Rose Baker and David Passmore made two presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of Workforce Investment Boards held at University Park, Pennsylvania during June 2007:

• Creating a snapshot of your local economy and workforce
• Methods for analyzing regional workforces

Rose Baker and David Passmore were interviewed about uses of Web 2.0 and social computing resources at the 2007 Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) Symposium at Penn State. The interview was vodcast and made available through iTunes and as a Quicktime streaming movie.

A click on the image below navigates to the streaming movie linked through the TLT Symposium blog:

Rose Baker and David Passmore made a presentation, "Workforce Data: Its Meaning and Use," to the Tri-County Workforce Investment Board in Kittanning, Pennsylvania on 15 June 2007.

Rose Baker, Program Manager of Penn State’s new Workforce Assessment Center, and David Passmore, Director of the Institute, made a teleconference presentation on 16 November 2006 at Measuring Your Talent and Organization: Beyond the Basics in the CEO 2006 Teleconference Series on Human Resources and Metrics sponsored by the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. An audio feed occurred over a leased teleconference line. Download slides from:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/dlp/usc

Through this page we provided an interface by which slides were "pushed" at the participants through their web browsers. Slides also were available as a large Adobe PDF file. Also, slides were provided in Flash animation files, which were served in two formats through SlideShare.net.

Rose Baker and David L. Passmore traveled to Denver, Colorado, on 13 September 2006 to present, "Information Markets: Exciting New Possibilities for Organization Strategy Through Future Forecasting," to the Rocky Mountain Human Resource Planning Society at the University of Denver’s Phipps Mansion.

Rose Baker and David Passmore, Director of the Institute, presented Forecasting ROI Of Continuing Education Programs & Services at the Penn State Continuing Education Professional Development Conference at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park Campus at Penn State on 13 June 2006:
Forecasting ROI Of Continuing Education Programs & Services

Rose Baker and David Passmore, Director fo the Institute, made a presentation, "Tools for Identifying Training Needs," yesterday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, at the 2006 WEDnetPA Training and Development Conference. A link to a web site with supporting materials for this presentation:

Tools for Identifying Training Needs

Rose Baker and David Passmore, Director of the Institute, presented Research and Analysis on Local Economies at Moving a Demand-Driven Innovation System Forward through Industry Partnerships: A Symposium for Planners in Workforce Development, Education, and Economic Development sponsored by the Pennsylvania Association of Workforce Investment Boards at the Penn Stater Conference Center on the University Park Campus at Penn State on 14 June 2006: