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Issue #107 October 13, 2009

Editor's Eye

Dear Social Work Colleagues,

Welcome to Issue #107 of the Social Work E-News! This e-mail newsletter is brought to you by the publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine, SocialWorker.com, SocialWorkJobBank.com, and other social work publications.
 
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Positive Attitude Month, Diversity Awareness Month, Gay and Lesbian History Month, and Spina Bifida Awareness month, among others. Today is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, and last week, we observed World Mental Health Day (October 10), National Depression Screening Day (October 8), and Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 5-11).
 
Coming in November: American Diabetes Month, National Adoption Month, National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, and National Hospice Palliative Care Month.
 
Book club update: “The New Social Worker Book Club” has an official group on Facebook. You can join the group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?&gid=98840583520 – the club has now grown to 521 members. Our second book selection is Still Alice, by Lisa Genova.  I hope you will read it with me!  This novel, told from the point of view of a 50-year-old Harvard psychology professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease, has taken the literary world by storm. I have read about half of the book and am learning a lot about Alzheimer’s and its impact on patients and their families.
 
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Job Corner
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Responsible for the assessment, commissioning, intervention and review of services for a specific client group. Responsible for assisting people to resolve major difficulties in their lives and enhance their independence, in partnership with other agencies and professionals.
 
Specific Responsibilities
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  • 1 -2 years of relevant working experience in child/adult services
 
Email your résumé to david.dininio@hclsocialcare.ca or call 416-628-5479
 
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LCSW needed to join busy private practice in Gainesville GA. Applicant must have experience in working with children. Send CV to mkingphd@gmail.com
 
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Features
Article Excerpt:  SW 2.0: Social Work? There’s a Blog for That
by Karen Zgoda
 
(Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the Fall 2009 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Read the full article at:
 
I’ve been home sick the past few days. I think the last time I left the house was Tuesday night, and it is now Saturday. When not sleeping, I’ve heard neighbors gabbing loudly on their cell phones; smelled and heard the barbeque party going on next door; seen the taunting, bright sunshine streaming in through the window; and listened to cars and ambulances whizzing toward destinations unknown. My two cats have kept a constant vigil, and it relaxes me just to watch them relax at my side. I have access to television, cable, news, an actual newspaper that is delivered daily, and, of course, the Internet and Facebook and Twitter and their social media ilk. In fact, I even have an iPhone (thank you, Santa!) that allows me to stay connected to all of these things when not at home and is also loaded with fun games. So what do I find myself doing in those moments when I am not filling my wastebasket with tissues and cough drop wrappers? With so many choices at my disposal, and without even realizing it, I have spent today reading blogs.

The End of Blogging?

I thought blogging was dead, or at least about to die. Once micro-blogging services like Twitter and FriendFeed (soon to be gobbled by Facebook apparently, see http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/friendfeed-facebook-users/) came onto the scene, I assumed that blogging would begin its descent into obscurity. With micro-blogging, one can converse with many different people about endless topics, dialogue back and forth with information and comments, and give instant feedback, enabling a sort of link-based conversation in real-time. After tweeting for a few months, I wasn’t quite sure how blogging would be able to compete. I mean, blogging, or web logging, has been with us for nearly 10 years. Don’t all these technologies have some kind of implicit expiration date? Wired Magazine seemed to think so in its piece titled “Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Make Blogs Look So 2004” (http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay) ending with the tweet “@WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won’t find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook?” Or, as this recent New York Times article titled, “Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest” (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/fashion/07blogs.html) puts it, “According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream—or at least an ambition—unfulfilled.”

I suppose the technologies that are unable to evolve do eventually go extinct. Blogging, however, is actively evolving.

