The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Oct 12-14, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. The Brag Basket is open fora wide variety of topics.(CC) by Ausiegall on Flickr Don’t hold back because of that word, […]
Archives for October 2012
Why rural people need to get together online and in person (VIDEO)
Last year at the Small Town 140 Conference, I shared a bit of a rant about how outside people see small towns and why that matters to us getting together online and in person. If you can’t see the video, please click through to Small Biz Survival. Here’s what I said: Last week I opened […]
Small Town Rules on the Radio
We’ve been hitting the airwaves with Small Town Rules. Here are a couple of recent radio shows. Author and small business expert Barbara Weltman featured Becky on Build Your Business Radio (WSRadio.com): Build Your Business Radio Interview Brian Sullivan and Pat Madden featured Becky on The Entrepreneurial Moment radio show (KCTE in the Kansas […]
Longshoremen and the loss of geographic advantage
The rise of containerized shipping and intermodals has completely remade the shipping industry, and it serves as a model for the change in the entire economy. The New York Times profiled the changes to jobs at New York area ports, in On the Waterfront, the Rise of the Machines. The old way of distributing work […]