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From Ragan’s PR Daily.

Thanks to Matt Bach, the PR MAnager for the Flint Area Convention and Visitors Bureau for sending us this link. Bach writes:

We also are very active on Twitter and Facebook and our “Flint Michigan” FB page has more than 3,000 fans. I use Facebook to promote our events, post our news releases and I also create content (such as photos of ribbon cuttings) and put them on the FB page. I use Twitter to link to the stuff on Facebook.

Ten Living Cities has a new Facebook group and we also really like Stop Hatin’ Dayton (for obvious reasons!) So if you want to get invloved and find out some of the great things that are happening in our Gem City and the other Forbes 9, you can connect to us through social media as well as register for the Symposium. Registration is free and you can attend the SYmposium for free as well as participate through the web during the presentations on August 8.

Damon Sink

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Dal Segno Media, Dayton

Michigan Works to Remake Itself Without King Auto – NYTimes.com.

An interesting and timely piece about Michigan’s progress in attracting film production to the state.

Hercules, Canton, Ohio – Cormony Development.

Cormony Development began working on the redevelopment of the former Hercules Motors Company complex in 2005. The Hercules project encompasses 26-acres and 610,000 square feet of vacant, industrial property in about 29 interconnected warehouse style buildings built between 1855 and 1945 in downtown Canton, Ohio. The project involves the environmental clean up of the site and the buildings (a Brownfield), the adaptive reuse of historic structures consistent with smart growth policies and the use of multiple tax credit programs. [Read more →]

Jobs in high-tech industries have been rising in Northeast Ohio, NorTech report shows -.
From Marcia Pledger at the Cleveland Plain Dealer

Forbes “10 Fastest Dying Cities” Symposium and Arts Festival
Celebrating the Human Spirit
August 7 – 9, 2009
Dayton, Ohio

An article in the August 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.com declared Buffalo, NY; Canton, OH; Charleston, WV; Cleveland, OH; Dayton, OH; Detroit, MI; Flint, MI; Scranton PA; Springfield, MA and Youngstown, OH as the 10 Fastest Dying Cities in America.

Looking to prove that nothing could be further from the truth, and timed to celebrate the article’s first anniversary, the Forbes 10 Fastest Dying Cities Symposium and Arts Festival is the brainchild of Peter Benkendorf, executive director of Involvement Advocacy, and Mike Elsass, owner of Color of Energy Gallery, both of Dayton.

Having concluded that there are amazing people doing amazing things in Dayton, imagine what would happen if that power were multiplied by 10!  By bring together artists and activists, community leaders and organizers, public officials and civic-minded people from the 10 cities, we can share ideas, inspiration and create new possibilities for what our future can be.

Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin is on board, with invitations having gone out to Mayors, City Planners, Library Directors and other public sector officials in the other nine cities. Grassroots organizing is also underway. Working with local contacts and institutional partners, lots of networking, plus the connectivity of the internet, a community of attendees from all ten cities

In order to make the session as valuable as possible, and to attract a diversity of backgrounds, the Symposium is being organized so various co-hort groups from the Public

Sector, Non-profits, Grassroots, Artists/Activists and Faith-based groups will have time to gather over an extended lunch to exchange ideas specific to their area of interest. The schedule for the three days is as follows:

Friday August 7 – Check-in and check out Dayton’s First Friday of gallery openings and entertainment, featuring art and music from the other Forbes cities. Includes creation of a collaborative installation by artists from all ten cities.

Saturday August 8 – Day-long symposium where each city will have an opportunity to share their vision and present some of the most innovative projects currently underway. Special interest luncheon breakouts will allow attendees to make new connections and cross-pollinate ideas.  Specific activities will include:

• Overview presentations and highlights of the most innovative projects from each cities;
• Presentation tables from each city for more idea sharing;
• Brainstorming session to generate new ideas;
• Networking: New relationships mean new possibilities.

Saturday August 8 – Evening is the time to head out with new-found friends for dinner and entertainment in Dayton’s vibrant night life.

Sunday August 9 – No scheduled activities, but an “official” morning continental breakfast at Riverscape MetroPark will be available to give people time for some further sharing of ideas, a final exchange of contact information and to some grab nourishment before heading back to our respective communities to get on with the work at hand.