Georgia Tech’s Savannah Campus will host the “Food for Thought Series” ‘Marketing on a Shoestring’ on May 17 at 11:30am in room 126 of the PARB building. “Enlightened attendees will be dismissed at 1:00 sharp.”

“John Powers, President of Bottom Line Marketing, will speak at the May edition of the Entrepreneur “Food for Thought” series. His presentation, “Marketing on a Shoestring”, will provide specific tools for businesses seeking maximum productivity from their promotional dollar. Targeting, placement, budgeting, creative media options, measurement and the “Eleven Immutable Commandments of Marketing” will be on the agenda.”

The “Food for Thought” series is a join effort between the Advance Technology Development Center of Savannah (ATDC) and The Creative Coast Initiative. It offers business development insights for both fledgling and established enterprises.

A nearly 60 year old ecological research and environmental education center run by the University of Georgia at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is in danger of being closed by the government.

According to the site, ”…our anti-science administration in Washington is trying to shut SREL down, in spite of the continued support of SREL by SRS. SRS has obtained funding for the SREL, but unqualified political appointees in Washington are preventing SRS from releasing the funds. Unless those funds are released, SREL will be forced to close its doors by the end of the month.”

Please read the full article for ways to help protest this closing. We’d hate to lose a green organization along our river!

Congratulations to Savannahs Own Clark Creative for winning two ADDY Awards in an Alabama Ceremony!

“Clark Creative, a creative communications company specializing in print, web, and graphic design was honored with two silver ADDY Awards at a formal ceremony on April 13th at the Alabama Museum of Natural History in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Savannah Advertising Federation had only two finalists from the area honored in the 2007 District ADDY® competition.”

Clark Creative is owned by Cari Clark (a co-founder of cSpot with our very own Fitz Haile) and has created high profile work for The Savannah Bee Company and Zhena’s Gypsy Teas, among others.

Congratulations Clark Creative!

An article in Auburn, NY’s The Citizen paper thinks so. The small town of Aurora, NY deals with New York State’s Finger Lakes tourism and cites Savannah as an example of what their town should strive not to become.

An excerpt:
“If we do not act now, we will become something like Savannah, Ga. My wife and I took a seniors tour and stayed downtown in a commercial hotel. The whole point of the tour was to look at a pre-Civil War town layout, which was, untouched by the past century. Downtown was 1990 commercial, but the residential sector was beautiful with ordered streets, multiple parks, Spanish Moss, ante-bellum mansions and huge century-old oak trees.

The incongruity and the crime was that there were 20 or 30 tour buses parked or moving through the very narrow residential streets, leaving a blue fog of diesel, all day long. Seems like the Savannah city government could do something, but once established, those patterns are hard to break. Let’s not have it here.”