A Place I’ll Remember – May 2020
A Place I'll Remember These days economic developers are literally the faces of the communities they represent as we continue to meet with one another in Zoom-ville. In-person visits and accidental and purposeful marketing initiatives have...
A Creative Exercise for You (and your stuck-at-home kids, too)
Uncategorized I can only imagine the challenge of suddenly working at home, and maybe home-schooling too. On top of that, now you have to figure out how to convey the same messages as many other organizations, and with great...
Be the Signal, Not the Noise
Uncategorized You’ve heard it before, let it guide you now. It’s getting noisy out there, so be mindful of who you communicate to and what messages you send. With breathtaking speed, the deluge of “what...
A Place I’ll Remember – April 2020
A Place I'll Remember Sometimes timing is everything – Savannah EDA hit the spot this year with comfort food just when we all needed it. For many years the Savannah Economic Development Authority has gifted location consultants with...
Another Kind of Spring Cleaning
Marketing Places No, I’m not talking about the kind that requires alcohol wipes, you don’t need me to add to that kind of advice. While we are all making our way through this COVID-19 situation, it seems to me that one of...
A Place I’ll Remember – March 2020
A Place I'll Remember Placemaking, the arts, and crowd sourcing, three powerful tools for economic developers. The Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership’s Make It Your Own Mural Fest has tapped into all of those things to create community...
A Place I’ll Remember – February 2020
A Place I'll Remember Here’s the headline that caught my eye: “Pflugerville ISD’s free job training teaches parents plumbing, nursing and more” Working with SkillPoint Alliance, the local school district is offering free...
Kate’s Book Report: Indistractable by Nir Eyal
The Distillery A lot of authors are trying to get our attention by writing about how to fight back against people trying to get our attention. This one appealed to me for two reasons. First, the author has created an interesting...