Blogging By the Numbers

As of 2008, Technorati estimated in its State of the Blogosphere report that roughly 20 million Americans had started a blog (http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/). It is estimated that 50-77% of Internet users read blogs, with 60 to 100 million unique visitors. In terms of demographics, the majority of U.S. bloggers are male, aged 35+, have a household income greater than $75,000, and have a college degree. Interestingly enough, the majority of bloggers in the U.S. do not live near large cities. It is also noteworthy that women bloggers tend to use a more conversational blogging style, and men tend to portray themselves as experts on a topic on their blogs. The Pew Internet & American Life Project estimates that “33% of Internet users (the equivalent of 24% of all adults) say they read blogs, with 11% of Internet users doing so on a typical day” (http://www.pewinternet.org/Commentary/2008/July/New-numbers-for-blogging-and-blog-readership.aspx). In fact, one blogger is worried that she is becoming the “crazy cat lady of too many blogs” and compiled a list of warning signs, of course, on her blog (http://www.lamomsblog.com/2009/08/the-crazy-cat-lady-of-too-many-blogs.html). And in other blog news, the Harvard University Extension School is offering a journalism-based class on blogging (http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k63367). Although the course itself is already at full capacity, you can follow the class blog here: http://e138.blogspot.com/.

What Makes Blogging So Enticing?

So many folks are so excited to start a blog. What is the allure of blogging, anyway? Why do we blog? In essence, blogging allows anyone the chance to be an authority on a subject of his or her own choosing and a writer at his or her own pace. It gives people the opportunity to assert their place in the world, their thoughts, opinions, stories, ruminations, all complete with an unchanging Web address and the possibility of an eager, interactive audience. Anyone with an Internet connection can start a blog using free services such as Blogger, WordPress, or TypePad.
 
Read the rest of this article, including why and how social workers blog, at:
 
and read more of Karen’s tech tips at THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER’s blog: http://blog.socialworker.com
 
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Linda Grobman’s THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER Book Club: Second Book Selection Announcement—STILL ALICE
 
by Linda May Grobman, ACSW, LSW
 
I am pleased to announce that THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER Book Club’s second book selection is the novel STILL ALICE, by Lisa Genova.  In this novel, the brilliant Harvard psychology and linguistics professor Dr. Alice Howland, just before her 50th birthday, notices small lapses in her memory.  She writes it off as menopausal symptoms at first, but she soon realizes that there may be more to it than that.  As she is walking in a familiar area of Cambridge, she suddenly forgets where she is.  Alice is eventually diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease.  The story is told from her point of view and illustrates the many issues that early-onset Alzheimer’s patients and their families face.  Neuroscientist and first-time novelist Lisa Genova tells the story with great care and detail. 
 
Please read this book with me!  You can order STILL ALICE from Amazon.com for $10.20 (or less from some third-party sellers on Amazon) plus shipping.
 
Visit the book club group page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?&gid=98840583520) for more details.  We will discuss this book online at http://www.socialworkchat.org on November 17, 2009, at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.  Also, in conjunction with the online chat, Temple University Harrisburg (PA) will host a book club event at its Strawberry Square location, with refreshments and information presentation by Linda Grobman of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER.  See the group page on Facebook for more details.
 
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Book Excerpt: from The Nonprofit Management Casebook: Scenes from the Frontlines
by Gary M. Grobman, Ph.D.
 
Case 1: Jane’s Dilemma—Hiring the Development Director
 
“Thank you, and I appreciated our meeting,” Jane said, rising to shake Bernie Plotkoff’s hand. She would have preferred to avoid this customary gesture at the end of such a meeting, but she knew it would have been rude to do so. “I’ll be in touch soon, perhaps next week, about whether you were the successful candidate for this position,” she added stiffly, trying to conjure up a smile—which was a struggle, considering the circumstances.
 
Jane’s stomach knotted up, and she began to sweat profusely as she considered her options, none of which were attractive.
 
For fifteen years, Jane Doesky had devoted herself to making the A. K. Schwarzkin Charitable Foundation the best charity it could be. She was well-paid as the executive director of the organization, and the income was now much more necessary than when she was first hired, because her mother was in a nursing home, and she was making payments of $6,000 each month to the home. Mom showed increasing signs of developing Alzheimer’s, and Jane feared that this would necessitate having her moved to a unit that provided services to these patients, with a substantially higher monthly charge.
 
Jane had sacrificed her personal life, making herself available to the organization 24/7.  She had the usual number of crises during her tenure, but had always come through with solutions that were creative. Her colleagues in the general nonprofit community held her in high esteem for her integrity and leadership.
 
