Email Marketing Tips

By Jami Gibson This month, Whittaker Associates and the Pro Learning Lab hosted an email marketing workshop webinar focused on creating professional and effective email marketing campaigns. Our speaker, Timothy Haines with TechBridge, LLC, showed us useful resources...

The Next Generation

By Zach Rehfus A new school year has begun (my senior year of college!), and I have already noticed a few trends among my fellow students. Walking out of my class today, I felt like I was in a movie, students lining the walls down the hallway waiting for their classes...

The Future of Work and the Jobs It Creates

By Dean Whittaker While preparing to teach at the Economic Development Institute next week, I came across three very interesting TED and TEDx talks. The first TED talk I want to recommend is by an MIT economist, Andrew McAfee. He succinctly describes our current...

NUMB3RS

By Sharad KC The Edward Snowden saga has given us a lot of political drama, another reason to dislike big government, and a negative aspect of the use of technology, but above all, it has showed us the real power of numbers and their value in the age of big data. We...

Cities of the Future

By Jami Gibson I recently watched another inspiring TED talk given by Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His presentation is based upon his goal to ensure the city’s future for generations to come. Paes presents four “commandments” that will help...