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IDRC MEMBER
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link: info about this page down the page
link: what made this page good for networking? Robert E. Glover
Founder/Developer: The Network
Economic Development Services, Inc.
10822 Big Canoe, Big Canoe, GA 30143-5136 (USA)
Phone: 706-579-1526
EMAIL
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
dot Year started with current company: 1991
dot Education: University of Georgia (graduate)
dot Industrial Development Institute (graduate)
dot Spouse: Lynne
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IDRC SERVICE
dot IDRC member since: 1973
dot Local IDRC chapter: (CoreNet Global) Southeast USA
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Certification: Master Professional / 1984

dot Member as ...
President/CEOdotEconomic Development Services
planned communities/commercial and industrial real estatedotMobil Corporation

Senior Vice PresidentdotGeorgia Business Council (state chamber of commerce)

Associate DirectordotSouth Carolina State Development Board
Associate DirectordotTennessee Economic & Community Development
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ORGANIZATION INFORMATION
dot Capsule description: Operates a network of three websites (The Network) providing free-access to tools, guides, informational resources, and search assistance for business decision makers, economic developers, enterprise developers, entrepreneurs, leaders of fast-growing companies, site selectors, and small business owners as well as any others whose interest range from commercial and industrial real estate to excellence in personal and group productivity. The Network is a leading, nonpartisan, online resource for finding suppliers and service providers, and location representatives, engaged in enterprise and economic development. Site selection is a process of enterprise development.
dot Organization Type: free-access, nonpartisan, online information service
dot Services Offered:
see http://www.SiteLocationAssistance.com
see http://www.EconomicDevelopment.net
see http://www.FindMeHere.com
dot Year Economic Development Services established: 1990
dot Year The Network established: 1996
dot Organization status: engaged in a mission along with .network participants
dot Geographic Service Area: global
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ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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For a period of several years before the International Development Research Council ceased to exist, the organization maintained a directory of associate members online.

The apparent purpose of the directory was to give active members of IDRC easy access on the Web to associates who were their resource and service providers.

As IDRC Members on the Web* it was one of the first directories of site selection, real estate and economic development contacts to be offered online as a free-access resource.

The last issue of the IDRC membership directory was used to update a couple of thousand records to the global directory of contacts first published online by The Network in 1997. The directory was offered as open-access and has remained so ever since.

Bob Glover, the founder of The Network (page up), salvaged and reproduced his record from IDRC Members on the Web. His purpose in doing so was to keep the spirit of the association's focus on networking alive, as reflected in the following IDRC statement:

Perhaps the most important networking is that which is done on a person-to-person basis between individuals with special skills and experience ...
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*Members on the Web was published as a reference without any attention given to up-dating after 1998. The link, Leaders in Development, once broken, wasn't fixed. Members on the Web remained published online until finally removed in 2006.

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The Google/.network search engine is available if you are interested in querying the Web for more information about the International Development Research Council. Some keyword combinations are shown as used to search for IDRC, Site Selection Magazine, and Conway Data information online until the contact directory, Members on the Web, was removed.

Copy and paste suggestions, keeping quotation marks intact. If you search for a contact you think may have been a member of the association, simply include the name by typing it too inside quotation marks. IDRC associates should be listed in the Global Registry of Contacts unless retired, passed away or gone on to other things having nothing to do with the .network mission.

Search the Web for ... member "leaders in development" "Site Selection"

Search the Web for ... IDRC member "Leaders in Development" "Conway"

Search the Web for ... members on the web "economic development" site selection

Search the Web for ... members on the web "site selection" Conway Data

Search the Web for ... associate members on the web "Site Selection Magazine"

Search the Web for ... IDRC "Members on the Web"

Search the Web for ... "International Development Research Council"

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