Blogs

Convergence by Tom Fellrath http://fellrath.wordpress.com/

Books

Brooks, Roger A. and Maury Forman. The 25 Immutable Rules of Successful Tourism. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 2003.

Dent, Harry S. Jr. The Next Great Bubble Boom. New York: Free Press, 2004.

Dent, Harry S. Jr. The Roaring 2000s. New York: Touchstone, 1998.

Florida, Richard. The Flight of the Creative Class. New York: HarperBusiness, 2005.

Florida, Richard. The Rise of the Creative Class. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Forman, Maury and Jim Mooney. Community Wisdom 2. Dubuque: Kendal/Hunt, 2004.

Hooper, Allan. 101+ Quips, Quotes and Concepts for Sustainable Small Town Development, Rural Partners of Michigan, 2006.

Karlgaard, Rich. Life 2.0: How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness.  New York: Crown Business, 2004.

Kotkin, Joel. the new geography. New York: Random House, 2001

Schultz, Jack. Boomtown USA: The 7 ½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns. Herndon, VA: NAIOP, 2004.

Newsletters

Blane Canada LTD. http://www.blanecanada.com/

Economic Gardening List-Serv from Littleton, Colorado http://www.littletongov.org/

ED Leaders by Don Iannone http://econdevleader.blogspot.com/

EDPro News from I-Open http://edpro.blogspot.com/

Knowledge @ Wharton http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/

Main Street Economist  
http://www.kansascityfed.org/RuralCenter/mainstreet/MainStMain.htm

Montana Associated Technology Roundtables http://www.matr.net/

National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship www.publicforuminstitute.org/nde/join/

Regional Community News by Tom Christoffel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/regions_work/messages

Rural Entrepreneurship News from the Rural Entrepreneurship Center http://www.ruraleship.org/index_html?page=content/ruralenews.htm

Southern Compass www.southern.org/compass

The Whittaker Report http://www.whittakerassociates.com/newsletter/new/index.htm

Guides

Community Development Financing: Coming up with the Money http://www.stlouisfed.org/community/selfstudy/

Organizations

ACCRA – A Non-Profit Organization Promoting Excellence in Research for Community and Economic Development.  http://www.accra.org/index.html

Angel Capital Association http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org/resources/research.cfm

Center for Rural Entrepreneurship http://www.ruraleship.org/index_html

Center for Women’s Business Research http://www.nfwbo.org/index.asp

CDCF – Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions http://www.cdfi.org/stateprof.asp

Community and Rural Development Institute http://www.cardi.cornell.edu/

Community Vitality Center http://www.cvcia.org/index.html

Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education http://www.entre-ed.org/index.htm

Ewin Marion Kaufmann Foundation http://www.kauffman.org/

International Economic Development Council http://www.iedconline.org/

National Association of Manufacturers http://www.nam.org/s_nam/index.asp

National Business Incubation Association http://www.nbia.org/index.php

National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship: Public Forum Institute http://publicforuminstitute.org/nde/index.htm

Regional Technology Strategies, Inc. http://www.rtsinc.org/

Sonoran Institute http://www.sonoran.org/