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Company & Industry Info

BizMiner.com - quality industry reports online.
Corporate Information - links to company profiles, research reports, country profiles, and state profiles.
Dialog - in-depth company information.
Hoover's - a one-stop shop source of company information.
Leadership Directories - up-to-date information on the executives who manage and direct the leading U.S. and fastest-growing corporations
List of Lists - links to all kinds of lists by industry.
ZapData.com - D&B data online.
Yahoo! Finance - Yahoo! Finance brings you company profiles from on over 9,000 public companies, including contact information, business summaries, officer and employeee information, sector and industry classifications, business and earnings announcement summaries, and financial statistics and ratios.

Company & Industry News
 
Business 2.0 - good info and smart articles on current trends from CNN Money.
Business Journals - links to multiple area business journal news; sign up for email delivery on topics or areas.
BNET.com - practical, trusted resources for the business challenges faced every day, and effective techniques for moving organizations and careers forward.
Gartner.com - research and news on high-tech industries.
LexisNexis - World's leading provider of information management and workflow solutions.
McKinsey Quarterly - comprehensive articles on timely industry topics.
MIT's Technology Review - great source for emerging technology and products currently in research and development.
Newslink - links to newspapers across the country.
OneSource - in-depth company profiles help you save time researching corporate families, industries, key executives and financial information.
Wall Street Journal - a must read for today's relevant news.

Resources for the ED Practitioner
 
Alliance for Regional Stewardship (ARS) is a national, peer-to-peer network of regional leaders working across boundaries to solve tough community problems.
Beacon Hill Institute - compiles the annual Metro Area and State Competitiveness Reports.
Boomtown Institute - provokes innovative thinking, encourage leadership and foster investment in communities across the U.S.A."
Business Retention & Expansion International - focuses on the retention and expansion of existing businesses.
Corporation for Enterprise Development - expands economic opportunity by helping Americans start and grow businesses.
Economic Development Directory - 80 directories of selected economic development agencies, economic development consultants and economic development associations worldwide.
Economic Development Marketing Blog - a collection of recent articles and discussion on marketing initiatives being employed by communities worldwide.
Economic Development Online - shows economic development professionals the steps to develop exceptional web sites.
EDPro News - helps economic development professionals keep up with the changes sweeping our profession.
Location Quotient Calculator - conduct a location quotient analysis for your community here.  LQA is often used to determine clusters and taget industries.
Marketing the Community for Economic Development - resources from the Municipal Research & Services Center of Washington.
Milken Institute - publisher of the annual "Best Performing Cities" rankings.
POLICOM Corporation - measures and ranks the economic strength od metro and micro statistical areas.
Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States - conducts the annual study of the twenty-nine factors relative to states’ efforts to be pro-business.
Retention Monthly - a monthly electronic newsletter that provides news, trends and a global perspective on economic development. The publication gives professionals a better idea of what is happening beyond their community, state and province. 
Shift-share Analysis of Regional Employment - This website will deliver a shift-share analysis of year-to-year changes in employment among 11 major industry categories.
Strengthening Brand America - this site's mission is to dramatically improve the level of place brand mastery in the U.S. by teaching the reapplication of proven private sector branding principles.
Tech Based Economic Development Resource Center - comprehensive database of reports and studies on tech-based economic development.
 
Government Sources
 
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) - promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data.
Bureau of Labor Statistics - is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
Census Bureau - serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
Economic Development Administration - leads the federal economic development agenda by promoting
innovation and competitiveness.
Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) - where economic and social changes are chronicled, understood, and explained.
EDGAR - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings and forms
Federal Reserve Bank - site for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
FedWorld.gov  - portal to various government web sites provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
USDA Rural Development -  committed to helping improve the economy and quality of life in all of rural America.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - processes patent and trademark applications and disseminates patent and trademark information.

Conferences & Presentations
 
Economic Development Institute - the premier training resource fro economimc development
MAEDC's 2008 Competitiveness Conference presentations.
2007 BREI Annual Conference presentations.
 
Service Providers
 
Providers of services and products to economic development organizations can be listed here for just $199 per year.  Contact us today to start increasing your business!
 
SiteConsultant.net - Provides a searchable directory of site selection consultants. Economic developers and corporate real estate executives can find a consultant by industry, location, size or other factors.  Site selection consultants can register at no charge.
 
STELLAR Fundraising Executives - STELLAR provides comprehensive fundraising campaign management services to economic and community development organizations across the country.
 
Demographics & Stats
 
BNA Labor Plus - your one stopsource for labor relations information on the Web.
Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) - works to improve data availability, enhance data quality, and foster learning about regional economic analytic methods. Producer of the nationally renowned Cost of Living Index (COLI).
Economagic - a comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research.
Economy.com - economic, financial & industry information.
FreeLunch - free statistics on Economy.com.
NAICS Association - match SIC Codes to the new NAICS Codes.
O*NET Consortium - occupational information network matches skills to occupations and industries.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development - one of the world's largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistics, and economic and social data.
Sperling's Best Places - responsible for more "Best Places" studies and projects than any other single organization.
 
Site Selection and ED Publications
 
Whittaker Report - from Whittaker Associates, a newsletter about giving information meaning.
 
Informational Sites & Portals

Business.com - selection of links by industry.
CEO Express - selection of web sites by category geared to the needs of busy people.
Google Alerts - check out the news alert feature.
InSite 2 - provides a single point of access to authoritative business information.
Progressive Policy Institute - keep current on the new issues such as homeland security, the new economy, and economic policy.
Summary.com - Each month, this organization selects today's most valuable business books and summarize each author's key points into just eight pages. You can stay informed in just minutes...read a summary from your PDA...or even listen to a summary on CD or as an MP3.
 
Economic Development Associations
 
CoreNet Global - the world's leading professional association for corporate real estate and workplace executives serving leading multinational companies from the Fortune and Global 1000.
Economic Developers Association of Canada - enhances professional competence, advance economic development as a profession, and contribute to Canada's well-being.
International Economic Development Council (IEDC) - dedicated to helping economic developers do their job more effectively and raising the profile of the profession.
Industrial Asset Management Council - the leading association of industrial asset management and corporate real estate executives, their suppliers and service providers, and economic developers.
International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) is the global trade association of the shopping center industry.
Mid-America Economic Development Council (MAEDC) - strengthens the ability of economic developers in IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, NE, ND, OH, SD and WI; and the economic vitality of the 10 state region in general through education.
National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP)  - the nation's leading trade association for developers, owners, investors, asset managers and other professionals in industrial, office and mixed-use commercial real estate.
National Development Council - its purpose is to increase the flow of capital for investment, jobs and community development to under served urban and rural areas across the country.
National Rural Economic Developers Association - provide education, advocacy and networking opportunities to rural and suburban utilities and affiliated organizations.
Northeast Economic Developers Association (NEDA) - promotes economic and industrial development in the Northeastern region of the United States.
Society of Industrial & Office Realtors (SIOR) - is the leading professional commercial and industrial real estate association with more than 3,200 members.
Southern Economic Development Council (SEDC) - provides useful information and dynamic leadership to economic development practitioners throughout the American South.
State Science & Technology Institute - dedicated to improving the economy through science and technology
Utility Economic Development Association (UEDA) - international association of investor owned electric and gas utility economic development professionals and allies.
 
Other Associations
 
Association of Defense Communities (ADC) - the nation's premier membership organization serving America's defense communities.
American Planning Association - a nonprofit public interest and research organization committed to urban, suburban, regional, and rural planning.
Brookings Institution - a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts high-quality, independent research and, based on that research, provides innovative, practical recommendations.
Committee for Economic Development - addresses national priorities that promote sustained economic growth and development.
Communities of the Future - an evolving network of people and organizations throughout the U.S. and other countries that are working in collaboration to develop new concepts of governance, economic development, leadership, and education/learning for a fast-paced, interconnected, and increasingly complex society.
International City/County Management Assoc.- its mission is to create excellence in local governance by advocating and developing the professional management of local government worldwide.
National Association of Regional Councils - serves as the national voice for regionalism.
National Governors Association - promotes visionary state leadership, shares best practices and speaks with a unified voice on national policy.
National League of Cities - its mission is to strengthen and promote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance.
U.S. Business Roundtable - an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies
U.S. Conference Board.
Urban Land Institute - research and education organization representing the entire spectrum of land use and real estate development disciplines.
World Future Society - a nonpartisan scientific and educational association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future.
 
Web Analytics
 
Altavista - leading provider of search services and technology.
Google Analytics  - is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.
Netmechanic - check your site performance
Search Engine Watch - is the authoritative guide to search engine marketing and search engine optimization.
Trafficzap - evaluate your website's ranking and use other free search engine services
Wilson Web - E-commerce, e-mail marketing, and web marketing information

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