Consider Rock Hill, SC – First in its historic hey day, then decades of textiles, then as part of the rapidly expanding Charlotte region. A town with a consistently growing population, with consistently high rankings in national studies for quality of life, and yet a town with 20% unemployment. That’s one and five working adults. [...]
Dr. Greg Rutherford and I presented The Hive to Rock Hill Economic Development Corporation yesterday during the monthly board meeting. I had a lot of individuals approach me afterward with positive comments about the initiative. So far, we have: York Tech providing the institutional framework for the program RevenFlo providing professional accountability for all services [...]
Thank you so very much for registering to attend the 2010 Old Town New World conference. I apologize to ask this of you, but we are going to have to RESCHEDULE THE CONFERENCE. We very much appreciate your interest in what we are doing. Forty registrations! … and I just sent messages to some of [...]
Conference Website Punk Rock and the Knowledge Economy We have three speakers, thus far: me Dr. Roger Weikle of Winthrop University Jason Gammons of Little Red Bird Design in Charlotte We have three bands: Motel Glory (Rock Hill) SLED (Columbia) Grand Champeen (Austin) Here’s a video discussing the conference topic, Punk Rock and the Knowledge [...]
Unemployment, The Internet, Self-Organizing Principles, Punk Rock & the Knowledge Economy That’s a mouthful, huh? Well, that’s the topic of Old Town New World conference this year. For speakers so far, we have Dr. Weikle from Winthrop University and myself, and we are currently working on a few others. The visual arts portion of the [...]
The Herald published an article today endorsing Vance Stine for SC House District 47. Vance is running against Tommy Pope and Brett Boyd in the June 8 Republican Primary for the opportunity to run against Herb Kirsh for the District 47 SC House seat. I’ve never understood why newspapers endorsed candidates. I mean, I’m glad [...]
We’re starting to plan the 2010 Old Town New World Conference. The conference will be Sept 9, in an undetermined space. We’re hoping THE HIVE will be equipped and ready, and maybe we can have it there. This is something we need to explore further, but it makes a lot of sense. The conference will [...]
Vance Stine is running for SC House, District 47. He’ll run against Tommy Pope and Brett Boyd in the Republican Primary and then against Herb Kirsh for the District 47 seat in the South Carolina State House of Representatives. I know Vance. I know he is a good man who is working for change. I [...]
Rock Hill, SC and York County as a whole… We Are Succeeding We are succeeding in that we are growing, are experiencing improved quality of life, and are adding jobs, homes, and schools. We Are Failing We are failing because somehow these facts exist: 22% unemployment in Rock Hill 15% unemployment in York County Schools [...]
I see two trends emerging: the knowledge worker the web My research tells me that the Professional Services marketplace (health, financial, technology, and more) is increasingly the engine of the US economy. This marketplace is increasingly made-up of knowledge workers – those highly skilled workers who may function as employees, contracted employees, service provider companies, [...]