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Jan

10

Will Cuyahoga county-wide dispatch study lead to any mergers or consolidations?

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That certainly is a huge desire on the part of many taxpayers (elected as well as non-), as well as something many taxpayers actually do not want to see (again, elected as well as non-).  Throughout Ohio, communities have examined dispatch configuration as a place to find ways to continue the service but at a lower cost, and hopefully at the same or better service level.  The success of doing that varies as much as the desires to do it or not do it.

What’s been your experience?

Here’s the article and here’s the study. I have not read the study yet, but here are two interesting charts from the article:

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:46 am January 10th, 2012 in Cleveland+, Government, Politics, Transparency | Comments Off 

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Jan

9

Feed your inner junkie: 14 week, $50 Campaign Battleground course w/the pros

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Mike McIntyre and Ohio.com are highlighting a University of Akron course, Campaign Battleground, that will be offered Thursday evenings for 2.5 hrs, 14 weeks with John Green, Gerald Austin and Mark Weaver starting this Thursday (1/12/12) that sounds like a political junkie’s dream:

This course is about the 2012 American national elections, with a special focus on the presidential campaign.  In the spring of 2012 the course will focus on the primaries.  We will follow the campaign carefully and investigate the strategy, tactics and conduct for the major contenders in “real time,” that is, as the campaigns are taking place.  A special focus will be placed on Ohio, a key battle ground state. No class March 15, 2012 spring break.

If I could find that kind of time, I’d be blogging a lot more about the same and other topics but if you go, please consider starting a blog and writing about the class and how it’s making you think, etc.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:26 am January 9th, 2012 in Education, Ohio, Politics, WH2012, White House 2012 | Comments Off 

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Jan

9

Getting here from there: What being platform agnostic really looks like

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Originally posted on my Facebook page:

Just to show, again, how integrated consuming & producing news & information is with the use of social media:

1. I read about Inside Business’s Power 100 in the Sat. PD

2. I looked online to see that only one woman made the top 10 under 40

3. I blogged about that, then tweeted it, FB’d it & emailed one of the mag’s writers to learn more

4. This morning, I got followed on Twitter (happily so) by the editor of that mag, Steve Gleydura, who edits other prominent NE Ohio publications.

5. Viewing his twitter timeline, I clicked on a link to a video clip of him talking about the Cleveland mag’s most interesting people.

6. While watching & listening to that, I searched on my iPad for that issue to see who else was on the list. First thing: a good array of folks re: age, gender, race, occupation etc. Very nice. But really nice? Two women I know and think a lot of: Hallie Bram and Stefanie Penn Spear.

SO – kudos to all, esp. to Hallie and Stefanie

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:24 am January 9th, 2012 in Cleveland+, Diversity, Media, social media | Comments Off 

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Jan

8

(Updated) Inside Business Mag’s Top 10 Under 40: Nine men, One woman? Really?

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UPDATE: I’ve been asked to offer some ideas on who I would put on this list. I’ll do that but also make suggestions about who IB should be sure they’re asking, especially since the NEO business community is one with which I’ve probably had the least interaction over time.  Who would you suggest?? Please email me or leave names in the comment section.

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It’s just another list, I know, but still. I haven’t seen the print version yet of Inside Business with the Power 100 (Cuyahoga County Executive Ed Fitzgerald leads), but that top 10 under 40, with just one woman – we should all find that truly alarming if it’s at all representative of 1) who we are supposed to think are leaders and 2) if we agree with the definition of “leader” as defined by this segment, why just 10% of the top 10 under 40 are women.  Tri-C and Case Western Reserve University are headed by women (and both listed in the top 10 women list), we have many judges who are women, doctors, philanthropists, clergy, public service, and yes, business.

I’m going to tickle Erick Trickey and see what light he can shed on this (thanks in advance, Erick).

Here’s the description of how it was done for the list published in 2011:

We started our search for the region’s most powerful by turning to those who know power best. We surveyed the leaders on our previous Power 100 list, asking them who wields the most clout in Northeast Ohio today, who gained power in 2010, who lost it and which up-and-comers are already proving themselves. We also invited the business enthusiasts on Inside Business’ e-mail list to offer suggestions and tips, which led us to trends and shifts that our sources in Northeast Ohio’s corridors of power confirmed. Finally, we applied our news judgment about the events and forces that affected our region in 2010 and our sense of which men and women most influenced the region’s economy and which are poised to do the same in the new year.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:25 pm January 8th, 2012 in Business, Cleveland+, CuyahogaCounty, Diversity, Executive, Gender, leadership, Politics, Women | 3 Comments 

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Jan

7

Watch this and think, okay?

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Hattip and gratitude to Laina Dawes at BlogHer.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:09 pm January 7th, 2012 in Race, Social Issues, Women | 3 Comments 

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