I love a good pilot program, so the Knoxville Chamber’s eKnox Digital Literacy program is right up my alley. To be fair, they reference #Chattanooga’s Digital Equity initiatives as inspiration, so...
I have a real love-hate relationship with these bubble charts, at least as they are commonly seen and used in economic development. OK, really, mostly a hate relationship. That’s not because they are a bad way...
Why Maryland? Because it’s going to take a bunch of experiments and a bunch of small victories to move the needle on workforce challenges, and they have some good examples in the pipeline. First, almost a year ago...
Now, to balance out my discussion of some of my least favorite things, here’s one of my new favorite things. Problem is, I don’t know exactly what to call it to make sense to you – virtual...
We are living in a world where 3-D has become so boring it’s time to move on to the meta-verse, but our human brains still process statistics best in good old-fashioned 2-D. Excel offers 3-D options for many of their...
The topic is arts as economic development, which is you know me you might guess I have a soft spot for. I think it’s important for a couple of key reasons. First, artists are adventurous – they will be...
This month there is a lot of editing going on over at Kate McEnroe on Demand. If you’ve been a student of Reboot Your Workforce Story, log back in to your student account to see the updated lesson attachments,...
Talent recruitment programs targeted at bring people “home” have been going on for a while, and for a while Michigan communities have been capitalizing on the holiday seasons to encourage people to come back home...
This is a visualization of a pretty typical economic development data set – employment by industry. Is it hard to read? Do you think it would matter if I enlarged it? Made it in another program? Well, maybe,...
It’s accepted as gospel truth that employers consider veterans to be a valuable component of any community’s local workforce. So, in addition to marketing that workforce to employers, many places are not actively...