Tag: Education
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Calling all Colleges
For years, “town and gown” tension was the norm for college towns. Colleges and universities were perceived as living in their own little bubble, seemingly disconnected and frankly uncaring about the communities surrounding them. Tensions between students and local police, between campus and town planners and even some elitist hostility reigned. Today, both academic and…
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Sneak Peak: Create WV Conference Speakers
For Create WV blog readers and newsletter subscribers, we are pleased to give you a preview of the keynote speakers lined up to speak at the Create WV Conference Nov 12-14 at the Stonewall Resort (http://www.createwvconference.com). We have selected speakers based on their ability to relate to West Virginia and our unique opportunities and obstacles,…
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Come to Create!
We are very excited to announce the Create West Virginia Conference, November 12-14, 2007, at the Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, WV. We hope you will spread the word about this first conference and help us make it a memorable leadership and training experience. Registrations are now being taken at http://www.createwvconference.com. First, a few words about…
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Competing for and Developing New Talent
In the New Economy, talent is oxygen. The very nature of creative economy work is defined as the constant pushing of boundaries to create new ideas, new processes and new combinations of the physical and intellectual. Anything that can be packaged, processed and replicated can ultimately be done cheaper over time through technology and outsourcing.…
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Is eBay the Killer App to Drive WV Broadband Adoption?
West Virginia ranks near the bottom of the list of states in PC usage and broadband accessibility and adoption. However, the Marketing Genius blog just highlighted the fact that Charleston, WV, is the leader in eBay usage among Internet users according to a recent Scarborough Research report (requires Adobe Reader). Forty-four percent of Internet-using adults…
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Nurturing Creativity, Destroying Stereotypes
What are your iconic images of West Virginia culture? A group of old-time fiddlers? Crafts at Tamarack or the Mountain State Arts and Crafts Festival? Most likely these images include older, white folks keeping Scotch-Irish traditions alive in the rural hills. A great avenue towards sparking creativity is combining things that may never have been…
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Clusters of Opportunity
It’s great to see some progress on West Virginia State University’s Media Center project. Combined with the numerous marketing firms that line Capitol and Summers Streets in Charleston, we could ultimately incubate a nice little marketing-media industry cluster in downtown Charleston. Economists have been learning a lot about the “cluster” dynamic of industries. Basically, independent…
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What Can We Learn From a Model Creative Community?
We just finalized our first Creative Communities workshop here in beautiful Shepherdstown, WV. An impressive group of over 20 local leaders from various categories attended, including the Jefferson County Development Authority, American Public University, Shepherd University, Frontier Communications and many others. Special thanks to Jane Peters, Exec Director of the JCDA for organizing an impressive…
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Concord University Takes Steps Supporting Innovation
One of our biggest opportunities in West Virginia to spread creativity and innovation is through our colleges and universities. It’s not an accident that most highly-rated “creative class” cities in the small-to-mid size population category are college towns. College towns attract the critical student and faculty talent required to generate innovation. For many of our…