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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Oct 15, 2008
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Today is Blog Action Day , and the subject is poverty . You will remember blog action day from last year's discussion of sustainability . For more about blog action day and what others are writing, click here . Here are the 2007 poverty statistics for the United States, as reported by the...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Oct 9, 2008
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Last fall I live-blogged from the Beyond GDP conference in Brussels, where we looked at how the world could move forward on new ways of measuring progress that included indicators of environmental sustainability and social well-being. Here's information about a follow-up conference that...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Oct 8, 2008
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I'm still exploring social networking software, and I'm wondering how many of this blog's readers use Facebook. If you do, would you like to join a Community Indicators Group on Facebook? Please let me know what you think of the idea.... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Oct 7, 2008
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I received this note from Joe Sirgy and wanted to pass it on. I highly recommend connecting with International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) -- visit them today! QOL Researchers, Resources Available Through ISQOLS Website I would like to point out a few resources available...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Sep 29, 2008
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There's a new set of sustainability rankings out from SustainLane.com . The rankings are based on a set of 16 indicators of sustainability, from water supply and land use to traffic congestion and green building practices. The complete methodology, including data sources, can be found here ....... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Sep 26, 2008
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A few years ago I had the opportunity to work with Audrey Danner of Yampa Valley Partners on a Civic Indicators project for the National Civic League , and I think she's one of those really good people that you get to meet every now and then if you're both really good and pretty lucky. That...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Sep 25, 2008
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We've discussed metadata and data integrity issues before -- see especially this blog post for the drunks+lamppost analogy -- and have been advocating for better metadata standards generally. Now Swivel launches a discussion of the authenticity of data that reminds us why this topic is so...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Sep 22, 2008
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Check this out -- a news article about a community indicators project that is part one of a 26-part, nine-week series all on community indicators. Pretty cool, huh? The report is the 2008 Sonora Area Foundation's Tuolumne County Profile Community Indicators Project. You can click here:...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Sep 20, 2008
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As I write this, I'm at cruising altitude looking down as the morning sun highlights land-use development patterns that appear remarkably standardized from the ones I saw yesterday in another airplane heading toward a completely different part of the country. (I'm spending much too much of my...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Sep 18, 2008
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This month has required (and will continue to require) a great deal of travel, and my laptop blew up on Tuesday -- got it fixed, but it's slowed down the frequency of postings to this blog. The good news is we're still committed to providing you all the news and updates about what's happening in...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Sep 11, 2008
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News from Perspectives on Performance ( www.agacgfm.org/performance/newsletter/0908.aspx ) There's Still Time to Register for AGA's Fourth Annual Performance Management Conference Join your colleagues at AGA's Fourth Annual PMC, Promoting Government Accountability through Performance...... [view]
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