2011-06-28 14:51
Here's the press release from the Open Indicators Consortium:June 14, 2011From across the nation, local, regional and state data partners have collaborated with a team of 20 faculty and grad… Read More
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2011-06-28 14:38
Here's a piece I wrote for the Instant Atlas blog -- thought I'd cross-post it for those of you following along here.Jacksonville Community Council Inc. (JCCI) began using Instant Atlas to d… Read More
2011-06-14 18:05
On March 19, we completed the first phase of the SA 2020 process with a public release and written report (available here.) It was an amazing experience as the people of San An… Read More
2010-11-29 16:35
I've been busy with the SA2020 community visioning exercise for San Antonio, Texas and we just moved into the part of the process where the community is engaged in developing indicators to m… Read More
2010-10-07 18:52
We had a great session talking about community indicators at the Community Matters '10 Conference in Denver yesterday. Delia Clark facilitated a panel discussion with Rhonda Phillips, Shanna… Read More
2010-10-01 13:21
One of the breakout groups for SA2020I was reflecting this week on the world of community indicators and how widely they're being used now. This past weekend I was in San Antonio to help lau… Read More
2010-09-15 15:40
This January we released our 25th annual edition of our signature community indicators project. We've launched an interactive indicators portal allowing us to update indicators as quickly as… Read More
2010-05-20 13:04
The Community Indicators Consortium (CIC), as part of a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is seeking proposals to write "Real Stories" of communities, organizations, and/or jurisdic… Read More
2010-05-12 18:34
This morning I shared JCCI's 35 years of experience with community engagement, studies, and indicators with a group of business, civic, and political leaders in Apucurana, Brazil. That's loc… Read More
2010-05-10 21:20
I'm spending thisweek in Londrina, Brazil as a follow-up to earlier conversations and visits about effective community indicators. When I return, I'll share something of the dialogue and exc… Read More
2010-04-28 14:58
There's an interesting debate over at The Economist over replacing GDP as a measure of progress with something else, such as a Gross National Happiness index.You may be interested in watchin… Read More
2010-04-20 13:22
Here's a quick update from Gapminder.org: We have given Gapminder's web site a major overhaul. In the process we added many new, helpful functions to make it easier to use Gapminder. The new… Read More
2010-04-17 16:11
Last night at the NAPC conference we had a nice reception where Irv Katz, from the National Human Services Assembly, addressed us on some of the critical issues they're addressing -- you can… Read More
2010-04-17 12:47
I'm at the NAPC Conference in Alexandria, Virginia. Our opening pre-conference session features Allen Lomax from the Community Indicators Consortium talking about their project to integ… Read More
2010-04-14 19:46
I'm having some fun playing with DataMasher.org, a tool that pulls state data sets (many, but not all, from Data.gov) and allows you to throw data sets together to find interesting informati… Read More
2010-04-13 17:52
Dear IPUMS Users,I am writing to pass on information about job openings at the Minnesota Population Center.We are recruiting a post-doctoral associate to play an important role in the improv… Read More
2010-04-09 18:46
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article in its April 8 edition called "New Ways to Read Economy: Experts Scour Oddball Data to Help See Trends Before Official Information Is Avail… Read More
2010-04-09 13:39
The U.S. Census Bureau has announced plans to develop a supplemental poverty measure based on recommendations by the National Academy of Sciences. This modern assessment of deprivation will… Read More
2010-03-11 16:47
There's an interesting proposal up for the Knight News Challenge awards this year. The proposal is for something called "Citizen DAN", with DAN standing for Public Data Appliance and Network… Read More
2010-02-11 19:01
I had the privilege yesterday of meeting with the people behind the Arizona Indicators Project that we've talked about before. One of the topics that came up in conversation was the difficul… Read More
2010-02-10 18:37
The 2010 Census is upon us, and many of us are involved in encouraging people to fill out their Census forms and send them back. At a recent Complete Count Committee meeting here in Jacksonv… Read More
2010-01-19 13:13
The Jacksonville Community Council Inc. (JCCI) releases its Silver Anniversary edition of the Quality of Life Progress Report. The 2009 report reflects a complete redesign of the 25-year-old… Read More
2010-01-12 19:26
Since this blog tends to attract people who are both technologically savvy (at least savvy enough to read a blog!) and interested in community indicators, I thought you might want to read ab… Read More
2010-01-08 14:00
The Jacksonville Community Council Inc (JCCI) released its 2009 Race Relations Progress Report during the Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Breakfast on January 8th at the Prime Osborn Conventio… Read More
2009-11-24 13:24
Here's a press release updating the latest survey results from the Data Quality Campaign. I thought you might be interested and want to get involved on your state level pushing for better da… Read More
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