an electronic/internet-based application, and to also reduce the number of hits when you do a Google search: LWP is an acronym for many other things.

e-LWP resembles a spreadsheet. I list letters across the top of the columns and numbers in the rows down the side to make each cell addressable. I will use this addressing scheme to highlite several important features and functions in e-LWP. When you see a column or row or cell with an underscore under a letter-number combo, it is a link to more information at the bottom of the e-LWP web page. For instance, the tag F5 in cell F5 links to the following description:





--- Meta-information ---[list]
[*]If you share this vision, send me a PM (private message) and I will list you with others who share it, like Jeremy.[list]
[*]Jeremy Hiebert shares many - if not most - of my ideas in [url=http://headspacej.tripod.com/2005_01_01_archive.html#110719065234496206]this post[/url] to [url=http://headspacej.tripod.com/blog.html]his blog[/url].
[*]
[*]
[/list]
[*]If you want others to know about this topic, send them this direct link [url=http://www.ncda-forums.org/index.php?showtopic=42]http://www.ncda-forums.org/index.php?showtopic=42[/url] or tell them to go to [url=http://www.ncda-forums.org]http://www.ncda-forums.org[/url] and enter NFT0042 into the “search box” in the upper right.
[*]If you know of NF topics that are closely related to this one, add "RLT0042" to them and tell readers to search for "RLT0042" to find all topics related to this one. Do NOT use NFT0042 to bind this relationship since NFT0042 is used to locate ONLY this topic.
[*]If you want to get an e-mail notice when someone posts a reply to this topic, click on "Track this topic" in the right side of the upper light blue line.
[*]To post a question or comment. click the dark blue ADDREPLY button in the upper or lower right side.
[/list]
NFT0042 LWPDB

We encourage LWPS members to use LWPS for the following list of activities because they all fulfill the mission of LWPS. However, you will soon discover that I encourage the core activities (1 and 2 below) more than the others because it is more important to me that individuals acquire lifework/career planning skills early and quickly so they can begin positively affecting their life and work. Those core activities will not have a surcharge. We will apply a small surcharge to the remaining activities (3 and beyond in the list below). The bulk of the annual contribution request is for the storage you use. The surcharge is a small per-centage (and usually just a few dollars) of that annual storage contribution request.

At some time in the future we will ask you to choose one of the following statements that best matches how you have used, are using or will use LWPS most of the time. The per-centage number at the end of each activity is the surcharge that will be applied to the calculated annual contribution request for storage use. You will see how this works when you (to be continued).

Most of the time [1], I use LWPS to ...

1. do my own lifework/career planning (0%)
   
2. do '1' above and help other LWPS members to do their lifework/career planning (0%)
   
3. participate in a distance learning course in an LWPS community (10%)
   
4. create and manage distance learning courses in an LWPS community (15%)
   
5. participate in an LWPS community devoted to providing a social networking communication channel for career organizations and entities (25%)
   
6. create and manage an LWPS community devoted to providing a social networking communication channel for career organizations and entities (30%)
   
7. [2]
   

NOTES:

[1] You may do many of these activities at some point in time, but you must declare what activity you do "Most of the time". If we happen to discover or determine that you are in a different activity most of the time, we will amend your declaration.

[2] Other activities may be added and surcharge per-centages may change. Add a comment with any activiites that you would like to see added to this list.

---

• Return to the Tip Jar post in the upper right corner, or
• click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here.
• Add comments or questions in the "Comments" section below.

---

The joy I experienced was ...

receiving the Occupation Certificate indicating that I had passed all inspections and that we coudl live in our home that I built.

I spent two years desiging and building our hoem using lumber milled from Doug Fir and cedar trees on our property. I did most of the work myself.

When

6/17/1998

Just before that experience I was ...

concerned that ...

Immediately afterwards I ...

felt confident ...

FTS keywords

1. designer
2. (keyword #4)
3. (keyword #5)
4. ...

SMS keywords

1. designer
2. (keyword #4)
3. (keyword #5)
4. ...

WCS keywords

1. designer
2. (keyword #4)
3. (keyword #5)
4. ...

---

Resources for research and reflection

1. View "My Joys (resources for research and reflection)"
   
2. ?

---

Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here, or return to

• My Joys <-- My Interests <-- My LifeWork Portal

---

Keep this link to this template to periodically click on it to see if it has changed.

If you have an improvement for this template, please add a comment.

---

---

An interesting perspective:

My generation draws the Internet as a cloud that connects everyone; the younger generation experiences it as oxygen that supports their digital lives. ... Original post and the Trackback

Mr. Dudley,

I would like to introduce myself.

My name is Pete Hubbard and I am the founder of  LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS), a e-learning social networking community blogging platform where members create, reflect upon and revise their collection of private, semi-private and public posts containing key information about themselves and their career, education and job search plans.

My recommended goal to all members is that they develop and maintain one aggregating (collection of links to other posts) post that is a snapshot of their current self and what they want and need in the career/lifework. I call it "My LifeWork Portal". Here is mine which is only 40% done. Here is the value and purpose of LWPS. The basic LWPS account is free.

I learned about you while searching the online PDF version of the 2008 NCDA conference program booklet with the first keyword in my search-list - "lifework". (Here is more about the PDF and the Adobe search tool if you want to do your own advanced planning for the conference.)

As I read about your roundtable sessions and looked at your website, I felt a strong sense of connectedness with you and I wanted to share that with you to see if it might be mutual.

Obviously, I was impressed with the similarity in the names of our businesses.

But the key feeling of connectedness came from your use of the word writing in the context of journaling to promote self-reflection and self-assessment. When I searched the program booklet PDF for "writing", there were 16 matches and four (4) of them appeared in your two roundtable sessions about career design.

Reflective journaling - as a means to design and build one's career/lifework - is the foundation and essence of LWPS.

I notice that you mention "journaling" five times on your website. You encourage your clients to journal as part of the process of lifework/career planning and life design.

I encourage my clients to augment (or replace) their paper-journaling with electronic-journaling in their LWPS blog. (It is my feeling that social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook. etc. do not easily lend themselves to a focused dialogue with one's self or others about lifework/career planning activities and so, some might be attracted to the LWPS platform - specifically because it has a laser focus on these types of activities.)

It might be possible that some of your (younger) clients might see the value in using a personal blog to do/augment their lifework/career planning. You could find or develop your own blogging platform to offer to them, or you could recommend LWPS. If you were to consider the latter, the lifeworkps.com main page will direct potential LWPS members to this post entitled Is LWPS right for you?.

I am currently laying out my schedule for my 3 days at the conference and plan to attend at least one of your roundtables.

I look forward to meeting you at the conference. You will easily recognize me because I will be wearing a Native American Indian vest which I call my Dreamcatcher vest. I will spend most of Wed. and Fri. morning volunteering at the Cyber Cafe.

Pete

PS: I liked the topic architecture for your roundtable 4-5. In 1994 I agonized for a week trying to decide if I should spend 20+ hours redrawing the second set of final blueprints to the home I was about to build because I saw something in another house that I really wanted. I decided to make the change and I never regretted it. It is critical that an architect understand his client's needs (and wants, etc.) before he presents his design ideas and freezes them into a  blueprint. It is much easier to use an eraser and pencil to redraw lines on a blueprint, than to jackhammer concrete and tear down walls. The same applies to clearly understanding one's self, needs and wants and developing a blueprint ("My LifeWork Portal" and its many posts) to prepare for life's many transitions.

Contact information for LIFEWORKS Career & Life Design ... kendall@lifeworkscareers.com

---

A copy of this note is in this LWPS post - http://lifeworkps.com/hubbard/weblog/395.html

---