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Library’s Print Magazine Is a Community Must-Read! Here Is Their Secret Formula.

Super Library Marketing

Her passion for horses and a business prospect brought her to Ocala, Florida where she worked primarily within the public and nonprofit sectors before joining the library in 2009. The first issue of our quarterly WORDS magazine was in the spring of 2009 before I joined the library system,” recalls Karen. “I

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DC Artomatic is a big arts exhibition: but not oriented to building the arts and culture ecosystem long term

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Despite Artomatic playing host to — and in some cases advancing the careers of — many amazing, well-respected artists, there’s a long history of the event being trashed by the art-reviewing press, often unfairly, because it has no bar to entry. The work is not curated. Is it any good?

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Maui Wildfire Disaster Recovery

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

In order to respond to this event, here on this podcast I invited Sean Scott to come and share his expertise with disaster recovery. Most of his experience has been involved in the rebuilding of well over 10,000 homes and businesses damaged by fires, floods, storms, and other natural or man-made disaster events.

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Digital health in the Asia-Pacific: Making services more sustainable

AWS Public Sector Blog

Take the Asia-Pacific region, where spending on healthcare per person is now 80 percent higher than it was in 2009. Response to major health events such as COVID-19 includes contact tracing and distribution of test results. They need sustainable solutions to address affordability. billion over the decade to USD 2.5 billion by 2026.

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The Impact of GDP shocks on Fertility Rates

The Lowe Down

The article contributes to the line of research on recessions and birth rates by constructing a novel dataset of 150 countries and using an event study analysis to explore how fertility rates are impacted by the trough of recessions. Overall, 22% of the selected shocks are from 2009. Figure 1: Fertility Rate Growth by Continent.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There were a series of articles by smaller communities, about how the quality of their city as an events-sports destination was high, despite the size of the community or whether or not they actually had a sports team, for example Fort Worth doesn't (" Here’s why Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena was named Billboard’s No. 1 venue in the world."

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The problem is that even though we talk about restaurant or sports events patrons (like attendees of baseball games) also spending money on retail as part of their trips, increasingly people aren't interested in doing so. see It's Hardly Sportin' ). Note that last weekend was Celebrate Petworth, the annual community festival.