presented by Dave Barnhart

Wednesday, February 20th - Noon to 1 PM

The Mercado, ASU at the Downtown Phoenix Campus - 502 E. Monroe St.

RSVP at least before the program to asulectures@asu.edu

Blogging has evolved into a cutting-edge marketing tool that is immediate, personal, and engaging.  Blogging can boost your image, exposure, reputation, and revenue. Best of all, blogging is within the financial reach of everyone.  Done well, a small company or organization can achieve results that large firms with millions of dollars to spend on marketing would be hard-pressed to achieve.

Blogging expert Dave Barnhart will help you learn what a blog is, how they work, why they are so effective and how you can
get started.

About the Speaker

Dave Barnhart is a Blog Strategy Consultant, founder of Business Blogging Pros, and a passionate blogger.  His
company helps small businesses have a large impact without correspondingly large marketing and PR budgets. Dave is a
frequent speaker to groups of business owners and entrepreneurs and recently was a guest on Pat McMahon's
show on KAZ-TV.

A couple years ago, Dave, an avid gourmet chef, started a food and cooking blog called The Fumbling Foodie.  It began
as an experiment for leveraging the power of the blogosphere for marketing and PR.  The Fumbling Foodie has been quoted on the CBS News website and many Fumbling Foodie posts rank
in the top 10 Google searches with over a million hits.

If you own property between 7th St & 7th Ave, from Buckeye to McDowell, you will want to attend one of the upcoming Public Meetings to be be held during February and March.  The Urban Form Project is an extensive study that has been taking place over the last 18 months which will ultimately result in re-zoning parts of the area described above.  The Form Based Code, will change things like shading requirements for new Real Estate Projects/buildings, modify the types of uses allowed in certain neigbhorhoods to foster more live/work uses as well as relax parking requirements for businesses operating from existing older buildings, creating a more interesting downtown.  These are just a few of the highlights of the zoning changes ahead.  The Phoenix Planning Department will be doing presentations on their proposed changes, and providing time for the public's feedback.  The first Meeting will be at 4PM, February 20th at City Hall, Assembly Rooms B & C, 200 W Washington.

Find out more about the Urban Form Project

To receive a Calendar of the remaining Public Meetings, send an e-mail to Dean Brennan at dean.brennan@phoenix.gov .