Comments for Start, Grow, Transform

Comment on Hometown Advantage with a “D” by Kristin Wolff

Kristin Wolff — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:55:45 +0000

Lisa: What a super post…it’s nice to stop and reflect on all the work we’ve been doing – how it adds up to something much greater than the individual pieces.

Comment on Seven Reasons to Love DonorsChoose.org: Lessons for School Fundraisers? by Kristin Wolff

Kristin Wolff — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:00:36 +0000

Zach: They made my day. Keep up the good fight over there.

Comment on Seven Reasons to Love DonorsChoose.org: Lessons for School Fundraisers? by DonorsChoose.org

DonorsChoose.org — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:39:04 +0000

Hi Kristin -

Thanks so much for this post filled with such kind words! What a great project – and seemingly a swell bunch of letters, too.

Thanks for helping to spread the word and for supporting public education through DonorsChoose.org!

- Zach

Comment on Eleven Resilience Concepts for Rural (!?) Communities by Mikias Yamilaksira

Mikias Yamilaksira — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:33:16 +0000

This is very good documents as for resilience is concerened. I am looking for resilience to food insecurity but very limited literatures, particularly on methodology part. I need your assistence, please

Comment on Rock Stars, Regions & Resilience by Erica Shier

Erica Shier — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:43:25 +0000

Great article. I agree, she truly is a Rock Star. That our communities would be full of ladies like these…

Comment on US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook by Ron James

Ron James — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:42:38 +0000

Thank you. Your blog just gave me an idea how to go about promoting my company. facebook is one way of gathering ideas from people of different nationalities. This way, the more ideas I get, the better planning I can execute. Again, thanks.

Comment on What We Know About Regional Economic Growth, Innovation, and Recovery by Kristin Wolff

Kristin Wolff — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:31:31 +0000

Kim: We were really just using this post to share OECD findings. We can’t take credit for them as insights, but find that our experience in working across several WIRED and BRAC regions tracks pretty closely. On the specifics of working with a business association, we appreciate you sharing. We’ve had mixed models (including business association partnerships) where different partners play different roles to more or less effect, but having followed your progress, we think you must have cracked the magic code. Thanks to you and your partners for inspiring us all.

Comment on What We Know About Regional Economic Growth, Innovation, and Recovery by Kim Didier

Kim Didier — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:04:37 +0000

Good morning,

Thanks for sharing your insights. I have to agree with a majority of them given our experience over the last 2-2 1/2 years working in the Iowa Innovation Gateway region (7 counties in East Central Iowa).

The one comment I did want to make is that our governance structure aligns with 3 of your 4 observations. We are leveraging a private business association as our “official” home rather than a public organization. This alignment and partnership with the business community has been incredibly beneficial for our efforts to align assets in support of economic growth the way our businesses need them to align.

Our partnership has put us in the middle of the business network and therefore we do not have to spend countless hours trying asking or trying to guess what our businesses need to grow.

I would highly recommend that other regional efforts give consideration to this type of private sector/business partnership rather than residing on the outside in a public organization.

Comment on US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook by John

John — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:19:25 +0000

Congrats on using Facebook to connect the USDL with others on a more public forum.

Comment on US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook by Jim Craig

Jim Craig — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:32:28 +0000

This idea of using an existing, free, third-party platform to disseminate information really hits home for me. I work for a construction industry service provider, and we have been trying to find web-based software that would allow us to quickly and efficiently field questions and comments about our services. I'm thinking we might give Facebook a try - Thanks!