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George Nemeth · links for 2008-11-12
November 12th, 2008
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From Joel Libava AKA The Franchise King
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A story from Jack's forthcoming book on stories
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Loving the burger dress
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Awesome photos from the making of "Running America"
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The poem 'In Flanders Fields'
Ed Morrison · What if Cleveland took the lead?
November 12th, 2008
Tap Internet to More Effectively Fight Poverty in the U.S. Says Research
Roadmap available here: Internet Innovation.org
Infrastructure available here: One Community
Expert guides available here: Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development and One Community
Data Tools available here: CANDO
Funding available here: Cleveland Foundation, Advance Northeast Ohio and here.
Leadership available here: Cleveland Leadership Center
Rick Pollack · The End
November 12th, 2008
The End, an article by Michael Lewis (author of Liar’s Poker) appeared on portfolio.com yesterday. It is long but a must read about the the collapse…
George Nemeth · links for 2008-11-11
November 11th, 2008
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OOOO! Look at those dreamy cupcakes!
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Please consider becoming a fan!
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'The Garden’s gingerbread competition is the area’s biggest and best display of gingerbread houses in our area. You'll be amazed by the clever, "edible" interpretations of buildings and other holiday scenes.'
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Great post from Gloria.
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Good thing we passed our levy. Libraries all over the country are struggling
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"When a guy like Steve Bass gets the pink slip. Steve has been writing for PC World Magazine for well over 10 years…"
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"All leadership is mythic. People see in leaders what they want to see and the more inspiring the leader, the more inspiration evokes people’s capacity for hope…"
George Nemeth · Northeast Shores Values
November 10th, 2008
From Brian Friedman, the director of Northeast Shores (my community’s (North Collinwood) community development corporation):
The mission of Northeast Shores is to create a better North Shores Collinwood to live, work and visit. But, what is our core goal? I believe our core goal is making North Shores Collinwood competitive.
What exactly is Northeast Shores trying to do? Our vision of a successful community is one where investment occurs as we witness homes being improved and businesses are open and thriving. Further, our residents are safe, educated and our children are happy. Further, our parks are active pleasant places which are known for being busy.
So, what are our underlying values? We believe that our community’s core values are equality, stability, freedom of choice, and that the community is a energizing/vibrant/dynamic area.
What do you think? Tell us what neighborhood and/or Northeast Shores success looks like to you. In your opinion, what are the core values of this community…?
I’m encouraged that Brian is fostering this sort of dialog (since it’s fundamental to the book Jack and I wrote together), though disappointed there aren’t any comments yet—but heck, it’s only been up there one day. I’m also interested to see if the dialog takes place offline as well. I know someone (me) who’d be willing to volunteer to facilitate these dialogs in the neighborhood. Might be a good question to toss into the hat at the Beachland Area Thinkrs & Drinkrs in the evening on 11/20. Contact me if you’d like details.
George Nemeth · Walk your Neighborhood. Take pictures
November 10th, 2008
From Jim:
The Neighborhood Walk will happen Nov. 11. On that day, everyone is encouraged to take a walk around their neighborhood and to photograph or video or draw or sculpt or somehow to document it, and then to share the media they create online…
I’m going to block out sometime tomorrow after work to walk around Collinwood and shoot photos. Will you?
Burgh Diaspora: Knowledge Economy Geography for New Pittsburgh.
George Nemeth · links for 2008-11-10
November 10th, 2008
Rick Pollack · I.O.U.S.A The Movie
November 10th, 2008
Update: Here is a response to IOUSA from The Center for Economic and Policy Research (from Matt Sherman)
Ed Morrison · Roldo on the convention center tax
November 8th, 2008
The quarter-percent sales tax passed by Tim Hagan and Jimmy Dimora without a public vote now totals $35,233,319.51 as of the end of October, according to County Auditor’s records.
$113-Million extra sales taxes paid by Cuyahoga County taxpayers for Regional Venues
And the market continues to decline…
The National Business Travel Association polled corporate travel managers in September and October and found that 51 percent were sending fewer employees to conferences, 48 percent were encouraging Web-based meetings…[T]he Travel Industry Association…forecasts a 3.7 percent decline in business travel for 2008 and predicts a 2.7 percent decline in 2009.
George Nemeth · links for 2008-11-07
November 7th, 2008
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Beautifully said by redhorse
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Via @adamzuccaro (aka young adam) "3rd leading Mag in the US, now only publishing once a month (used to be weekly) and primarily focusing efforts online."
