Creating a Wise Economy

Crowdsource Wisdom: The Introduction

I have been working on a new book about how and why we can do public engagement or public participation that actually develops useful information, doesn’t make most people miserable and actually helps people help make their communities better. My evolving shorthand…

Doing Effective Online Public Engagement: the User Experience

The Rust Belt Bird-Flip to Dying

From the Wise Economy Workshop

Sometimes you have to force yourself to walk with your ghosts so that you know who they are. And who you are, too.

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.

The Long Hard Slog of Community Revitalization (and how media fails us): A close observer’s

A supplemental reading list for local economy change-makers

My good friend Darrin Wasniewski, who…

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…