The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Feb 22-24, 2013. What good news will you add to the brag basket?
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Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back, you hide your good news and accomplishments that might inspire others. Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing.
What can you do in the Brag Basket?
- introduce yourself
- share some great news from this week
- congratulate a friend
- laugh about something wonderful that you tried that failed
- applaud for each other
Speak up and add yourself or another deserving soul in the comments. It lets you meet each other a bit. Reading each others’ stories brings us a bit closer to being a community.
How does it work? You write a comment on this post. We all cheer, and everyone feels great.
This is not an ad. (I delete the ads.) If you talk more about the people involved than the things, you’ll be fine.
It’s a conversation with friends. So jump in. And remember to cheer for each other.
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I’ve got a two for one to put in the Brag Basket. Not only does North Platte have a new co-working site/business incubator, but the young woman, Michelle Stephens behind the project actually convinced the Quality Growth Fund overseers and the City Council (who can best be described as grumpy old men, tho not all are old, nor all men) to grant her $30,700 in Quality Growth Funds to help with her operation. It is called POP (People Oriented Planning) Coworking. If you click on the link, and go to the talkback section below, you’ll get a taste of what she (and our community) is up against.
Here is the link I meant to include above: http://www.npbulletin.com/index.asp?show=news&action=readStory&storyID=24873&pageID=3
Congratulations to Michelle and to the entire town of North Platte! The dogs keep barking, but the co-working train keeps moving on!
I’m going to submit another one for you today too, which is a kind of good news/bad news. Nebraska’s state Chamber recently underwent an initiative titled “Nebraska Ideas”. They created a mind mixer website to generate conversation all across the state. The idea was to put forward ideas to help make the state better for the NExt Generation. They collected everything and distilled the suggestions into 100 NExt Generation Ideas. They have recently released the report, which is good news. I covered my thoughts on some of their more tourism related proposals in my blog: http://www.outbacknebraska.com/2013/02/nebraskas-next-generation-ideas.html. However, there are a lot of tax and regulation suggestions. The bad news part of it, is they’ve dropped it and have seemed to walk away. Maybe they have a plan, but they have a very inactive facebook page and there hasn’t been any other conversation about it either. There is no road map for achieving these goals. Hopefully we’ll see some real advancement for rural Nebraska come out of it.
I’m with you and will take the good news end of this: look at all the cool ideas you can take, borrow, use as inspiration, and put into practice in your own small ways. The best solutions always happen when local people make them happen.
Thanks Becky, yes, there ARE a lot of good things in the report, and for the most part it did come from grassroots Nebraska. Looking forward to see where it’s heading, and what I can do to help it.
I’ve got some exciting news and will be happy to brag about it. I’ve accepted the Executive Director position at the Webster City Iowa Chamber of Commerce! A town of 8,000 people who recently lost their industry Electrolux and are looking to do more work with small businesses and creating a community that is different from what they are used to. It’s a perfect fit for me as I’m a bit older and bring some experience/maturity to the table, but I also am very knowledgeable on tech/marketing things! I start March 4 (of course I’m already working on things) and thrilled.
Congratulations, Deb! I’m so excited for you, and for Webster City!
Deb,
You are bringing so many skills, experiences, and good ideas with you to Webster City. But the best one of all is enthusiasm!
It’s great to hear you are so excited at the prospect of taking so many challenges! Webster City is very fortunate.