Yesterday, we talked about social media and how it can help you further your goals as an economic development organization. Today, let’s delve a little deeper into social media strategy and, most importantly, why you need one. In this Forbes column, Bruno Aziza, co-author of the bestseller “Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent [...]

Categories: Research
Tagged: Social Media, social media strategies, Twitter,

Tennessee is home to 1,000 auto-related enterprises, and more are on the way, including NHK Seating, which will build a $54 million facility in Murfreesboro, just outside Nashville.

Categories: Deals, Job Creation, Site Selection
Tagged: Auto manufacturing, Auto suppliers, Murfreesboro, NHK Seating, Nissan, Tennessee and auto manufacturing, Volkswagen,

From the spring/summer edition of InTransition: “For many agencies that may not have conceived of themselves as the hippest kids on the block, social media are opening up legitimate avenues for public participation, outreach and dissemination of information. The migration to social media has been so rapid of late that for agencies that have not [...]

Categories: Research
Tagged: government and social media, Social Media, social media strategies,

A German auto parts company is investing $350 million and will create 900 jobs when it builds a manufacturing facility in Laurens County, S.C.

Categories: Deals, Job Creation
Tagged: Laurens County S.C., Owings Industrial Park, South Carolina, South Carolina economy, South Carolina jobs, South Carolina manufacturing, ZF Group,

California’s Mojave Desert launches world’s largest wind energy project.

Categories: Deals, Job Creation
Tagged: California, Mojave Desert, wind energy,

Nearly 28 percent of Wichita’s Gross Metropolitan Product – the sum of all goods and services produced in the region – comes from exports, and nearly two-thirds of that comes from the transportation sector

Categories: Job Creation, Research
Tagged: Aviation, Exports, Gross Metropolitan Product, Kansas, Kansas Economy, Wichita, Wichita Economy,

Texas continues to prove itself as a leading state for corporate business, recently closing a deal for West Coast firm Vermillion to relocate to Austin, Tex.

Categories: Deals
Tagged: California, Fortune 500, Texas, Vermillion,