Follow-up to "The Changing Landscape of Public Advocacy: Citizen-Community Priorities and Web 2.0" Midtown Brews with Meet The Bloggers...

Thank you for your time and efforts to make last evening's Midtown Brews rich and diverse.

Here's what we heard from the Midtown Brews open conversation. Each point is a solution to advance economic development advocacy efforts in Northeast Ohio:

• Aggregation of NEO blog content
• Identification of Midtown Brews community
• List of ideas and projects
• The importance of networks

For now, a couple of next steps:

• You'll receive an e-invitation to join the Midtown Brews online community shortly. Accept the invitation and complete your Member page
• Check for updates and post your comments and suggestions to the News tab
• Watch "The Changing Landscape of Public Advocacy: Citizen-Community Priorities and Web 2.0" Oct 2 Live Show on the Midtown Brews Broadcast channel or on You Tube

Look for next steps in your e-mail early next week.

Pass this information along freely. All welcome.

Questions? Contact: Betsey Merkel, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), 4415 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Ph: 216-246-2447

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