A quick follow-up to earlier posts regarding the cutting-edge (bleeding edge?) GrowFL state-wide economic gardening program. A news story tweeted by consultant Eric Canada notes that: The gardening program is proactive, rather than reactionary, allowing economic development councils to have a more nurturing role, helping businesses grow instead of just waiting for it to happen. The […]
Responsibility and Authority
This, my friends, is too good to pass up. From Seth Godin’s blog Monday: Responsibility and authority Achievers in traditional organizations often say, “I want more authority.” They mean that they want the power to make things happen, the mantle of authority that will allow them to get things done. This is an industrial-era mindset. […]
Firming the Wind
[v=NE_BalA6AT8] This bit of renewable energy news was buried in a subhead in Sunday’s STrib: JUHL WIND TO BUY STORAGE UNIT Juhl Wind, the little public company near Pipestone that is a 30-plus year pioneer in community-owned wind power, has agreed to buy a 1-megawatt advanced energy storage system developed by Zinc Air. Juhl plans to […]
You Don’t Know What You Have Until It Is Gone (#EconDev Edition)
[v=rnX9ScL6LLw] Noted on the Economic Gardening mailing list: GrowFL Participant Credits Economic Gardening Program for Helping Secure Major Defense Contract Cocoa-based Coastal Steel Inc. Will Add More Than 55 Jobs as a Result of Contract with Lockheed Martin FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jul 12, 2011 – COCOA, Fla. – Thanks in part to the entrepreneurial ecosystem cultivated […]
A New Project: Pipestone Economic Development Authority
At work, we try to customize our services to the needs of our clients. Applying cookie-cutter solutions with standard government templates might be easier for us, but it doesn’t necessarily get the job done. One example would be some recent conversations we’ve had with one of our counties on providing local economic development services. It […]
Keynes’ Revenge Best Served Cold
[v=Hrg1CArkuNc] Milton Friedman, in my book, can do no (economic) wrong. In Anatoly Kaletsky’s recent book—Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crises (Public Affairs, 2010)—Friedman and the rest of us “market fundamentalists” can do nothing right. Following the spectacular collapse of the banking system in 2007-09, a gaggle of […]
Justs the Facts, m'am: Economic Development Marketing for Results
I am a long-time fan of consultant Eric Canada (Blane Canada) and his firm’s periodic economic development newsletters. I came across this bit from a couple years ago while drafting a marketing plan. ~~~Consumer world shifted…“Today, in addition to giving your customer a feeling of connectedness, you must infuse your ads with facts, details, logic and […]
10 Ways Broadband Helps Rural Communities
H/T to Mike Knutson of Reimagine Rural fame for the RT on this meme. I’m not familiar with the Internet Innovation Alliance: “A broad-based coalition of business and non-profit organizations that aims to ensure that every American has access to broadband Internet.” As the blurb at the bottom indicates, you can read the fine print […]
Florida Gov Plows Under Economic Gardening Project
In one of those too-strange-to-be-true coincidences, Florida Governor Rick Scott vetoed funding for the state’s cutting edge UCF GrowFL economic gardening program. This hard on the heals of the National Economic Gardening Conference held at UCF last month. The Daytona Beach News-Journal carried some reactions: Economic gardening is a new approach and alternative to traditional […]
Rational Man Exposed
[v=yWxXvzyb7uY] I’ve lurked on the Econ-Dev mailing list for many years. Chris Gibbons runs the ground-breaking economic gardening program for Littleton, Colorado. In an exchange yesterday, a list member (the list actually migrated to Google Groups awhile ago, but anyway…) recommended a new book called Econned, by Yves Smith. I have no idea if […]