BEA Regional Outreach: Building New Alliances

Robert L. BrownAUBER Annual Conference

Bellingham, WA October 12, 2008

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BEA’s Strategic Objective with Customers

Make BEA more responsive to the needs of its customers and partners by:

Sustaining and enhancing BEA’s external communications

Providing opportunities for user feedback

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Regional Program Outreach Efforts

Provide innovations/future improvements

Present research, products, and training at conferences

Expand on partnerships with customers

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Provide Regional Innovations

Accelerated release of estimates New products produced More data released Research results released Graphics and mapping provided

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Provide Future Improvements

Accelerating release of county personal income

Making GDP for metropolitan areas permanent

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Present Research, Products, Training at Conferences

Presentations Current products Research projects

Participation in Organizations Special sessions

RIMS II training workshops

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Expand Partnerships With Customers

All day workshops on BEA regional accounts C2ER (ACCRA) and Washington State U.

organized BEA and guest speakers on the regional

accounts

More active participation with select organizations AUBER, NABE, PNREC, C2ER, Brookings

Teleconference with NABE on GDP for metro areas

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Expand Partnerships—Cont.

BEA—PNREAP—University economic research bureau workshops BEA provides overview of regional PNREAP provides free computer-derived

analytics of BEA regional data University units discuss their value-added

Tailored products for the local communities Forecasts—Outlook—Impact analyses

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Benefits of PNREAP/University BER/BEA Workshops

All sponsors benefit

Reaches new audience

More interactive with audience

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Next Step

BEA sponsored day-long workshop With Central Washington U./PNREAP

and other university host