Remember when the Internet was going to make our lives easier? Everything was going to be available anytime, anywhere. Sometimes it feels like the web has just made everything more difficult, more complicated. Yet sometimes, when we look up from our iPhones for a minute, some folks are trying to make the business of civic […]
Comments Closing
Friends and Readers, I’m going to have to close comments here on the blog. While the Spam Filter does a fine job filtering spam, we’re just getting hammered and it’s interfering with WordPress server ops. Please drop me a line with any comments, though. Twitter works great. JC .
Free Is Good: @__NoraJane Struthers Party Time
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/75863733″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Nora Jane Struthers, lately of Bearfoot Bluegrass Band, is out and about with her upcoming solo album. So out with some old (music) to make way for the new (music) due out mid-April. NoiseTrade Exclusive Music Give Away! MARCH 19, 2013 To celebrate the release of my upcoming album […]
The Social Web and Disaster Response
Blandin on Broadband Blog noted this American Red Cross survey last year in a blog reflecting on the role of Social Media in the recent riots in England. Are YOU prepared to respond to citizens seeking help by way of Twitter or Facebook? Web Users Increasingly Rely on Social Media to Seek Help in a Disaster […]
Grassroots Engagement With Social Media
During a fast-paced presentation, rancher Jeff Fowle and organic dairy farmer Emily Zweber outlined how they have used social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube and LinkedIn to connect with non-farmers. Both strongly emphasized the importance of the “human element” and the need to be genuine when using social media or else any attempts are destined to fail….
An Intelligent Community Framework
Improved productivity and growth can basically come from two sources: 1. You make more stuff, or 2. You make stuff better. The first option falls into the commodity trap. To overly simplify, there’s probably somebody somewhere on this big wide world that can make what you make, and do it cheaper. The second option is […]
Spending Some Time in the Future at #mnbb2010
[v=CVLoXWaXJ5Y] Abraham Lincoln said “The best way to predict the future is to create it” (as did Peter Drucker and other creative thinkers). I was able to spend some time this week with other Minnesotans trying to do just that—creating the future—at the Blandin Foundation’s Annual Broadband Conference. After a day of workshops, the opening […]
SoMe for the Practical E.D. Pro
Not an authorized advertisement! Social Media for the Practical Economic Development Professional August 31, 2010 from 2 PM to 3:30 PM EST. Join Mark James, CEcD, ED Solutions Inc. and Sara Dunnigan, SVP, Existing Business Services, Richmond Partnership (VA) for a very practical approach to how economic development organizations and Chambers of Commerce can take […]
Seth's 15 Foundation Elements for Modern Biz
Seth Godin owns the web-o-sphere space between lengthy business/entrepreneur blogs (i.e. >200 words) and twitter (<140 characters). Like the entry-a-day inspirational calendars, each business day a pithy point to ponder appears @thisissethsblog with periodic books published to satiate your self-help appetite. It’s good stuff to provoke a “yeah, why didn’t I think of that” or a “No […]
Markus Rill: My riff on a Tweet
[v=_fj0ZiK168Y] I stumbled on Markus Rill this week. Or rather, I should say, Markus Rill stumbled across me, over on Twitter. I tweeted about a European alt.country festival and he tweeted back. I checked out his links…. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams) He’s good. Reminds me of Tom Waits, what little I […]
