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Panel looks for jobs ideas

The Council for Excellence in Government will hold a town hall meeting on jobs at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. The nonprofit, nonpartisan group based in Washington, D.C., will ask residents for suggestions on job creation and the roles that government and the private sector should have in economic development. The session is also sponsored by the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs. Panelists include Mayor Jane Campbell, Ohio Lt. Gov. Bruce Johnson and the head of the Cleveland AFL-CIO Federation of Labor John Ryan. The meeting is free, but seating is limited. Call 202-728-0418

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Everyone talks about ROI but how do you measure it in the online world. A panel discussion of this critical but hard to define question.

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NEO Generation -The Economics of Early Childhood Development

NEOBEAN -increasing breastfeeding rates in North East Ohio
The Intergerational School - A real life learning community
NEOMAINSTREET - New urbanist Joe Stanley's vision of the new CIA
NEO Gehry
RAMTEC - Regional Automated Manufacturing and Technology Education Center
Dear Peter
SCALE
University Collaborative - Collaboration between Northeast Ohio Universities
East Cleveland
REALNEO Wind Power

March 21, 2005 Cleveland-Marshall School of Law: Cleveland Municipal Judge Robert Triozzi discussed his court cases and involvement within the community to build a platform for his mayoral campaign. 

Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Robert J. Triozzi for Mayor of Cleveland?

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It's about more than the nightlife... how can we encourage social entrepreneurs like Joe Akka to make Cleveland one of their hometowns? Joe has a lot in common with Jurgen Faust, I think, with an appreciation for design that is evident at his Panacea, and yet he's not an art school graduate (he's a 29-year-old MD who is running an independent restaurant company based in the UK).

Roberta Waxman-Lenz speaks of the origins and purpose of this initiative - this is the 3rd meeting nurtured by REI centered on the connection between early childhood development and economic development.

The 01.15.05 Tuesday@REI featured Cleveland Play House Managing Director
Dean Gladden speaking about the economic importance and vulnerability of his
esteemed organization. The Cleveland Play House is the oldest resident theater
in America, with a long history of financial sustainability and artistic success.
Yet, like so many important arts organizations in NEO, they are struggling to remain
viable in a changing competitive economic landscape, and MTV-nation.

Mary Black: Songs for Ireland.  She invites us in with the warmth of her voice and the liveliness of her song.  How lucky we are to have the Cleveland Museum of Art include in their Festival of Performing Arts the talents of Mary Black, a singer from Dublin.  As she comes on stage, she tells us as that she loves the snow we have here in Cleveland and that last night she took the opportunity to romp in this white world and throw some snowballs.  Now she draws us into her world of melodies and Irish rhythms, playfully sharing her stories of Ireland and blending together Celtic and American folk music.  She sings to us of the sadness of a couple parting as a soldier goes off to war; she weaves a melody around the joy of two lovers; she energizes the audience with the drum beats and riffs of her supporting drummer, guitarist, and keyboard player.

I attended an outstanding meeting of facilitators on Friday, led by Jack Ricciuto, founder and CEO of Smart Meeting Design.  A group of 35 people met to discuss the value of facilitation and ways that it can be marketed and developed.  During the discussion, we surveyed the collective years of facilitation represented in the group to find that it was just over 400 years.  The discussion began with the idea that communities grow out of conversations.  We start with words that build conversations that develop relationships.  The question is often asked in northeast Ohio as to how to construct a regional plan, how to engage a community that values all this region has to offer.  Certainly part of the answer must lie in the possibilities created by Jack's planting the seeds for a Northern Ohio Facilitator Community of Practice. Check out his website at: http://designinglife.com/index.php/NorthernOhioFacilitation/CommunityofPractice.   

Microsoft Business Intelligence Solutions Seminar on how to assess the health of your business, develop a Business
Scorecard, identify and control costs, determine the most profitable
customers and product lines, and respond faster to customer demands,
shifts in the market, and most importantly, trends and changes in your
business using Microsoft products. Registration information.

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Robert Paterson has shared a draft of a book chapter at his blog which offers a vision of how the generous spirit of the blogosphere might revolutionize our thinking about work and how it fits into our lives.

Check out this site: Vision Downtown -- it sounds like it is reporting on grassroots activism going on to redesign downtown Cleveland into a quality, connected place.

Couple of days ago I went to a Cleveland Barons game in Gund Arena. I am not what you would call a die hard hockey fan, but I had a season pass to OSU hockey games when I was a student there. I was surprised to see attendance as low as it was at the Barons game. Considering the NHL has no games this season I would have guessed there would be more Canadians in the crowd. The arena being so empty gave us the chance after a few minutes into the first period to sit by the ice behind the goal.

I know the farm team for the Sharks is not the best team in its division, but have we actually become a city obsessed with major league teams that minor leagues do not even count. When I mentioned the game to my friends, most of them asked me who the Barons were? It's amazing that we can go to a professional hockey game for the price of a movie, yet the citizens don't even know this team exists.

Understand
Lakewood's communities through the meme lens of Spiral Dynamics. This
program will focus on recent economic, political and social

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Join a dynamic group of renewable energy enthusiasts that meets monthly in different locations around Northeast Ohio to learn about clean energy projects and initiatives. An introduction to green projects in Lorain County, including large and small scale wind, biomass, composting, and upcoming green energy events.Call for directions: (440) 233-6500.

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