Consider today’s entry to be an introductory blog about this blog. I want to first set the stage and then invite you, the readers of BizTimes Daily and Small Business Times, to take over and get up on our new soap box.
I’m writing today to invite you to contribute your ideas and viewpoints in this new blog, which will be devoted to issues that affect the business community in southeastern Wisconsin.
Is there an issue you feel strongly about or are qualified to shed light about? The economy? Health care costs? Wellness? Taxes? Regional branding? Regional cooperation? Transportation? The future of the airport? The brain drain? Milwaukee’s lakefront? Wellness? Diversity? Race relations? Commercial real estate? Education? The arts? The nonprofit sector? Sports business? Workforce development? Demographics? Tourism? Technology? Telecommunications? Infrastructure? Manufacturing? Wealth management? Financial services? Law? Government regulations? The media? Downtown development? Urban sprawl? Job creation strategies? Politics? Energy? The environment?
Virtually all of the things that Small Business Times covers are open for discussion in the Milwaukee Biz Blog.
We also hope that this new blog will be the place for discussion of new ideas and concepts, including the notion of local government consolidation or new solutions for our region’s health care cost crisis. In addition, insights about strategies for how southeastern Wisconsin businesses can grow will be welcome, as long as they are not self-promotional.
When there’s an issue or a viewpoint you would like to share with the local business community, please share your insights with our readers in this exciting new blog. And when you want to respond to someone’s blog, please post your thoughts at the bottom of the page. The intention here is to create a central point on the Web where southeastern Wisconsin business, nonprofit, civic and governmental leaders can communicate with each other and generate discussions that will benefit the community as a whole.
We will rotate the blogs as we receive them.
Links to new Milwaukee Biz Blog content will appear in the BizTimes Daily e-mail bulletin (www.biztimes.com/daily), which has grown to more than 10,000 subscribers, and some of the blogs also may be used in the print edition of Small Business Times, which has more than 14,000 subscribers.
I hope you will take us up on this offer to share your knowledge and insight with others through the Milwaukee Biz Blog. Just e-mail your blog to me at steve.jagler@biztimes.com, and attach a digital head-and-shoulder photograph of yourself, if you can. SBT reserves the right to edit the submissions and the responses before they are posted on the blog, to ensure they are appropriate. Please close your blog submission with your name, title and contact information.
The blog will be posted at www.biztimes.com, the home page of the Small Business Times Web site.
