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Capsule Description: The Network operates with all services online. It provides free-access to resources for enterprise development and site selection as processes that lead to economic development in locations throughout the world. The focus is on putting a core user group in touch with resource and service providers. For that, the Global Registry of Contacts is provided along with access to as many other directories as are brought to our attention. Tied the contact directories for search effectiveness are the Enterprise and Economic Development Resources Center and the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary. The latter is a business dictionary and learning tool.
About Bob Glover:
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Bob Glover Online:
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Q&A:
Is this the Bob Glover who worked in South Carolina during the 1970s and early 80s?
Yes. Glover was Associate Director for Economic Development at the South Carolina State Development Board from 1974 to 1984 where, among other accomplishments, he organized and directed the fist effort to computerize the management of prospect services. The effort was started up started up without a hitch on a main-frame computer at the end of 1979. When the first Apple IIc computer was available a year or so later, it was possible to reproduce the original contact directory program on it. Today the Global Registry of Contacts maintained by The Network can be traced back to the work done in South Carolina. The SCSDB is now the South Carolina Department of Commerce.
Is this the Bob Glover who worked in Tennessee in the early 1970s?
Yes, Glover joined the Tennessee Governor's Industrial Development Division just before the legislature created the Department of Economic and Community Development. He was Deputy Director. While there he was given the task of merging the Governor's Tourism Division and the Industrial Development Division. That experience would later pay off for Glover when in worked as a consultant for the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade & Tourism at the time of the Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA — see Tourism as Economic Development / A Brief Guide for Communities and Enterprise Developers.
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Unfortunately the Bob Glover listing at Zoominfo.com is a result of putting information together without checking facts. It has gone uncorrected for years, making it useless for networking purposes. Please see correct information published at the top of this page.
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