EP 40: Know Your Maker (Plus: More of the Best Fictional Mayors)

It's time to meet your maker -- your talented, independent, local creator of tangible goods, like art, clothing, instruments, toys, knick-knacks, tech tools, anything. Your city or town might even have its own, motivated maker community that experts are increasingly calling a missing link in the local economic development strategy. On this episode we hear from four of these experts and dig in to a recent report about this "maker economy." What can your city make of it? Show notes: Report, "Discovering Your City's Maker Economy" - http://nlc.org/resource/discovering-your-citys-maker-economy Background on Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/about?ref=ftr Etsy's Craft Entrepreneurship initiative ("Our mission is to expand access to microbusiness education for underrepresented creative entrepreneurs") - https://www.etsy.com/craftentrepreneurship White House archives, "Nation of Makers" - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/node/316486 CitiesSpeak, "Exploring Nashville's Small Manufacturing Revolution" - https://citiesspeak.org/2017/12/08/exploring-nashvilles-small-manufacturing-revolution/ Burgermeister Meisterburger bans toys (so, not a fan of toy makers) - https://youtu.be/xn_p8Z8Ltng