1. BEA Regional Outreach: Building New Alliances Robert L. Brown AUBER Annual Conference Bellingham, WA October 12, 2008

2. www.bea.gov BEA’s Strategic Objective with Customers  Make BEA more responsive to the needs of its customers and partners by:  Sustaining and enhancing BEA’s external communications  Providing opportunities for user feedback

3. www.bea.gov Regional Program Outreach Efforts  Provide innovations/future improvements  Present research, products, and training at conferences  Expand on partnerships with customers

4. www.bea.gov Provide Regional Innovations  Accelerated release of estimates  New products produced  More data released  Research results released  Graphics and mapping provided

5. www.bea.gov Provide Future Improvements  Accelerating release of county personal income  Making GDP for metropolitan areas permanent

6. www.bea.gov Present Research, Products, Training at Conferences  Presentations  Current products  Research projects  Participation in Organizations  Special sessions  RIMS II training workshops

7. www.bea.gov Expand Partnerships With Customers  All day workshops on BEA regional accounts  C2ER (ACCRA) and Washington State U. organized  BEA and guest speakers on the regional accounts  More active participation with select organizations  AUBER, NABE, PNREC, C2ER, Brookings  Teleconference with NABE on GDP for metro areas

8. www.bea.gov Expand Partnerships—Cont.  BEA—PNREAP—University economic research bureau workshops  BEA provides overview of regional  PNREAP provides free computer-derived analytics of BEA regional data  University units discuss their value-added  Tailored products for the local communities  Forecasts—Outlook—Impact analyses

9. www.bea.gov Benefits of PNREAP/University BER/BEA Workshops  All sponsors benefit  Reaches new audience  More interactive with audience

10. www.bea.gov Next Step  BEA sponsored day-long workshop  With Central Washington U./PNREAP and other university host