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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

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Fans line up outside the arena before the opening night game between the Washington Capitals and the Boston Bruins at Capital One Arena on October 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images).

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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

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. -- " Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago ," 2024 - " The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities ," 2022 -- " What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city?

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

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Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it.

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Public sector customer service and the adoption of cloud technology

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Rob Irons, Senior Manager at Hinduja Global Solutions, discusses whether public sector customer service has improved with the adoption of cloud technology. When I think about how things have changed, I have to cast my mind back to 2005 when as a Civil Servant, I co-authored ‘Better Practice Guide- lines for Government Contact Centres.

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Madison Wisconsin should be rethinking its pedestrian "district"

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I wrote about Boulder's in 2005, " Now I know why Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is the exception that proves the rule about the failures of pedestrian malls." The lesson that I learned from the article about Boulder is that it isn't just about the design, and having lots of pedestrians, it's also about on-going management.

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Interesting study on litter focuses on the brand of the trash

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And I wrote more pieces over the years. -- " Every litter bit hurts ," 2005 -- " Litter revisited ," 2006 Photo by Inked78. It was actually a great thing to do for creating visibility for the organization, for getting a handle on the problem, and for volunteer recruitment. 700 block of H Street NE.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

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Though I am privileged to be the general manager, it’s your Metro, so please let us know how we can serve you better. I am empowering all staff members to own our service outcomes and to proudly represent America’s transit system. As you travel the region this fall, I hope you will choose Metro.

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