Business Networking is conversation. The mission of The
Network could be rewritten to state that it exists to bring people together
so that they can have conversations about the kind of enterprise
development that leads to economic development happen
Walt
Howe of Sanibel
Island, FL once indicated that the Internet exists
as a result of visionary thinkers seeing ... great
potential value in allowing computers to share information (source
of quote). Sharing implies freely given.
A Brief History of the Internet / http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
Internet Society
The Internet Explained http://www.searchandgo.com/articles/internet/net-explained-1.php
SearchandGo.com
It operates in much
the same way as a ...
public library:
Many
regional and local public libraries are significant contributors within resource supplier networks dedicated
to enterprise and economic development because of the Internet.
Libraries may have information about locations as
defined in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary, copies
of community
profiles, for example. Libraries that operate with a best
practice approach are mindful of the purview
of area
and local economic development representatives as well as that
of their chambers
of commerce that supply location
data to prospects. The
best libraries online have knowledgeable staff
available
to
guide users to appropriate contacts for
obtaining additional information as well as assistance to prospects.
Regional and local public libraries as well as those offering business
and enterprise development information and location data at institutions
of higher learning
are listed among location data suppliers in the .network resource
file:
About
Economic Development, Page 4.
The Enterprise
and Economic Development Library online has sections
dedicated to free-access business
resources, enterprise
development and
locations for site
selection.
Use the search engine at the top of this page
to Google
the Web for location
data suppliers.
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Search the Web for a library with information about a location
of interest to you:
Copy and paste the following italicized suggestions to the search
engine above or use the Google/.network search
engine. Keep
quotation marks where you see them. Substitute the location identity of a place of interest to you for the word location. CLICK
HERE for additional suggestions
of keyword
searches of interest to .network users.
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the Web for ... location public library
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the Web for ... location "public library"
community data
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the Web for ... location public library "community
profile"
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the Web for ... location public library "economic
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the Web for ... location "public
library" small
business development
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the Web for ... location "community
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selection
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the Web for ... location
"community profile" chamber of commerce
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the Web for ... location
"community profile" economic development
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the Web for ... location
"business resources" college library
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the Web for ... location
"business resources" university library
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the Web for ... location
"business resources" "community college"
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the Web for ... location
economic development "community profile"
 Bibliography
of resources about libraries and local economic
development (source contact).
Institutions
of higher learning are sometimes in the mix of
location
data suppliers working together for community, enterprise and
economic development in an area.
Their libraries may be open to prospects looking
for information about places
of interest. There may have community
profiles available, for example.
Their business schools may reach out and offer enterprise
development resources to
the same target
audience that The Network serves. Community
spirited institutions often have outreach
programs that include support for economic development. Library contacts
at institutions of higher learning are a good place to start if you want
to find out what programs and resources are available. Like the public
libraries that operate with a best practice approach, colleges
and universities should have library staff who can answer questions
and offer guidance on resource suppliers in the areas where they are
located.
Page up to suggestions for searching for institutions of higher learning
with missions similar to that of The Network.
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find a local chamber of commerce:
Chambers
of commerce are generally well know for being in position
to supply information about their locales.
Many chambers house area
and local development representatives. Others have alert staff
who know how to guide members of the .network user group to area
and local economic development representatives. Chambers are
listed among location data suppliers.
Use the suggested line #5 above to search the
Web for a chamber of commerce for a place
of interest. The following links are also useful in searching
chambers of commerce.
Association of American
Chambers of Commerce in Latin America
... (AACCLA) lists chambers based in 21 Latin America
and the Caribbean
Chamber Find.com
... has file listing reasons
to find and use a chamber; also, travel, business, finance,
and other links that guide a search for something other than location name.
Chamber-of-Commerce.com
... search for chamber
locations or names in International
Chamber of Commerce and City-State-Province Directory. Has a tourism.** focus.
The Online Chambers / The Internet
Connection
... covers national chambers around the world. Also
regional and local chambers of commerce in Canada and the USA.
World
Chamber Network
... worldwide search ... Global Chamber-Directory
with over 12,000 CCI. CCI stands for Chamber of Commerce and
Industry as defined
in the WCN website
To help you search for a library (or chamber of commerce) in a place
of interest we offer the following suggested keyword
combinations. Try copying and pasting at the top
of this page.
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Economic Development Tomorrow
... a 1991 publication of the American
Economic Development Council, and source
of the quote: ... economic development
practice may be considered as a specialized form of marketing.
