Top stories published by Creating a Wise Economy in 2015

This selection is part of a draft chapter in the upcoming book Online Public Engagement, which is due out from Routledge Press in late 2016. This is half of a draft chapter in…

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Della Rucker in Creating a Wise Economy

May 12, 2015

How to Do Public Meetings That Aren’t Miserable — and Actually Make Your Community Better

The International Economic Development Council’s ED Now ran an article last week that I wrote to explain why economic development people should be thinking about how to do…

Della Rucker in Creating a Wise Economy

Mar 26, 2015

What a consultant is good for (from The Local Economy Revolution)

Um, Della. You keep beating up on consultants. You’ve been a consultant for close to 20 years. You still make money consulting.

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Della Rucker in Creating a Wise Economy

May 19, 2015

Managing Town Hall meetings so that everyone benefits

(and relatively few are miserable)

This is a selection from the new book, Crowdsourcing Wisdom: a Guide to Doing Public Meetings that Actually Make Your Community Better (and won’t make…

Della Rucker in Creating a Wise Economy

Mar 19, 2015

It’s Time to Re-Make Economic Development Incentives. Here’s a Start.

We’ve been talking (or, well, not talking) about incentives in economic development a lot lately. They work, they don’t work. They’re…

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Della Rucker in Creating a Wise Economy

Jan 6, 2015

How can cities meaningfully impact entrepreneurship?

I’ve written plenty before — in the book and at the main blog — about how one-shot solutions, like throwing up a small business incubator, often don’t help, and may hurt.

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Della Rucker in Creating a Wise Economy

Feb 4, 2015

No more lipstick on the pig: community branding and marketing from smart people (and, surprise! me)

Della Rucker in Creating a Wise Economy

Feb 11, 2015

A supplemental reading list for local economy change-makers

My good friend Darrin Wasniewski, who…

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Della Rucker in Creating a Wise Economy

Nov 19, 2015

Doing Effective Online Public Engagement: the User Experience

2014

These were the top 10 stories published by Creating a Wise Economy in 2015. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2015 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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