by Rick Baker
On May 20, 2010
Through the Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce, I had the pleasure of attending a presentation on the Waterloo Manufacturing Innovation Network (Waterloo MIN) last week.
Valerie Machado, Business Development Officer for the City of Kitchener and Chair of the
Waterloo MIN Advisory Board and Rod Regier, Executive Director, Economic Development for the City of Kitchener presented the update about
Waterloo MIN.
www.cityofkitchener.com
Waterloo MIN is supported by many local organizations, including the City of Kitchener and the Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce.
Many communities are watching us here at Waterloo Region…and they are watching the Waterloo MIN…they see it as a social networking business vehicle they should emulate. [that’s great news!]
Here are a few of the highlights Valerie and Rod presented:
About
Waterloo MIN’s members & participants:
- 173 ‘Full’ Manufacturing Members
- 105 Limited Members – outside the region, government, academic, institutions, consortiums
- 48 Promotional Members – advertisers, sponsors, expert bloggers
- 182 Service Providers and Suppliers
- 193 ‘Basic’ Members
About the most-visited pages of the
Waterloo MIN website:
- Homepage
- Job Board - over 300,000 individual views and received over 13,000 applications for local manufacturing jobs
- Blogs
- Company Directory - Did you know 30% of Waterloo Region Manufacturers don’t have a website? Waterloo MIN provides these companies with a no-cost, branded web presence.
- Calendar
As a Waterloo MIN blogger, I was pleased to see the blogs registering in the top 5 areas of website activity. I am sure most Waterloo MIN bloggers will be pleased to know this. They will be pleased to understand their blogs are of value to the Waterloo MIN members and supporters.
I mean – that’s what blogging as all about.
Blogging = sharing what we have learned and the way we think with others…in an effort to help them.
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