A Place I’ll Remember – September 2023
A Place I'll Remember The Shenandoah Valley Partnership’s Virtual Cooking Class series reinforces how valuable consistency is in economic development programming and marketing. Over the past several years now, Jay Langston, his team, and ...
Zoom Salons are Open Again
accelerating execution Looks pretty, doesn’t it? In my mind, this is the setting for the Zoom salons I recently re-opened to hold space for some difficult conversations about workforce. During 2020 and 2021, I offered invitations to...
Making Comparisons Count
Redesign Your Data Yes, that’s a Teddy Roosevelt quote, BUT, if you are an economic developer you are in the business of being compared and of selling comparisons. For my next few posts, I’ll talk about some recommendations and pitfalls...
A Place I’ll Remember – August 2023
A Place I'll Remember GreenSeam is a 10 year old initiative of Greater Mankato Growth dedicated to the agribusiness sector in South Central Minnesota. Their Global Workforce Program is the part of their program of work that recently caught...
A Place I’ll Remember – July 2023
A Place I'll Remember Today, my computer is giving me fits a little bit. And today, I’m so grateful I have the skills to work my way through it. So, how fitting that today I am highlighting E2D, a Charlotte North Carolina based program...
When Two Are Better than One
Redesign Your Data When are 2 (or more) charts better than 1? Last time I talked about cleaning up crowded legends by simplifying your data and direct labeling. “Small multiples” are another great solution for crowded economic...
A Place I’ll Remember – June 2023
A Place I'll Remember Maybe because like all of us I am overwhelmed with information, I’ve been paying a lot of attention lately to how website navigation is designed in our economic development world. One theory is that the overall...
Have your Legends gone Wild?
Redesign Your Data I’ve been reading and making a lot of charts lately , and it’s made me remember the limitations of legends. This is another area where the default settings on your spreadsheet program may not be serving you well. My...