Creative Arts & Economy Blog | Creative Vitality Suite

Nov 21

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Cultivate and Communicate Your Creative Economy Webinar

The CVSuite team and current users held a discussion around long-term uses of creative labor market data on November 13, 2018 at 12:00pm MST (2:00pm EST). Check out the webinar to gain a better understanding of how data can move your organization forward through programming, reporting, and marketing communications. Special... read more →

November 21, 2018
Creative Economy, CVI, Data Sets, General

Nov 14

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CVSuite Client Spotlight: Interview with Boulder Arts Commission

By: Matt Chasansky, Manager of the Office of Arts & Culture Client Spotlight is the newest blog series that focuses on current users of CVSuite and how they are implementing the tool to move their organization forward. The CVSuite team contacted these organizations to find more about their organization, long-term... read more →

November 14, 2018
Client Spotlight

Aug 27

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Use Data for Better Decision-Making | Guest Blog by Constance DeVereaux

Use Data for Better Decision-Making We Can’t Always Predict the Future, but with Data, We Can Try Constance DeVereaux, Ph.D. The biggest trend in leadership studies these days is training future leaders in the skills of good decision-making. According to Decision-Making Strategies for Leaders, “decisive leaders stand out.” In the... read more →

August 27, 2018
Creative Economy, Data Quality, General

Jul 23

Identifying Peer Regions

Selecting peer regions to which to compare your region’s creative economic growth can be a daunting task. The first step to identifying a peer region is to determine what your region’s economic and creative industry goals are and then look for a place that has a similar outlook. Other factors... read more →

July 23, 2018
Creative Economy

Jun 29

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CVSuite Data Dives: Analyzing a Region’s Age Composition

CVSuite™ Data Dives are designed to help those using the CVSuite online data tool explore and put to work the wide array of data in the tool. This month’s Data Dive focuses on how users of the tool can understand their region’s age demographic makeup and what that means for... read more →

June 29, 2018
Creative Economy, Data Sets, Regions

Jun 01

Arts and Culture, An Integral Element in Economic Development Webinar

On May 24, the Creative Vitality Suite hosted the Arts and Culture, An Integral Element in Economic Development webinar. Kyle Wiese, project manager at Thurston County Economic Development Council, and Debbie-Maranger-Menk, director of consulting at Emsi, discussed the trends on culture and the creative industry's impact on economic development. Watch the... read more →

June 1, 2018
Creative Economy

May 15

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CVSuite Data Dives – Identifying Trends

CVSuite™ Data Dives are designed to help those using the CVSuite online data tool explore and put to work the wide array of data in the tool. This month’s Data Dive centers on the identification of data trends and includes suggestions regarding how to use trend data. While we cannot know... read more →

May 15, 2018
Creative Economy, Data Sets, General

Apr 09

CVSuite Data Dives: The Creative Vitality Index Explained

CVSuite™ Data Dives is our newest initiative to help users explore the wide array of data in the tool and illustrate ways to tell a data-driven story. This month, the CVSuite team will dive deeper into ways to use the Creative Vitality™ Index (CVI™) to compare a region to the... read more →

April 9, 2018
Creative Economy

Mar 22

Overcoming the Limitations of NASAA’s Creative Economy State Profiles

NASAA’s Creative Economy State Profiles The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), recently released a new online tool called “Creative Economy State Profiles.” The tool is based on the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA) work that was... read more →

March 22, 2018
Creative Economy

Feb 21

Creative Districts: An Economic Catalyst Webinar

Creative districts have proven to be a successful tactic for driving economic growth and revitalizing local communities. Districts leverage the assets in areas of culture, creativity, and diversity to develop sustainable economic centers. In this webinar, Margaret Hunt, executive director of Colorado Creative Industries, and Karen Hanan, executive director of... read more →

February 21, 2018
Creative Economy