Craig Hullinger- City Planner, Marine Colonel Retired

3/17/2010

1880 Town - Western South Dakota

Next time you travel west visit the 1880 Town in western South Dakota, developed by my cousin Richard Hullinger. A very interesting place.

Nice Write Up about Peoria in Wikapedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois

3/16/2010

3/15/2010

Going for Google - Sarasota and Peoria

The effort to attract Google to install an ultra high speed network is going into high gear.

From an Editorial in the Sarasota Herald Tribune

Published: Monday, March 15, 2010

"To attract Google, Sarasota need only be better than Peoria, Ill."

"No offense to any snowbirds or tourists visiting from Peoria."

None taken. As a Peoria / Sarasota Snowbird, I am pulling for both of my towns. Google, choose both.

Feed our Need for Speed.

Read the entire editorial here:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100315/OPINION/3151005/2225/NEWS?Title=Going-for-Google

Social Marketing 101 for Economic Development

Social Marketing 101

Social Marketing is a simple and low cost way to market economic development for a community, or to market any product or service.

There are many ways to use social marketing. Here is how I do it.

First create a blog. You can use any blogging service. I use blogger, which is part of google, and free:

http://www.blogger.com/home

Then write a few entries to get the hang of it. Post anything that you want the world to know about. The informational blogs that I use are:

http://cityofpeoria.blogspot.com/

http://economicdevelopmentnews.blogspot.com/

After I write the blog entry I post a short note on my Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, and Ning APA pages, telling about the blog entry with a short sentence and a link to the blog.

So you should create a page on each one of these services. They are all pretty easy - I can do it and I am older then dirt (62). Even a caveman can do it.

My Examples

http://twitter.com/craighullinger

http://www.linkedin.com/in/craighullinger

http://www.facebook.com/craighullinger

http://apaplanning.ning.com/profile/CraigHullinger

All of this is free and does not take very much time.

Where to sign up for your own pages:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/

http://twitter.com/

http://www.facebook.com/

http://apaplanning.ning.com/

Statement from Secretary Locke on Retail Sales in February 2010

Washington (March 12)—The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau today released retail sales data for February 2010.

Retail sales grew an unexpected 0.3 percent compared with private-sector forecasts of a 0.3 percent decline.

Excluding motor vehicles, retail sales grew 0.8 percent.

Retail sales have grown 3.9 percent over the past year.

(More)

(Release)

http://www.commerce.gov/

3/10/2010

Beth Ruyle and Craig Hullinger have been leaders in planning and development for 35 years. Beth was the Executive Vice President of Ehlers and Associates, Executive Director of the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association for 22 years, and a City Planner with the Atlanta Regional Commission. Craig was the Director of Economic Development for Peoria, Village Manager of Olympia Fields, University Park and Minooka, Planning Director for Will County, and a Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve.

Beth Ruyle______----____________---------_______-------___________Craig Hullinger

SERVICES INCLUDE:

· Economic Development

· Sustainable Development

· Strategic Planning