» Monthly Archives: August 2011
Social Media tips for developers, Part 3: focus on Quality, not Quantity
(Editor’s Note: Seth Cargiuolo, our chief knowledge officer, says developers can use social media channels like Twitter and Facebook to reach out and attract community support for their projects. Here’s part three of a three-part series)
By Seth Cargiuolo, Chief Knowledge Officer, The Saint Consulting Group
We know the topic of Social Media can cause consternation, confusion ...
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Social Media Tips for developers, Part 2: Be real, don’t be faceless!
(Editor’s Note: Seth Cargiuolo, our chief knowledge officer, says developers can use social media channels like Twitter and Facebook to reach out and attract community support for their projects. Here’s part two of a three-part series)
By Seth Cargiuolo, Chief Knowledge Officer, The Saint Consulting Group
Last week we opened the topic of Social Media with a ...
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Not All Opponents to New Development are NIMBYs
(The Saint Report posted a Washington City Paper report on Walmart'splanning success in DC without a fight. Here Mike Saint comments on a related discussion on NIMBYs between City Paper columnist Lydia DePillis and Megan McArdle, a senior editor for The Atlantic) P. Michael Saint, Chairman and CEO, The Saint Consulting Group I ...
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Social Media Tactics To Help Developers Win Support
(Editor’s Note: Seth Cargiuolo, our chief knowledge officer, says developers can use social media channels like Twitter and Facebook to reach out and attract community support for their projects. Here is part one of a three-part series on social media and laud use politics.)
By Seth Cargiuolo, Chief Knowledge Officer, The Saint Consulting Group
Social Media: two ...
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How to Win Community Support for Development: Nine Key Steps
By Patrick Fox, President, The Saint Consulting Group
With large-scale development often facing clamors of opposition, generating community support for a project is a challenge to developers. To persuade a community to support a new project often means overcoming issues of property use, real estate value, traffic, environmental issues or character of a neighborhood.
A developer needs ...
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Linear Land Use Projects Are Toughest to Win Local Approval
(This article first appeared in a monthly newsletter which Mike Saint publishes to all clients and friends of The Saint Consulting Group, and it triggered a series of related land use posts. If you would like to receive an email copy of The Saint Newsletter, contact mindus@tscg.biz) By P. Michael Saint, CEO, The Saint Consulting Group ...
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North Jersey Religious Groups Fighting Zoning Laws and Winning
Religious groups across North Jersey are challenging local zoning laws with plans to put houses of worship on dwindling taxable land, and if legal precedent is any judge, city boards and unhappy neighbors don’t have a prayer, The Record reports on NorthJersey.Com.
Reporter Deena Yellin writes that in North Jersey and statewide, the number of petitions to ...
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Anti-Sprawl Group Calls San Diego Transportation Plan ‘Disastrous’
San Diego’s Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) has drawn fire from a group that called it illegal and environmentally disastrous. The Cleveland National Forest Foundation also offered an alternative plan that would implement all the mass-transit proposals in the 40-year RTP during the coming 10 years.
They’ve dubbed their proposal the “50-10” transit plan.
The Regional Transportation Plan ...
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Strategic Communications #19: Getting Value out of Paid Media
(This is the 19th in a continuing series on strategic communications. Click here for earlier segments) By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group Paid media on political campaigns typically refers to television and radio advertising, which still remains the dominant medium for reaching a large universe of voters. For example, even though Jerry Brown was outspent ...
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