Books & Publications
Books and Workbooks
The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived: What’s Changed and How You Can Help.
This collection of essays and stories explores how big, often overlooked, changes in technology, economics and more are affecting local communities And it examines the changes in behavior and mindset that communities and community leaders will need to help the places they care about thrive in the coming era.
All presented in an often funny, sometimes touching series of stories from a long career on the front lines of the Local Economy Revolution.
Everybody Innovates Here analyzes the common structures and limitations of current approaches to generating entrepreneurship and innovation, and outlines a strategy for creating truly inclusive innovation systems that benefit the whole community.
Everybody Innovates Here: Accelerating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Across Your Entire Community
Crowdsourcing Wisdom examines the failures and unintended consequences of public participation or public engagement and guides you through an alternative approach that allows people to participate more actively and constructively in decisions about their community’s future.
Crowdsourcing Wisdom: A Guide to Doing Public Meetings that Actually Make Your Community Better
Why this Work Matters presents personal reflections written by 11 government and nonprofit leaders, focusing on their motivations and challenges in the face of communities that often discredit or oppose them.
Why This Work Matters: Wisdom from the People Who Are Making Communities Better
Public Engagement has never been more important … and easier… and more difficult. Especially when it comes to the online avenues that residents demand. This book provides hands-on guidance for using online tools, as well as a framework for creating effective engagement, online or off.
Tell, Ask, Discuss, Decide: Using Digital Platforms to Engage People in the Future of your Community
A ChangeMaker’s Workbook for getting Future Ready Now
Struggling to make sense of why the old tools of the trade don’t work anymore? This lightweight guide walks you through five macro=trends and five ways that those evolutions are changing what we have to do.
Even when we don’t like it.
With pages of guided reflections that help you make sense of what this all means to your work - and to you.
Don’t Screw Up Your Program
Too many program managers never get taught how to actually do that — and what they do pick up is often based on out-of-date assumptions.
No wonder so many programs make everyone miserable. Including you.
This combination book and workbook walks you through the new realities of program managment and helps you prepare — prepare for a successful program, and a healthy career after this program is over.
Books and Workbooks
The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived: What’s Changed and How You Can Help.
This collection of essays and stories explores how macro-changes in technology, economics and more are affecting local communities, and examines the changes in behavior and mindset that communities and community leaders will need to help the places they care about thrive in the coming era.
Everybody Innovates Here analyzes the common structures and limitations of current approaches to generating entrepreneurship and innovation, and outlines a strategy for creating truly inclusive innovation systems that benefit the whole community.
Everybody Innovates Here: Accelerating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Across Your Entire Community
Crowdsourcing Wisdom examines the failures and unintended consequences of public participation or public engagement and provides detailed instructions on an alternative approach that allows people to participate more actively and constructively in decisions about their community’s future.
Crowdsourcing Wisdom: A Guide to Doing Public Meetings that Actually Make Your Community Better
Why this Work Matters presents personal reflections written by 11 government and nonprofit leaders, focusing on their motivations and challenges in the face of communities that often discredit or oppose them.
Why This Work Matters: Wisdom from the People Who Are Making Communities Better
Public Engagement has never been more important … and easier… and more difficult. Especially when it comes to the online avenues that residents demand. This book provides hands-on guidance for using online tools, as well as a framework for creating effective engagement, online or off.
Tell, Ask, Discuss, Decide: Using Digital Platforms to Engage People in the Future of your Community
Short Shots
The First Principles of the Local Economy Revolution
OnlinePublic Engagement 3.0 (Short Shot)
The Secrets of Retail District Revitalization
Blogs
Blog content ends up on multiple sites, including this one, Wise Fool Press and the books, Trep House and Econogy, as well as Medium. The Wise Economy Substack newsletter, Future Here Now, also has regular original content.
And a Google search on “Della Rucker” will turn up random interesting stuff as well. You don’t know until you try.
