ED Futures Newsletter, October 30, 2005 Issue

Dear ED Futures Newsletter Subscriber:

I have become increasing concerned about the "economic well-being" of the citizens we serve in our work. For that reason, we are conducting some special research on how state and local economic development policies and programs contribute to the economic well-being of citizens.

We need your help in completing a short web-based survey, which you can access here: Economic Well-Being Survey Link. Please take a few minutes and share your views with us. We will be sharing our findings with the ED community in the near future.

Here are a few articles posted to the ED Futures website, which you may find to be of interest:

How Does Economic Development Work and Is It Working?
(You will find a serious attempt to answer these two related questions. The survey results will help improve the answers we can offer.)

Target Industry: Agricultural Biotechnology (This is an area you might want to explore, especially if agriculture is a major industry cluster in your area.)

Book Review: Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal? (Please read this one for your own sake!)

There are many other article posted to the ED Futures website (www.don-iannone.com/edfutures. Don't be shy. Use the Google search engine on the site to keyword search the site to find articles in line with your interest. There are over 4,000 articles on the website.)

Have you signed up for the IEDC Leadership Summit in St. Petersburg, Florida? It will be held in late January 2006. I will be giving the keynote speech on my forthcoming book, Creating Leadership Advantage for Economic Development. (I am hopeful the book will be off the press by then and available at the conference.) I understand that Creative Class Richard Florida will also be speaking at the conference. Get the details at the IEDC website.

In conclusion, if you know someone who would like to sign up for the ED Futures newsletter, just provide them with this link.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Don Iannone
Publisher
Tel: 440.449.0753
Email: dtia@don-iannone.com