Success Story and Marketing Notes

Greetings Greenbush business partners and AEPA vendors. I hope your summer is going well.

A success story...On June 11, a tornado destroyed much of the town of Chapman, Kan., a town of approximately 1,400 residents east of Abilene, Kan. Most of the town sustained significant damage as did the schools.

Williams Scotsman, a Kansas AEPA vendor, immediately stepped in to offer assistance with modular classrooms to ensure students will have a place in which to learn this fall. This is a great example of how AEPA and quality partners like Williams Scotsman can make great things happen for schools through conscientious leadership and the advantage of pre-bid AEPA contracts.

I encourage other business partners and AEPA vendors to contact me to inquire how you may assist the Chapman, Kan. school district in recovering from this tornado.

Marketing Notes...I have begun individual, anecdotal surveys of key superintendents in Greenbush's primary service area. Preliminary discussions are yielding some very interesting comments on how Greenbush and business partners/AEPA vendors can more effectively apprise school administrators of educational resources available to them. I will post my notes once I have completed my discussions and compiled notes.

"Secondlife" for Education

Secondlife is an Internet-based virtual environment. Greenbush continues to explore viable ways to utilize 3-D virtual environments like Secondlife to provide educational opportunities that are unavailable through more traditional delivery vehicles.

I subscribe to an technology RSS feed from "Education Week" and I received the following article today. I wanted to share this article with you to plant a seed amongst business partners/AEPA vendors to begin brainstorming how to utilize 3-D virtual environments for the benefit of school districts serve by Greenbush.

Click here: "Educators Get a 'Second Life'"

Cutting Costs for School Districts

I wanted to share with you an article from the June 2008 "District Administrator" publication that features a Kansas AEPA vendor, Tremco/WTI. Dave Adams, Tremco's director of education and government solutions, articulates how to saves school districts money with their roofing solutions.

Check it out: Cutting Costs from the Inside Out -District Administrator, June 2008

The World is Awesome

I saw this on The Discovery Channel the other night and thought Greenbush business partners would enjoy it. Click on this link The World is Awesome