A Place I’ll Remember – December 2022
A Place I'll Remember 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...
A Few of my (Least) Favorite Things #1
Redesign Your Data 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,...
A Place I’ll Remember – November 2022
A Place I'll Remember 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...
A Gift of Learning
Redesign Your Data I’m a data visualization nerd, and I’ve invested a lot in learning best practices and thinking about how to apply them to economic development situations. Some time ago I created a list of my favorite...
Kate McEnroe on Demand – Speed Dating 101 Course
Kate McEnroe On Demand Kate McEnroe on Demand is my online school platform with on demand video content. You can subscribe as an individual or reach out to me for bulk or custom content for your team. Here’s this month’s...
A Place I’ll Remember – October 2022
A Place I'll Remember This post was going to be about Iceland, and a model they used to dramatically reduce teen smoking and drug use. As with many things, it popped into my consciousness from a number of angles – it was featured quite a...
A Place I’ll Remember – September 2022
A Place I'll Remember I’ve noticed several states enhancing their efforts, or at least the branding of their efforts, designed to support economic and community development in their rural areas. Some are budgeting more staff and resources...
A Place I’ll Remember – August 2022
A Place I'll Remember Can you find the funny in economic development? Some of you know my husband Ed Riggins, and Ed is always in search of the funny, and I’m always in search of interesting and unique economic development stories. ...