Now, it appeared that not only was her job on the line, but the continued existence of the charity was at risk. It was a perfect storm that had put her in this unenviable situation—a flagging economy, the trust of a friend and colleague that was violated, and the resignation of the organization’s dependable, long-time Director of Development and de facto chief financial officer, Myron Cohn, for “personal reasons.” Almost everyone knew what those “personal reasons” were by now, as the newspapers had had a field day documenting the financial scandal that had rocked the Jewish charitable community in general and the Schwarzkin charity in particular.
 
Cohn had fallen hook, line, and sinker for the Madoff Ponzi scheme, investing most of the foundation’s assets, lured by a promise of returns that were substantially better than the market. Doesky had trusted Cohn’s judgment, providing only cursory oversight over his financial management, recognizing that he had an exemplary track record and almost 20 years more experience than she had. Once it became evident that $30 million in Foundation assets were gone with virtually no chance of any recovery, Myron had submitted his resignation, content to retire to a comfy condo in Florida. Leaving Jane and the Foundation holding the bag. An empty bag.
 
Jane thought back to her meeting a month before with her board chair, Goldie Sharafsky, who had been livid after hearing about how much the Foundation had lost. She had summoned Jane to her own office, located in a posh, downtown office building adjacent to Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. Once there, she had provided Jane with a deftly-delivered ultimatum. 
 
“I’ll be frank,” Goldie had begun, closing the door for privacy, her tone of voice masking any cordiality that had usually been there whenever Jane was asked, infrequently, to meet in Goldie’s office. More often, meetings between the two were held over a casual lunch in one of the trendy cafés along Broad Street. Jane did not expect this meeting to be pleasant, but she felt blindsided by what followed.
 
“I’ve exchanged some telephone calls with the Foundation leadership, and we have come to a consensus on how to handle this unpleasant situation with the financial scandal,” Goldie began, her words measured. Jane did not take this as a good sign for what was to come.
 
“Your job is on the line here. Since the Foundation has taken such an unexpected hit from both the scandal and poor fundraising brought on by the tanking of the economy, everyone’s job is on the line, including mine as chair. One of our board members, I won’t tell you which mumser that was but you could probably guess, even suggested liquidating the Foundation. Others wanted to simply fire you and rebuild. Even your supporters are kvetching.
 
Jane felt the blood rush to her head. But she said nothing. Maintain some control, she thought.
 
“I fought to keep you. I can’t find any justification for simply giving up,” Goldie continued. “So many people depend on our programs. And you have considerable talent that I think can work to our advantage as we try to recover from this debacle. I know Myron let you down, and God knows, I can understand why you let him have free rein over investment policy. But when push comes to shove, you are responsible and accountable for the results of all of the Foundation’s employees.”
 
Jane took a deep breath, waiting for the shoe to drop. It did.
 
“So, here’s what we decided. You have two years to rebuild the Foundation’s assets to a level that we feel comfortable funding our commitments, and you will be evaluated in a year and must demonstrate that you are making significant progress toward achieving that goal. If you can agree to do that, you can stay; otherwise, we will provide you with two months of severance pay, shake hands, thank you for your service over the years, and launch a search for your successor.”
 
Jane, speechless, shaken, simply nodded her head and left after exchanging the bare minimum of parting pleasantries.
 
Now back in her office, contemplating what was told to her in confidence by the third candidate she had interviewed that day for the vacant Director of Development position, her anxiety heightened as she considered what he had offered to her.
 
Bernie Plotkoff was a name well known to her. She was intrigued that he had applied for the vacant position although she granted him an interview more out of curiosity than any realistic expectation that she would actually hire him. He was the current Director of Development for the S.D. Leibman Foundation, the Swartzkin Foundation’s principal competitor for charitable donations directed to serving Jewish adolescent runaways and missing children. Both foundations had been established at about the same time, inspired by the disappearance of Chandra Levy in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 2001. At one time, the boards of both foundations had considered merging, but relations between the two organizations had soured during negotiations and both had gone their separate ways. The board chairs of both organizations at that time had once been personal friends, bonded by the shared trauma of separate, but similar, family tragedies involving young family members.
 
