Savannah’s Creative Coast Initiative

By on June 7, 2006 in Blogging, RSS Feeds with 4 Comments

Whenver I talk with business leaders involved in a Chamber of Commerce or EconDev project, I point to the example being set by Savannah’s Creative Coast Initiative.

If business development, attracting new businesses, keeping young talent at home, providing networking opportunities and assisting the growth of the business and civic community are part of the goals of such an organization, Savannah is doing a great job.

It wouldn’t surprise me to see Savannah implement Grazr or some form of OMPL use soon. For all this to happen, politics need to take a back seat to collaboration.

I’m looking forward to the Greater Des Moines Partnership doing similar things. I know that they’re keen on the idea and planning a strategy for feeds.

In May, Forbes released their Best Places for Business and Careers (200 Metro areas ranked). Here’s a comparison of Des Moines and Savannah:

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How about your metro area? If there’s a city doing what Savannah, GA is doing, we’d sure like to learn about them.

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- Iowa – Want to Keep Young Talent Here?
- WDM City Manager Blog

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  • http://chriscree.blogspot.com/ Chris Cree

    Great post highlighting a wonderful product of our fair city. The Creative Coast Initiative is (unfotunately) a well kept secret still. You are right. It is a good use of RSS technology to promote what a city has to offer.

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    Chris, I’d be interested in knowing if they are using this to attract small businesses that ARE NOT yet part of then local Chamber. Any insight you can offer would be embraced here.

  • http://blog.thecreativecoast.org/ Leigh Lawless

    Hi Mike,
    I came across your blog after some searches into links for The Creative Coast and I have to say thanks for the shout out form Iowa.
    The Creative Coast Initiative aims to attract and nurture creative and technological businesses. We are a separate entity from the CoC and are funded by the city of Savannah, Chatham County and Savannah Economic Development Authority (SEDA).
    I know this post was made over a year ago, but I thought you would enjoy knowing that we have actually now launched our own blog – “Relocated Thinking” to serve as a community discussion site including topics from Econ Dev to What makes Savannah quirky and cool. Check it out at http://blog.thecreativecoast.org.
    If you have further questions for us – let me know!

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