LoCo BC launched this month at an event in downtown Vancouver called Harnessing the Power of Local: Positioning Your Business to Thrive in a Shaky Economy.

Amy Robinson presented an overview of LoCo BC, a new business network working to create a diverse, vibrant local economy by strengthening small and mid-sized businesses, connecting and having fun in the process.

As well as Amy’s presentation, Kierstin De West of Conscientious Innovation (Ci) presented info on her company’s latest research intelligence in the area of local and sustainability, and just why it’s such a hot-button right now.  And I was there to talk about digital media and how best to use it as part of business plan.  Kierstin’s presentation is here,  and I’ll post my presentations in a couple of days.

Since I was there as a guest speaker, I’ve put together a screen-cast of Amy’s  presentation here.

Further down the page you can just grab the audio version, or the PDF (or all three !)

Here’s the screencast of  Amy’s presentation, which will give you a good picture of what LoCo BC is all about, and you should email her after you’ve watched/listened to it  because I’m sure you’ll want to get involved…

Podcast: If you’d rather just listen to the podcast, it’s here:

Runs:  15:45
ISBN: 978-1-926758-04-6

If you’d rather get it on iTunes, here’s the direct link.

PDF: And here’s a copy of Amy’s presentation in PDF format.

Podcast and video licensed under Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada