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‘Telling the Port Story’ Heather Morris Director of Communications and Community Relations
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Helping the Port prosper The Communications Division promotes the Port and international trade by informing and educating the industry and community – “telling the Port Story…your story.”
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Communications Tool Box: We Tell the Port Story Through: Advertising Newsletters: Industry/Community Electronically – web and email Videos…clips Educational programs Community events
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Trade advertising
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More trade advertising These ads run in the Journal of Commerce Cargo Business News American Shipper Cunningham Report
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On-line Advertising… http://cargobusinessnews.com/
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On-line Advertising…
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Clean Trucks Program Ads This is a billboard on the 710 Freeway, but we’ve also placed ads in the Press-Telegram, Grunion Gazette, Long Beach and Los Angeles Business Journal
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More Clean Trucks…
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Community advertising
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Newsletters, email and print
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Email updates Subscribe at www.polb.com/subscribe
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Social media www.facebook.com/PortofLB
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Tweet, tweet www.twitter.com/portoflongbeach
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Port TV: ‘Pulse’ and YouTube www.youtube.com/portoflongbeach
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Community outreach Join us at Green Port Fest, the annual open house attended in 2009 by 10,000 friends, neighbors
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Reaching out with harbor tours…
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Community events…
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Let’s Talk Port, New Series Begins…
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What do we get out of it? Huge benefits… Informed public Port supporters Transparency Goodwill … a great investment!
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Educational Outreach
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The result is Public and industry support for $750 million Middle Harbor Project to improve efficiency, cut pollution 50%, create 14,000 new jobs
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Next up The Port is proposing to replace the aging bridge with a $1.1 billion replacement to improve traffic flow and safety
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We need your support Construction would support $2.8 billion in economic activity and 4,000 jobs a year for six years, and keep the Port competitive
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