Economic
Development / Links to Marketing Resources
Marketing
Terms.com
definition
of economic development market research
definition
of economic development marketing research
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economic development market research
... the objective collection and analysis of a set of data about
a place for
the purpose of understanding its location
area as a market and,
in addition, for the purpose of organizing the data either
for advertising
and promotions or distribution to prospects.
This specialized area of market research also includes the systematic
process of collecting and analyzing statistics and other factual
information about locations considered
as competitors in attracting economic development opportunities. Those
who are responsible for promoting locations
should have an agenda of market research covering all that they represent
as well as the places with which they compete. The practice
of economic development within a free-enterprise system is carried
out in an environment of competitiveness. The site
selection process, which is a source of economic
development, is sophisticated to the extend that research is called for
to support comparative
analysis. It behooves the local
development representative to understand how to conduct and use
both types of research for the purposes indicated in this paragraph.
See the article, Need
Market Research? Check Your Local Economic Development Organization (2007),
by Anita Campbell at
the Small Business Trends
website.
Another definition of economic development market research covers
the process of seeking opportunities. In this case the market is where
the prospects are
located. The research is a systematic collection and analysis of information
related to target
industries more.
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economic development marketing research
Given that an association of US economic developers at one time choose marketing as
the operative word to describe what practitioners do,
the important role of research is emphasized here.
Economic development marketing research is an activity that contributes
to making informed decisions about where to commit limited resources
for attracting the attention of prospects to a location. Marketing research,
in general, is the development of useful information for identifying and
defining opportunities to igniting interests in something so as to facilitate
its positioning in
commercial transactions. Marketing research has to do with putting something,
such as funds, in place for an intended affect. Market research has to
do with understanding a place that is an environment for commercial transactions
in terms of specific products or services.
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Economic Development Futures Web Journal
... a blog located at www.don-iannone.com/edfutures (the
URL was a dead end at last check). According to its operator the Economic
Development Futures Web Journal produced ...
information and insights into economic development practice ... Sometime
around February 2007 Don Iannoe posted the statement ... My
interest in the blog's current content and format have waned ... moving in new
directions ... This paragraph acknowledges Iannoe's four-year contribution to
the development of a body
of knowledge about the practice of economic
development through his blog. There are several places in the .network websites
where resources and quotes from Iannoe's blog can be found.
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location:
... in site
selection jargon meaning to effect
a location as in making a change from one place to another or, in
the case of a new
venture startup, choosing a location to bring about the end
to a
project. A location is
a place or header
for information at, for example, an EDO website.
The explanations above about the meaning of location was originally organized,
in part, along with an anwer to the question: What does BLISS
stand for as an acronym associated with location
work? Using the search
engine at the top of this page, we queried the Web for BLISS "site
selection"
to find Business Location Incentives and
Site Selection as the meaning of the initials at the website of BDO Seidman,
Boston, MA (Chicago, IL).
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tourism marketing is a form of economic development:
There are several sources of information online about tourism as economic
development:
Tourism
emerging as a catalyst for economic development is the
title of a July 28, 2007 article by Rich Harrill that that appeared in
The Greenville
News, Greenville, SC. Harrill stated that the nature of tourism employment
is changing, ... shedding it low-wage
image through entrepreneurship spawned by tourism-related industries
and the development of a tourism-oriented
government sector. This is encouraging to economic
development practitioners who see themselves as facilitating
the creation of opportunities for higher paying jobs in the locations they
representsee
economic
development's relationship to job creation as one of the definitions
available through the Economic
Development Network website.
A review at the University of Michigan website of preparation and results
in a community before and after the 2002 Winter Olympics titled Park
City , Utah 's Successful Combination of Tourism and Recreation
Activities
Creates
Healthy Economic
Development (by Nicki Sitko) is a resource for those interested in
sports and tourism as economic development. Two additional sports/tourism
related resources are an online
announcement of a 2005 seminar in Zagreb,
Croatia and the enterprise
and economic development guide developed
after the 1996 Summer Olympics discussed as follows:
Tourism
as Economic Development: A Brief Guide for Communities and Enterprise
Developers was published as a paper for sharing
resources with .network users as
well as serving as the concluding report to the Georgia Tourism Division
following its writer's development of a network for
prospect development in advance of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. This
resource addresses the fundamentals
of economic development. For
example, it points to the
fact that economic
developers are specialized marketers of locations. The
same can be said for those engaged in tourism
promotion. They are specialized marketers
If
you are interested in sharing resources in the area of tourism or
any other enterprise
and economic development efforts, including site
location work, The Network welcomes your
input.
