A collection of writings that helps us rethink how we help our communities thrive through improved information, better decision-making and meaningfully involving everyone. Submissions welcome, but be good.

Della Rucker in Creating a Wise Economy

Nov 19, 2015

Doing Effective Online Public Engagement: the User Experience

Della Rucker in Creating a Wise Economy

Aug 5, 2015

From Online Public Engagement: Why Social Media can’t be your only Public Engagement Tool

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

Jul 10, 2015

Trends driving demand for online public engagement

This is a draft Chapter 3 for the upcoming book, Online Public Engagement, due out in 2016 from Routledge Press. I’m looking for your observations, challenges, corrections, and other commentary. Please have at it!

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

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

May 11, 2015

Four Types of Public Engagement: Tell, Ask, Discuss, Decide

Draft Chapter 2, Online Public Engagement book

I recently finished a pretty-decent draft of Chapter 2 of the Online Public Engagement Book, due out next year from Routledge Press.

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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

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

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

Feb 4, 2015

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

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