How to Get Started in Social Media for Art League City
EG2008 John Grace And Jane Robinson
1. ECONOMIC GARDENING An example of one style of Economic Gardening from ‘Down Under’ Illawarra R D A
2. Where do we come from? The Illawarra region: 50 miles South of Sydney Beautiful coastal region – but with heavy industrial and coal mining heritage 3 main population centres: Wollongong City - 195,000 people Shellharbour City - 62,000 people Kiama Municipality - 20,000 people
17. EG Shellharbour (continued) 2. The BOOT CAMP - an intensive, full-day business workshop. Activities are closely observed to help the team identify business operators who will benefit from the program.
18. EG Shellharbour (continued) 3. Business HEALTH CHECK offered to identified businesses. Advice provided by the financial consultant to the EG team from about the financial strength of businesses.
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22. The Team Jane & John – Project management and design Bob Ashford – Coordinating consultant Juliet Scrine - Marketing Dick Bradley – Business planning, benchmarking and finance Andrew Thornberry – e - business and IT
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24. Diverse group of Participating Businesses Some examples: Capital Aircraft Services Avionics and gas turbine specialists
38. Thank you We are grateful to many people for persevering with us as we tried to implement a strategy that was very different to traditional economic development practices in Australia. (In particular Shellharbour City Council who dared to go where other Councils couldn’t be bothered to tread) Our special thanks to Chris Gibbons who inspired us to try Economic Gardening in ‘our patch’! Illawarra R D A