John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools Interview 01-07-10

Building Brainpower: Our Most Competitive Regional Asset

John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools in Cleveland, Ohio, shares a story of transforming education regardless of circumstance - the first step in revitalizing regional economic sustainability.

In this transcription of John's I-Open interview, he describes how he brings his entrepreneurial zeal and experience in building successful for profit enterprises to connect entrepreneurship and education, transforming workforce development for regional prosperity.

Learn about this successful, replicable investment model of innovation in charter school education celebrated this week, June 14, 2011 - "100% of E Prep's 8th graders and 100% of The Intergenerational School's 8th graders passed the Ohio Achievement READING Assessment. #1 in the county." - John Zitzner.

More about John's work and the work of others building successful charter schools at Breakthrough Charter Schools.

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Closing the Brainpower Gap: Transforming Regions One Student at a Time

John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools in Cleveland, Ohio, shares a story of transforming education regardless of circumstance - the first step in revitalizing regional economic sustainability.

You can visit E City to learn more about how this model of innovation in education works.

Breakthrough Charter Schools, a replicable model of innovation in charter school education, celebrated  "100% of E Prep's 8th graders and 100% of The Intergenerational School's 8th graders passed the Ohio Achievement READING Assessment. #1 in the county" - John Zitzner, June 2011.

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Social Media Tools Build Relationships

Brad Kleinman spoke with us in 2009 as Chief eMarketing Officer at WorkSmart eMarketing in Cleveland, Ohio to talk about how he discovered the value social media tools bring to building business relationships.

Brad is currently President, eMarketing Techniques. Visit www.eMarketingTechniques.com

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SmallBiz Net - a set on Flickr

Alice Merkel, photographer, contributed this photo set to I-Open. The photos expand our knowledge and understanding of the work of small business leader, Anita Campbell, CEO, Small Business Trends.

Anita contributed an insightful interview about her work as an Internet publisher and information resource serving entrepreneurs and small business leaders. The interview and transcription are available here at I-Open.

Special thanks to photographer Alice Merkel. You can find her work here on Flickr.

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Small Business: the Hidden Economy

Anita Campbell, CEO, SmallBizTrends.com is an online publisher focused on small business and entrepreneurs. Anita participates in Northeast Ohio's small business network, an expansive community of sole proprietors and small business owners.

Anita generously shares her insights and perspectives into what really makes regions and communities tick. She offers a thorough assessment and in depth view of the value entrepreneurs and small businesses bring to local and national markets.

Anita's story describes why she feels this network is overlooked and often unaccounted for, and how such a community of resilient leaders now generate a "flow of commerce" quite capable of re-invigorating the future of America and global enterprise.

Visit the flagship site Small Business Trends at smallbiztrends.com/ -- a knowledge resource for the small business industry.

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Photos by Alice Merkel
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Anita Campbell CEO SmallBizTrends.com

Meet Anita Campbell, an online publisher and leader in Northeast Ohio's small business and entrepreneurship networks. Anita shares what she is passionate about and where she focuses her work.

You can learn more about the flagship site, Small Business Trends at smallbiztrends.com/ -- a knowledge resource for the small business industry.

Anita has contributed additional in-depth interviews about the value entrepreneurs, sole proprietors, and small business leaders bring to economic prosperity we'll be posting here and in the following I-Open communities:

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Leading and Creating - a set on Flickr

David Deming, Sculptor and President of the Cleveland Institute of Art, contributed an interview to I-Open research about his work leading and creating.

The images tell the story of David as an artist, who with steadfast creativity, shapes the three-dimensional likeness of an inner soul with a personal signature that is warm and generous.

But between the stories of leadership and the re-making of spirits with tools and earth, lies the secret to innovation: creativity.

What can we learn from the disciplined habits of creatives? The efficiency? The destructionism? What can we learn from the doers who blindly transform ideas to projects feeling their way forward, to re-create education and re-wire government?

Be alert to the sights and sounds of creativity around you - these jewels, the assets that reside in every community and the most valuable of all social and economic investments to prosperity building.

Photos and their narratives by Alice Merkel

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In the 21st Century of Work: Collaborate, Support, and Affirm

Gloria Ferris, Civic Leader and Blogger, talks about the importance of behaving in ways that build trust and respect when working together to build community and enterprise projects.

As we move forward in the 21st Century of work we must collaborate, support and affirm one other to build sustainable relationships and meaningful projects for prosperity. Sustainability means sustaining all of us so we can all move forward together.

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New Models for Content Creation: Page2Pub

Guy Paddock, Social Networking Game Team Lead & Page2Pub engineer at the Open Publishing Lab (OPL) @RIT, describes Page2Pub, an innovative publishing tool to aggregate content from the Internet into a portable, print-ready format.

Open Publishing Lab projects like Page2Pub leverage the interactivity of the web to strengthen the connection between people and their ideas – open knowledge networks - to social and economic investment in communities and their regions.

Page2Pub is an Open Source software project that OPL hopes will provide others with as a platform for research into this area of publishing.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/projects/page2pub/about

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