Category Archives: Treasures
Economic Transformation in Northeastern Ohio
Promising Practices in Regional Economic Development: Northeast Ohio Last week, I attended an event focused on the importance of regional planning, partnerships between government, workforce, education, and economic development, and how encouraging entrepreneurship in regions can help spur economic growth and prevent further population loss. My own organization, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW), has [...]
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Workers or Jobs: Which Comes First?
Training vs. Jobs In communities across the country where unemployment is especially high, leaders and policy makers urge workers to upgrade their skills and search for employment in new and growing industries – like wind energy. But often, the jobs aren’t there yet. Better Bridges Between Economic and Workforce Development Yes, the world is getting [...]
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The Power of Connecting
Smart Communities Connect, Share, and Drive from Data At the risk of making this post feel like an ad, I embedded “The Way We Work” above. The video clearly explains (from an enterprise perspective) the same theory of change we’re trying to advance from a community perspective – how connecting us to each and to [...]
Also posted in Community, Gov20, Uncategorized, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged Collaboration, community, gov2.0, IBM, smart cities, smart communities Leave a comment
Roundup of Gov2.0 Summit Resources
Reinventing Our Government Sadly, we were not able to attend last month’s Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, DC. I did contribute the to “What does Gov2.0 mean to you?” video contest, with this, but I really liked Andrew’s (@Krazykriz), which I embedded above. However, thanks to social media, the community that did attend let us in [...]
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New Approaches for Young Wish-They-Were-Workers
Really high unemployment among youth. One of the most alarming bits of bad news in a sea of unwelcome statistics about unemployment, is just how bad it is for the young American worker these days. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that the proportion of young people employed in July was 51.4 percent, “the [...]
Also posted in Longform, Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Uncategorized, Young People Tagged facebook, jobs, social media, unemployment, workforce, Young People, youth Leave a comment
Revisiting Our Community Agility Ecosystem
What’s Community Agility? Two years ago – when we launched the Community Initiatives Team – agility was on ours minds. Pre-recession, we were hearing flat, but seeing spiky. Our team members live and work in regions as diverse as Portland (OR), Tucson (AZ), Charlotte (NC), and all over Michigan. So while the U.S. economy at [...]
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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 [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Longform, Resilience, Social Innovation, Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Uncategorized Tagged agility, community, Detroit, engagement, innovation, investment, outcomes, participation, resilience 1 Comment
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 [...]
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New Working Paper: Social Change with a Network Mindset
Monitor Institute Releases Working Wikily 2.0 Networks and Social Change We love and have been following the Working Wikily blog for some time now, but authors Diana Scearce, Gabriel Kasper, and Heather McLeod Grant have outdone themselves on this one. We agree that a networked mindset is evolving – and it changes assumptions about how [...]
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US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook