Just posted the full interview with Joe Marinucci over on the MTB website. Here are a couple of excerpts to whet your appetite for the entire hour:
All of the above are under 5 minutes long.
Meet the Bloggers » Joe Marinucci, President & CEO, Downtown Cleveland Alliance
Northeast Ohio has an abundance of brilliant, independent producers, while many newer cities are stuck with chain outlets, hollywood movies and corporate branch offices. This week’s podcast points you to the Indy Rock Triple Play at bela dubby in Lakewood, the City Fresh Hop in Slavic Village, and The Bang and Clatter Theatre Company’s benefit at Nighttown. To hip your iPod, click here.
What does it mean to be a Clevelander? There seems to be a different spirit in the air these days about what it means to be from Northeast Ohio, and about how screamin’ wonderful it is to live here. The issue of regionalism is forcing people to recognize that the high-profile faults of the inner city only sound bad because we’re not including our entire region in the statistics. If Columbus wouldn’t have gone regional and annexed it’s suburbs, not only wouldn’t it be the largest city in Ohio by a long stretch, but their inner city would show up pretty much statistically the same as Cleveland’s. The new Cleveland-Plus campaign by the Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Greater Cleveland Partnership and TeamNEO is an innovative, collaborative program that offers our best chance, and millions of dollars, to attract business and tourism to our part of the world. And I’ve always kidded there were two ways to deal with our region’s leadership vacuum: assassination and attrition, and it seems that the latter has finally taken hold: we’re seeing a younger generation take over, and they exhibit little of the cynicism that our mainstream media continues to feed us. These young people are redefining what it means to be a Clevelander.
To listen to the Cool Cleveland podcast, just click here.
For families and kids, this is a great week to have fun in Akron, Independence, University Circle and at a bank. To listen to the Cool Cleveland Kids podcast from Max, just click here.
Are these podcasts useful? When and where do you listen? Max and I want to know.
For those who have an interest in such things, this week’s Cool Cleveland podcast includes a little background on how the Cool Cleveland newsletter was started back in the fall of 2002. If you’re not interested in that, you might enjoy the three suggestions we make for cool things to do this week, like the Resonance music fest at Parish Hall, the Eddie Backus Quintet at the Museum, and Karamu’s riveting play about Malcolm X meeting Elijah Muhammad. To listen, just click here.
Nice work by Jocelyn Eikenburg. Keep an eye on this blog:
Jocelyn: Good morning, this is the Wu Way Update for December the first, and we’re having a conversation with Chip Coakley, who is the chairman and CEO of PGL Global, which is a firm that helps mid-size companies with their outsourcing as well as offshoring. And we’re talking this morning about the challenges involved with marketing in China as well as doing business in China.Good morning Chip!
Coakley: Hello Jocelyn!
Jocelyn: So Chip, the first question I have is why do you think a company ought to consider marketing their products or services in China? Why should they look to China?
Coakley: Well, that’s a great question Jocelyn. There’s a couple things, let’s break that down into pieces, and look at production first of all. Production, whether you’re a small or medium-sized company, you’re finding that all of their products are becoming extremely globalized, from a competitive standpoint. And unless, looking back on the history of this country a little bit, when we were competing with each other – for instance a Midwest firm was competing against a West Coast firm or a Midwest firm was competing against a Southwest firm. Now you get to the point where a Midwest firm is competing against a firm in Argentina, competing against a firm in Beijing, competing against a firm in the Czech Republic, so it’s a global problem. So from a production standpoint, all companies, whether it’s a US company or another company someplace in the world, have to look at global opportunities to be able to become globally competitive…