Yet following the breakup of the proposed merger, they were no longer on speaking terms. While this breakup appeared to be irreconcilable at the time, most board members and staff leadership, including Jane, judged that an eventual merger would be inevitable, particularly when economic times necessitated an end to competition for funds and programs that served essentially the same clients.
 
Jane had to admit that the Leibman Foundation was the more successful of the two, attributed for the most part to the aggressive fundraising tactics of the development director whom she had just finished interviewing as part of her process to find a successor to Cohn. “Aggressive” was perhaps too polite a word to describe Bernie’s fundraising reputation. The Leibman Foundation raised millions of dollars, including from some folks who contributed to both foundations.
 
This article is an excerpt from Case 1 of the 16 cases in THE NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CASEBOOK: SCENES FROM THE FRONTLINES, by Gary M. Grobman. This new book of “short stories that teach” presents ethical dilemmas and other scenes from nonprofit management. To read the rest of Case 1 free of charge, go to http://shop.whitehatcommunications.com/products/The-Nonprofit-Management-Casebook%3A-Scenes-from-the-Frontlines.html and click on the excerpt link in the product description.
 
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American Cancer Society Forms Blogger Advisory Council to Take Cancer Fight to the Virtual World
Leading Women Bloggers to Help Create World With Less Cancer, Including Social Worker and The New Social Worker Columnist Karen Zgoda
 
To build awareness and activism around its recently launched “more birthdays” movement, the American Cancer Society, the “Official Sponsor of Birthdays” recently announced the formation of the American Cancer Society Blogger Advisory Council. The Council members will work with the Society to determine how best to use social media to galvanize the movement for more birthdays in the virtual world by encouraging women to take an active role in fighting cancer. The Society’s movement for more birthdays seeks to save lives from cancer by helping people stay well, helping people get well, by finding cures and fighting back against the disease.
 
“The American Cancer Society’s success in fund- and awareness-raising began in 1936 with a group called the Women’s Field Army. It was a legion of volunteers whose sole purpose was to wage war on cancer,” said the Society’s Chief Mission Officer Terry Music. “We’re hoping our blogger council can help us harness the powerful network of women in social media to ignite this same passionate activism in the virtual world.”
 
The American Cancer Society Blogger Advisory Council members include eight well-known women bloggers with an interest in philanthropy, health and cancer issues:
“It’s a wonderful message—and you don’t have to be a cancer survivor to be involved,” writes Darryle Pollack of the “More Birthdays” movement at her site, www.blog.darrylepollack.com.
Blogging is a powerful source of information sharing for women. A recent study shows that women are nearly twice as likely as men to use blogs and social networking sites as a source of information (64 percent), advice and recommendations (43 percent) and opinion-sharing (55 percent). There are 42 million U.S. women online weekly doing some form of social media activity. Women who blog are significantly more active across all forms of social media, and are thus ideal conduits of information and knowledge sharing.
 
In addition to the Blogger Advisory Council, the American Cancer Society has an online presence for the more birthdays movement at morebirthdays.com, on the officialbirthdayblog, on Facebook, and on Twitter.
News & Resources
CSWE Selects Three Partners in Advancing Education for International Social Work Awardees for 2009

The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) announces the three recipients of its 2009 Partners in Advancing Education (PIE) for International Social Work Awards—an individual, program, and organization who have demonstrated exemplary innovations in the international social work field. This year’s PIE awardees are M. C. “Terry” Hokenstad (Cleveland, OH), the University of Ljubljana’s International Doctoral Studies Program in Social Work (Slovenia), and the PRONI Center for Social Work Education (Croatia).
 
The awardees were selected for their national and international contributions to advance social work education concepts, curricula, and programming on a global level. The recipients will be recognized at a November 7 reception to be held at CSWE’s 55th Annual Program Meeting in San Antonio, TX, a conference attended by 3,000 social work educators, students, and practitioners each year.
 
“The CSWE Commission on Global Education’s PIE Awards are an annual opportunity for CSWE to recognize those who are dedicated to advancing international social work education,” said CSWE Executive Director Julia M. Watkins. “An international perspective on curricular development and collaboration is becoming increasingly important with the globalization of social work research and practice.”
 
