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How to manage email flow from the Local Food Systems website

Submitted by Ross MacDonald on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 3:04pm

You can easily control the flow of email from this site.  

Here's how:  

1. Go to the home page of the Local Food Systems website.

2. Check your login status by looking at the Log in/out button on the right hand side menu, the fourth button under "My Accounts."

3. If it says "Log out," then you are automatically logged in. Go to Step 4.  If it says "Log in," click it.  Enter your username and password. Go to step 4.

Assessing Progress of Groups Developing Business Clusters

Submitted by Ross MacDonald on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 10:44am
This third post on learning support for business development considers the issue of timing the delivery of “Stealth Curriculum” for maximum impact with minimum intru

Stealth Curriculum for Local Food Systems and Ag-bioenergy Business Collaborations

Submitted by Ross MacDonald on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 11:46am

 

Embedding learning opportunities into the development of local food systems and ag-bioscience businesses and business clusters is one of several key strategies for enriching local and regional economies.  Any local food system or ag-bioenergy development effort will require significant collaborative skill and effective use of a range of face-to-face and electronic communication tools.    Assuming such a topic to be of general interest, this post introduces the concept of "Stealth Curriculum" to all site users.

INTRODUCTION

Pragmatics of Knowledge Transfer for Business and Business Cluster Development

Submitted by Ross MacDonald on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 5:51am

 Pragmatics of knowledge transfer for business and business cluster development:

1. What does the curriculum look like?

2. How does it work?

3. What are some example topics? 

Announcing LFS help menu

Submitted by Ross MacDonald on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 1:08pm

The Local food Systems (LFS) website is dedicated to supporting and expanding a network of people who are building local and regional food systems in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and beyond.

To that end, Sam Rose and I have developed a "help menu" mechanism for the LFS site that can be accessed from any page on the site.  Clicking on "Help with this page"  on the right hand side of any page opens a page that you can size so that it appears side by side with the appropriate web page.

Local Food Systems Virtual Business Park

Submitted by Ross MacDonald on Sat, 01/10/2009 - 5:02pm

The re-launch of our website “local food systems.org” marks the transition from a start-up to a build-up phase in our local food systems project. In our start-up phase, we organized, promoted new relationships, set goals, found funding, and supported communication with an active website. In this second phase, funded in large part by the USDA-SCRI grant, we focus on business development related to local and regional foods using web-based tools and our growing experience with them as a key set of levers.<

Consider our considering

Submitted by Ross MacDonald on Thu, 09/18/2008 - 11:32am

This Friday, September 19th, many of you will gather for the Second Annual Stinner Summit Meeting outside Wooster, Ohio.  Committed people will be engaged in creating start-up energy around important ideas and so we might consider the mental frameworks we use to process information and plan actions.  Let me briefly tell you about three of them. 

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