News we use

Thanks for checking out our website and being a part of the Cape Fear Economic Development community. We wanted to make you aware of a news feed that we have here and encourage you not only to read that news feed and find stories there about local economic development, local projects, local promise, but also to help us build this source of information up. We’ve found that this site and other sites like it that present a positive, discoverable, searchable, technologically and environmentally savvy picture of this area, not only help people learn about the Cape Fear but help reinforce the vision of this area as a place where a lot of things are happening, where people like you and me are getting involved.

So please enjoy reading this news — You can do so in a few different ways. You can do so by using the RSS feed in Google reader or another tool — and I’ll talk a minute about using RSS as a source for news from all over — or you can go to this page and find the latest stories of local economic development summarized and linked to. You’ll see that this is a very important subset of the local news that presents, like the Greater Wilmington Business Journal and other sites, news with a specific focus, even with a specific picture of this area. It’s “news we use”. You can share the RSS feed or this web page with friends, and you can alert us to stories and projects we haven’t heard about yet by emailing us at info@capefearedc.org

We as members of the CFEDC encourage each other to pass around links and stories we find by posting them here rather than emailing them each other, as many of us are wont to do. We’re working on being open about what our council and our region are doing, and we’re trying to collect all our the things we find in one place. In this way we have a sort of bulletin board we can use to make ourselves more informed, make our community more informed, and provide a better sense of what’s going on here to others outside this community — prospective residents, entrepreneurs, small businesspeople, retirees, employees, tourists.

RSS explained, from WhatIsRSS?

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.