On February 23rd and 24th, the North Fork Development Project hosted a series of small group interviews to identify opportunities for development along the north branch of the Elkhorn River through the City of Norfolk. Interview participants represented a cross section of the Norfolk community, including business and property owners, artists, teenagers, young professionals, tourism representatives, educators and interested community members. Each group responded to the same questions about the… Continue

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Five Ways to Spot a Christmas Locavore
An article highlighting a definition of a Christmas locavore and how you can spot one.
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In July 2008, Dave Baldwin from Ohio, Larry Wenzl from Nebraska, and I spoke at the World Future Society Conference in Washington, D.C., and introduced the concept of using the virtual world, Second Life, as one way to build connections among people interested in seeding transformative ideas for the 21st century. We were very pleased with the response, and have since used Second Life as a key platform to have local citizens begin to imagine a future that is not in their traditional thinking or… Continue

Please refer to an earlier blog post on the Visioning 2026.com website. Our business is investigating and experimenting with advertising on social network websites. I'm working on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. We are already using Search Engine Optimization techniques and Pay Per Click (Google Adwords) but feel we're missing out on people using the social networking… Continue