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Book Review: Open Leadership, Charlene Li – A Practical Guide to the Emerging Open Future
I loved Groundswell (Josh Bernoff, Charlene Li). While little in the way of specific content was new to me at the time I read it, the book offered an organizing framework: an environmental snapshot, an articulation of changing practices, and specific strategies for embracing (and measuring) them – all of which gave me a coherent [...]
US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook
“We’re All Doing It” Last month the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched a Facebook page. Other federal agencies maintain them too, but DOL hasn’t really been out-front in implementing the Administration’s early commitment to communication, transparency, and participation. While Facebook is just one means of demonstrating this commitment (the Department, and Secretary of Labor [...]
Also posted in Gov20, Social Change, Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Work, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged citizen engagement, Department of Labor, DOL, facebook, jobs, social media, transparency, twitter, unemployment, USDOL 4 Comments
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 [...]
Also posted in Community, Regions, Resilience Tagged community, economic development, EDA, innovation, research, resilience, tools Leave a comment
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Community, Gov20, Longform, Regions, Social Change, Treasures Tagged agility, change, community, entrepreneurial culture, Entrepreneurship, gov2.0, Gov20, innovation, networks, resilience, smart cities, smart communities, Social Innovation Leave a comment
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 Tagged agility, community, Detroit, engagement, innovation, investment, outcomes, participation, resilience 1 Comment
“We Seek Agility”