This is a bit technical, but the "standard" specfications for e-portfolios has been released.

Once this specification is combined with what coolmel calls algorhythmic match-making services (and remember, the matchmaking doesn't have to apply only to romance - can apply to friends, jobs, skills)), and then you combine THAT with a deep and comprehensive mode of assessing skills and GAPS in those skills, and then this is combined with open source repositories of knowledge, and then you combine this with sophisticated recommendation engines, and then combine this with Google Maps+GPS,

well,  guess what?  It's a whole new ballgame! 

Imagine your personal e-portfolio being "recommended" for and against.  Imagine querying your interests, passions and skillsets - embedded in your eportfolio - matched up with others who possess similar eportfolios - 60% match?  80% match?  Then you run your Google-GPS against that portfolio, and discover that there is this guy down the street who matches your portfolio interests to 98%?

Should you IM him - through your cell, with your "eportfolio match" being your calling card?

Imagine running that portfolio against a job opening, and coming back with a match on both sides of 75%? 

It's both exhilarating, and quite scary, depending on how this is used.  Definitely Big Brother esque, if we're not careful.

Imagine running your own portfolio against the ideal job - assessing the training you require on the spot, with recomendations FOR that training (numbers, locations, etc) coming up immediately.

It's a a brave new world, again and again,isn't it?




 

I've seen at least three posts this week regarding the  "I'm dancing as fast as I can" challenge of life.

First, this post over at Auspicious Coincidence, relating frustration at lack of discipline.  I think she's being too hard on herself, personally.

Second, this post of (successful) Getting Things Done, meeting the challenge of productivity and balance in life.

Thirdly, this post by Vince on the Sham of Practice, which really is a different note on the same thing, looking on both sides.

The Getting Things Done post above, is very good.  I especially like the "Life Balance" computer program that gets pointed to.  I've downloaded the demo version, and I hope to try it out and report on it. 

All three of the above perspectives are true, and have validity.  Finding the balance between being productive, managing life, and yet simply being here now, in THIS moment, without escaping into the future, or worrying about the past - that's a challenge in and of itself.