Information Insights

Strategic Planning & Facilitation Projects

Strategic Planning & Facilitation Staff

Company News

Joan Kane’s poetry included in Words and Pictures exhibit

Former Information Insights’ staffer Joan Kane was featured in an article in the Life section of this Sunday’s Anchorage Daily News. The article reviews the Words and Pictures exhibit that opens this week at Anchorage’s MTS gallery. One of Joan’s poems is included in the exhibit.

Joan is an emerging Alaska poet whose work has recently also been included in the anthology, Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment by University of Alaska Press, alongside such Alaska writing luminaries as John Haines and Nick Jans. In the ADN article, Joan talks about how strong images and “the sonics of a poem” are important to her work. You can hear that for yourself in her poem “Due North,” which Joan read recently on KSKA. She says, “I enjoy writing poems that provide another way of entering what can be perceived as a flat landscape.” Joan wrote “Due North” in anticipation of returning to Alaska after five years of exile in New York City.

Joan is an Inupiaq Eskimo with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo. Joan holds degrees from Harvard College and Columbia University. Read more of Joan’s work at joankanewriting.com.

Information Insights announces Fairbanks community energy survey in partnership with CCHRC

Ellen Ganley presenting at the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce

Information Insights and the Cold Climate Housing Research Center are partnering to conduct a survey of Fairbanks residents on how they plan to cope with high energy costs this winter.

The survey will be conducted in two parts, an initial survey this fall to gather information about how residents are planning to handle the rising cost of energy, and a follow-up survey in the spring to find out how higher energy costs actually impacted residents.

Chris Rogers controlling the Consensor presentation

We announced this survey at the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 during a Chamber Spotlight on Information Insights. During the presentation we used our Consensor audience response technology to ask attending chamber members questions similar to those on the survey and display the results instantly.

You can view the results of the Chamber Spotlight by downloading this PDF:

Information Insights Fairbanks Chamber Spotlight Consensor

Chamber participants using Consensor keypads

Chamber members watching and interacting with the presentation

100 Consensor keypads were handed out to Chamber members

Citings: Information Insights to lead leadership class

Leadership Fairbanks, the new leadership course from the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce, was featured in today’s column by Dermot Cole. Information Insights’ staff will facilitate sessions of Leadership Fairbanks, which runs from October through May. The course is intended for both would-be and established leaders in the community. In addition to covering the theory and practical application of leadership skills, the course offers participants the opportunity to work with a local mentor from a group of high-level Fairbanks leaders. Applications for the program are available at the Chamber of Commerce website. Scholarships are available.