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LinkedIn’s Next Data Dive: Professional Skills

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/03/linkedins-next-data-dive-professional-skills/ Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More It’s no secret that LinkedIn has been actively churning out products that allow users to leverage the massive amount of data published from the social network’s 90 million professionals. Recently, LinkedIn launched the ability to create visual maps of your connections.
Neuroscience

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/tmt/index.shtml Skills like memory are the first to go when we're tired. This test assesses your ability to remember how long ago something happened - your 'temporal' memory. If you're tired you won't be as good at remembering when you saw or did something.

BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Face Memory Test

RSA - About Us

The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce): an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges. Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today’s reality and people’s hopes for a better world. Overview of the RSA The RSA is a registered charity. We depend on support from our funders, Fellows and sponsors. Find out how you can support the RSA or explore sponsorship opportunities . http://www.thersa.org/about-us