Author Archives: Lisa Katz
Lisa Katz
Rock Stars, Regions & Resilience
Rock Stars It’s funny how, depending on the lens you use, certain people can become your own personal rock star. I recently attended an International Economic Development Council (IEDC) event in Texas. I was pulling all of my best networking moves and finally decided I needed to take a break and actually “listen” to one [...]
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Tough Times in Regional Detroit
Unemployment in Macomb County I recently met with a Macomb county commissioner whose district is embedded in the metro Detroit region of roughly 5 million people. The commissioner was concerned because, despite state unemployment in excess of 15%, county unemployment exceeded 16%, and pockets in her district face rates as high as 25%. “We’re heading [...]
The Future of Work and Learning is Today
Learning Online Pays Off Students, educators and others can access syllabi, lecture notes, audio and video for almost every MIT course offered today, and over 50 million have done so. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of education has done a meta-analysis that shows that students who take all or part of their classes online generally perform [...]
Posted in Longform, Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Work, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged education, facebook, jobs, learning, social networks, talent, twitter, web2.0 Leave a comment
Hometown Advantage with a “D”