Terry Hokenstad, a Case Western Reserve University professor, has more than 40 years of experience producing international social work curricula, publishing social work literature, and fostering international partnerships. A former editor in chief for the International Social Work Journal, Hokenstad has advanced the mission of many organizations central to international social work, including CSWE’s Katherine A. Kendall Institute and the United Nations. In collaborating with U.S., Canadian, Hungarian, and Philippine universities and government agencies, Hokenstad has also established systems to improve doctoral social work education.
 
The University of Ljubljana’s International Doctoral Studies Program is the first joint doctoral program founded in Europe. Its international interdisciplinary learning program allows doctoral students to study social work, welfare systems, and social policies in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Its program promotes important social work education principles, such as social justice and the right of self-determination. The academic network that it has established is represented in the international community by academics, practitioners, and user groups, drawing on both local and foreign experts.
 
The PRONI Center for Social Work Education encourages cooperation and understanding between young people in war-torn communities in which ethnic divisions still exist. PRONI has developed 20 international youth exchanges with neighboring countries to facilitate dialogue and collaboration among tomorrow’s leaders. It has also created more than 200 youth training programs to help teenagers of Croatia find employment and to promote entrepreneurship across the country.
 
Since 2003, CSWE’s Commission on Global Social Work Education has granted up to three PIE Awards annually. Award nominations can be submitted in one of the following categories: individuals, teams of individuals, degree-granting social work education programs, national organizations, or international organizations.
 
Editor’s Note: The New Social Worker/White Hat Communications will be at the CSWE conference in San Antonio, TX next month. Please stop by our booth in the exhibit hall to say hello to editor Linda Grobman and pick up a free pen and calendar, view our books, and discuss social work!
 
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SocialWorkChat.org–A Service of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER and NASW
 
Connect with other social workers online! THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine and the National Association of Social Workers have teamed up with the Social Work Forum to bring you SocialWorkChat.org, an online community of social workers offering twice-weekly online real-time chats on a variety of topics. The chats are held on Sunday and Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Susan Mankita is the manager of SocialWorkChat.org.
 
Upcoming Chats:
 
  • Tuesday, October 13, 2009 (tonight!)—How Do Social Workers Cope?
  • Sunday, October 18, 2009—Surviving Your Field Placement
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009—Guest expert Sheila Peck on Marketing Your Private Practice
  • Sunday, October 25, 2009—Foster Care
  • Tuesday, November 17, 2009—The New Social Worker Book Club chat discussion of the book, Still Alice
 
Registration is free! Chats are at 9 p.m. Eastern Time and will last about an hour. Check regularly for chat topics or sign up for e-mail reminders.
 
Go to http://www.socialworkchat.org to register and participate in the chats and other features of the site.
 
 
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The Fall 2009 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is now available to download in PDF format at:
 
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White Hat Communications, publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine and the Social Work E-News, has published several books about social work. These books make great gifts (for graduation or other occasions) for yourself, or for your friends, students, and colleagues in social work!

Briefly, those currently in print are:

DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS: 54 Professionals Tell Real-Life Stories From Social Work Practice (3rd Edition), edited by Linda May Grobman

MORE DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS:35 Real-Life Stories of Advocacy, Outreach, and Other Intriguing Roles in Social Work Practice, edited by Linda May Grobman

DAYS IN THE LIVES OF GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIAL WORKERS: 44 Professionals Tell Stories From Real-Life Social Work Practice With Older Adults, edited by Linda May Grobman and Dara Bergel Bourassa.

THE SOCIAL WORK GRADUATE SCHOOL APPLICANT’S HANDBOOK: The Complete Guide to Selecting and Applying to MSW Programs (2nd Edition), by Jesus Reyes

THE FIELD PLACEMENT SURVIVAL GUIDE: What You Need to Know to Get the Most From Your Social Work Practicum, edited by Linda May Grobman

We also publish books on nonprofit management. Want to start your own agency? Check out THE NONPROFIT HANDBOOK: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Nonprofit Organization (5th Edition), by Gary M. Grobman.

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