Direct from the EDPro Weblog, here’s the scoop on rural outsourcing: Rural areas are becoming more competitive with the expansion of communications networks. Here’s a good story about how some high tech jobs are being “outsourced” to rural regions. Read more. Increasingly, rural counties are seeing that communciations networks are critical to their ability to…
By Ed Morrison, EDPro Weblog Some technology companies are moving jobs into rural areas in order to cut costs. As an alternative to outsourcing, this strategy opens new opportunitiesfor rural communities. Read more. Last year, word of a new start-up in Arkansas, Rural Sourcing, hit the news. You can read more about the firm here….
More on the subject of combating “brain drain.” This time: how to get your alumni back, at any stage of life. Action Items for Everyone: Hold awe inspiring alumni reunions. Cross the Year boundaries and combine all the classes. Do this more than once every millenia. (Waynoka does it every 5 years.) Pick one online…
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