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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Arizona Town Hall Session III & IV
Yesterday I asked for feedback on Sessions I & II. Today I am asking the same for Sessions III & IV. I will be posting the questions for discussion here in hope that you will respond back to them [...]
Posted in AZ
Tagged arizona, Community, economic development, innovation, policy, politics
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Make Up of a Arizona Town Hall Group
Someone asked me how groups were selected for Arizona Town Hall. Frankly, I have no idea. I am putting my group listing here so that people can get an idea of what the make of a group looks like diversity [...]
Arizona Town Hall Session I & II
Ran into @szylstra and @kimberlanning tonight at the Arizona Town Hall. So here is the 10 second overview. About 150 people are selected to participate in the Town Hall. They are then broken in to groups by the organizers. The [...]
Posted in AZ
Tagged arizona, AZ, Community, economic development, innovation, phoenix, planning, policy, politics
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Arizona’s Economic Competitors
The following five states are seen as competitors to Arizona for economic development. (I listed them in order I personally feel are most competitive to least competitive)
Oregon
Utah
Colorado
New Mexico
Nevada
I think that Portland, OR and Boulder, CO are two cities that are [...]
Sunday Review: Practices of an Agile Develoeper by Andy Hunt
I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]
Posted in Agile, Productivity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Agile, excellence, motivation, pair programming, planning, Productivity, reading
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The New Economy: A Guide For Arizona
Getting ready for the 96th Arizona Town Hall, I am reading their report Building Arizona’s Future: Jobs, Innovation & Competitiveness. It references a 1999 paper from the Morrison Institute The New Economy: A Guide for Arizona. It lists eight principles [...]
Posted in AZ, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, chandler, Community, creatives, economic development, Education, excellence, Gangplank, innovation, new economy, planning, policy, politics, sun corridor
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Civic Duty: Respond to the Census
You should have received your 2010 US Census in the mail recently. I have seen people make fun of the postal mail telling you to be looking for it and the additional mail reminding you to fill out it and [...]
Arizona Economic Development Can’t Seem To Get It Right
It looks like Arizona Legislature is trying to get business friendly. I applaud that they are trying to do something. I just think they don’t get it. Why is this state hell bent on simply attracting a multi-billion dollar manufacturing/production [...]
Posted in Gangplank, Startups
Tagged arizona, economic development, innovation, motivation, phoenix, politics
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Sunday Review: Building Powerful Community Organizations by Brown
I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]
Adding Twitter Anywhere
I wanted to test what it was like to add Twitter Anywhere to this blog during the Chirp Hacknight. If everything works well you should be able to hover over these twitter names and instantly follow these friends… @ejc @iamruinous [...]