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Reed Business / Manufacturing.net:
Reed Business, www.reedbusiness.com,
is a resource free subscription magazines
courtesy of Manufacturing.net For your information www.manufacturing.net is
a website that is part of Advantage Business Media which was founded
with the acquisition of Reed Business Information's New Product Division.
Among the magazines of Reed Business are ...
Building
Design and Construction
Control
Engineering
Industrial
Distribution
Logistics
Management
Manufacturing
Business Technology
Modern
Materials Handling
Plant
Engineering
Purchasing
more
Building Operating Management is acknowledged for
having provided The Network with information about Building
Owners and Managers International (BOMI). For information
about the publication and others that are related, go to www.facilitiesnet.com.
The Google/.network search engine is provided below
with radio buttons to select various websites, such as FacilitiesNet.
The websites listed, with the exception of
the first three, were collected over several years from links at the
BOMA website, some of which are are now broken. Select the logo to
learn more about Google in the .network glossary.
Is the Internet conversation?
One of the most popular uses of the Internet is conversation. Both
small and large communities have formed to give users a forum for discussion.
Successful on-line communities tend to have hosts, allow users to self-identify
and keep overcrowding to minimum ... (source: The
Economist, 1997) as reported by CBS
Interactive/BNET).
Using the Internet means having conversations online ... definition
of online.
Being online means virtually having
conversations ... the Internet is conversation:
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The product of the Web is information. The same is true of the Internet.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is where it all
began in March 1989. A physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, wrote a proposal for information
management showing how information could be transferred easily over the Internet ...
(source of quote). connected to
the Internet or
other network of the Web as
a user. Example
of word usage: Any user can request that your contact
data also be published online (source).
The word was fist used when telephones were wire-connected
(telephone
lines) but now refers to a connection through
a network of computers or various telecommunication devices. 
Being online means dealing with communication
technology. Wikipedia defines the Web (World
Wide Web) as ... a system of interlinked hypertext documents (information) accessed
via the Internet. Anyone
connected knows that the Internet has dramatically expanded since the 1990s.
It continues to evolve. Everyone connected must deal with information dynamics.
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CLICK HERE for
examples of data brokers. An online information service provider
is distinctly different from a data
broker by .network definition. Page
up to commentary about the role of libraries as online information service
providers if interested in the collection of location
data by enterprise
developers and site
selectors.
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Using the phrase "target industry studies" in combination
with the words economic development to search the Web at one time
returned a number of links to websites of educational
institutions which have outreach programs for helping local communities.
Mostly we found links to websites of locations seeking
economic development which had target industry studies in hand. Our search
found an abstract
from a resource paper with discussions about ... the
commonalities and differences in local and regional economic development
(LRED)
across England, Northern Ireland, Australia and the US. The abstract
stated: ... we found statistically significant negative
relationships between agency effectiveness and engaging in tourism promotion
activities, training minority groups, and conducting target industry studies,
though this may reflect a correlation between certain activities and problematic
economic environments. Use the search engine at top of
this page to Google the Web, for example, by copying and pasting the
keyword combination economic development "target industry studies" in
the search box, keeping the quotation marks intact.
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CLICK
HERE for an example of colleges and universities with programs of outreach
into communities as mentioned under libraries as information
services online,
perhaps, in position to supply economic
development data. Part of the commentary on the example is a quote
from Toledo/Lucas County Economic Development and Innovation Plan. The
source of the quote was discovered during a search online for the keyword
combination: economic development target industry clusters university
studies. See the definition of target
industry in the .network glossary and the above
paragraph for more about the kind of services colleges and universities
provide for locations seeking economic
development prospects.
As is the the policy under our search promise, the
following information for making contact with one of the
members of the consulting team that produced the 2004 Toledo/Lucas County
Economic
Development and Innovation Plan is freely provided for the .network user
who made the request. The information comes from the Global
Registry of Contacts.
George, Henry, George Partners (formerly Hammer, Siler, George Associates)
McLean, VA / Bethesda, MD
http://www.ghgpec.com/contact.html
(A
.network user has requested contact data for a member the consulting team
and the
client for which the plan was developed.
As
is , The following
information is provided from the GRC database .TOLEDO-LUCAS COUNTY PORT
AUTHORITY)HAMMER • SILER • GEORGE • ASSOCIATES
Denver/Silver Spring
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 906
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910Hammer, Siler, George Associates is an economic
analysis
and strategy firm, which
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