Direct from the EDPro Weblog, here’s the scoop on rural outsourcing: Rural areas are becoming more competitive with the expansion of communications networks. Here’s a good story about how some high tech jobs are being “outsourced” to rural regions. Read more. Increasingly, rural counties are seeing that communciations networks are critical to their ability to […]
Develop by Promoting Arts & Beauty of Your Area
Jack Schultz, Boomtown USA, has some terrific questions to ask about Promoting the Arts & Beauty of your Area. “What can you do to send gifts of beauty from your town?” was the challenge that Gerald Yoshitomi asked of the participants at the FHLB Conference in Sioux Falls, SD. He discussed a number of innovative […]
Can legislation spur rural broadband?
New York has passed legislation to try to spur further rural broadband development, as reported Friday in the Utica Observer-Dispatch. Can passing a law really make a difference on broadband investment? The law directs one agency, the Department of Economic Development, to work with other departments, agencies and private companies. Their assignment is to create […]
Bringing home successful entrepreneurs
Now here is a strategy for rural development: Hope that one of your small town’s alumni will return and pour money on you. Don’t want to wait? Start looking for alumni to bring back, organize general alumni events, and build relationships with people. At the same time, don’t forget your “never lefts,” the people who […]
