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Doing Effective Online Public Engagement: the User Experience

Doing Effective Online Public Engagement: the User Experience

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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…
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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…
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Managing Town Hall meetings so that everyone benefits

(and relatively few are miserable)
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How to Do Public Meetings That Aren’t Miserable — and Actually Make Your Community Better

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

Draft Chapter 2, Online Public Engagement book
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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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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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A supplemental reading list for local economy change-makers

A supplemental reading list for local economy change-makers

My good friend Darrin Wasniewski, who leads the Wisconsin Main Street program, sent Ed Morrison and I a tweet Friday asking us for…
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No more lipstick on the pig: community branding and marketing from smart people (and, surprise! me)

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

Last week, right as I was marching off into a string of conference gigs, my esteemed friend Ed Burghard of Strengthening Brand America…
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Online Public Engagement: the Book Cometh, Eventually.

Late last year, I signed an agreement with Routledge Press to do a book about online public engagement — the techniques, the technical…
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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…
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Tax Breaks for Tech Hiring: know what you’re getting and change how you do economic development

Tax Breaks for Tech Hiring: know what you’re getting and change how you do economic development

As most of my readers know, I am an avid tech startup junkie with a strong interest in how tech companies are reacting to and themselves…
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