OEDA Summer Training Registration closes July 16
Business Recruitment: Your Prospect Knows Way More About You Than You Know About Them
10:00 am
Welcome
- Colin Sears, OEDA President
- Carolyn Sanco, Oregon Economic and Community Development Department
10:10 am - 12:15 pm
What They Know & Can Share: National Economic Development Consultants
The Role of Technology in the Site Selection Process
Targeting Companies using Predictive Analytics
- Dean Whittaker, Whittaker Associates
12:15 - 1:30 pm
Networking lunch
1:30 - 2:55 pm
What We Do Right & Wrong: Recruitment Real Life Examples & Tools Panel
- Roger Lee, Executive Director, Economic Development for Central Oregon
- Larry Holzgang, Business Development Officer, Oregon Economic and Community Development Department
- Colin Sears, Economic Development Manager, Portland Development Commission
2:55 - 3:00 pm
Closing Remarks
- Carolyn Sanco, Oregon Economic and Community Development Department
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OEDA Awards Program
Calling all award applicants for the 2007 OEDA Awards of Excellence in Economic and Community Development. The purpose of the Awards of Excellence is to recognize exceptional and innovative economic development efforts in the State of Oregon. Not only will this highlight achievements, it will provide an opportunity for practitioners to learn about best practices throughout the state when the awards are presented during the OEDA Annual Conference in October.
2007 Award Categories
Outstanding Collaborative Partnerships: This award recognizes a project that has helped a community, region or partnership to overcome economic challenges and demonstrate vision, leadership and teamwork. Applicants could include a business, community, non-profit or government entity that has organized a partnership to address key community readiness issues, regional considerations and new challenges that can only be resolved by facing the issues together.
Creative Marketing & Promotions: Awards in this category recognize outstanding efforts and achievements in economic development marketing and promotional campaigns and/or materials.
Best Website for Economic Development: This category will honor communities and organizations that are using the Internet as an effective marketing tool to promote city, port, county, or regional economic development organizations services and offer information to clients.
Business Development Success Story: Every economic development professional wants to help businesses succeed. This award category recognizes efforts to recruit new companies, assist with the expansion and/or retention of existing companies, resulting in new capital investment and/or jobs. Demonstrated creativity in structuring ‘win-win’ transactions/deals for both community and company will be evaluated.
Economic Development Leader of the Year: Recognizes a professional who has attained outstanding achievement and who has consistently supported the vision and goals of local and state economic development. The individual may have worked closely with the other development partners and organizations to address common issues and to creatively pursue economic opportunity in Oregon.
[Click here] for more information and application materials.
Questions can be directed to Allison Larsen (509) 972-0833 or by email allison@chabinconcepts.com.
Application deadline: 5:00 PM, August 15, 2007
Good luck!
