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Golden Shovel Agency Helps Electric Cooperative Fuel Economic Recovery With PlaceVR Technology
Jul 29 2020Visitors Can Take a Virtual Reality Tour to Explore Rural Oregon With 360-Degree Video
Despite travel concerns due to the COVID-19 public health crisis, it’s possible to visit Union County Oregon right now through a new 360-degree video released by Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative (OTEC). This area in Northeastern Oregon migh...
At Golden Shovel Agency, we know that you want to be a respected leader of a growing community. How do you become just that? You need to make your community stand out to people and businesses. We understand how hard you work to uplift your community, but sometimes the resource...
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative Launches 360-Degree Video Tour Produced by Golden Shovel Agency
If you were going to travel to every corner of Harney County, Oregon - the 9th biggest county of the United States - your journey could take several days, but now you can get a taste for al...
Rarely in life do events occur stirring the collective conscience of humanity, causing us to pause our hectic lives and truly see the world around us. One such event occurred on May 25th, 2020 when George Floyd Jr., a 46-year-old-black man, tragically died during an arrest attempt by Minneapolis polic...
Electric Cooperative Uses PlaceVR Immersive Technology to Attract Future Visitors with Virtual Reality Tours
LITTLE FALLS, MN -- When you experience the opening of the new 360-degree video released by Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative to promote economic development in Baker County, your brain is going to think that you’re sitting i...
Electric Cooperative Uses PlaceVR Technology to Boost Economic Development Despite Travel Restrictions
Opportunities and Quality of Life in Remote Northeastern Oregon Promoted with 360-Degree Video and Virtual Reality
The landscape of Grant County Oregon is vast and right now travel restrictions are keeping visitors away, but thanks to a new 360-degree vide...
PlaceVR Technology Makes Agricultural Safety Training Memorable and Easy to Deliver for Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative
Golden Shovel Produces 360-Degree Video to Teach Ag Workers About the Hazards of Working Near Power Poles and Lines
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative has released a new training video that aims to reduce the number o...
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative Collaborates With Golden Shovel Agency to Save Lives With Downed Power Line Safety Video
360-Degree Video and Virtual Reality Fills a Big Gap to Teach People What To Do in a Vehicle-Power Pole Crash
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative (OTEC), in collaboration with Golden Shovel Agency, has released ...
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative Teaches Safety Protocol for First Responders with PlaceVR Technology
360-Degree Video Created by Golden Shovel Agency Stimulates What It's Like to Be on an Accident Scene
First Responders now have a better way to learn safety protocol for approaching a vehicle crash that involves a downed power pol...
This Idea’s Time Has Come
Apr 20 2020I know what Victor Hugo meant when he wrote, “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” I know this because as we have all been slammed into this new reality that we live in with the COVID-19 pandemic, an idea that the team at Golde...
On Monday, February 3, 2020, Golden Shovel's Aaron Brossoit will share insights about how virtual reality is changing workforce attraction and retention. This insightful presentation will offer video examples that communities are using to shape the future.
Mr. Brossoit's presentation will be part of the Klan Gohar's opening keynote address, "Building th...
By 24-7 Press Release
York, NE: York County Development Corporation (YCDC) is pleased to announce the availability of a 360-degree virtual reality (VR) tour that provides prospective businesses and site selection consultants with a full-immersion experience of the York region from anywhere in the world. The PlaceVR tour, created by Golde...
Article originally posted on cooperatives.com by Victoria Rocha on October 31, 2019
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative’s economic development website entices users to explore “the spirit of the Western frontier” in its beautiful and rugged service area.
With “mountains, valleys, rivers and lakes, Eastern Oregon is simultaneously breathtaking and accessible,” reads the website...
Autonomous driving cars, artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing and the sharing economy are all examples of how new technology is changing the landscape of our communities. How to anticipate and prepare for these changes was a common theme of the recent Southern Economic Development Council’s Annual Conference in New Orleans, the Texa...
Presenting the Power of PlaceVR
Jul 25 2019By Aaron Brossoit, Golden Shovel's CEO
Relationships are key in economic development. A lot of deals come down to a handshake. But let’s face it: this puts smaller, more remote communities at a disadvantage in business attraction since site selectors don’t often have the time and money to visit smaller towns.
Whe...
By 24-7 Press Release
Lower Sioux Agency Historic Site Collaborates with Golden Shovel Agency to Bring Virtual Reality Experience to Visitors
(Little Falls, MN, May 24, 2019) – Visitors to the Lower Sioux Agency Historic Site can now experience the expansive trails and outlying structures with an immersive virtual reality (VR) experienc...
Economic developers face an uphill battle to get site selectors and executives to visit their community and tour available properties. With site selectors scouting locations throughout the country, and potentially the world, it can take months or years of concerted efforts to arrange for a FAM tour. VR technology i...
By Aaron Brossoit
Golden Shovel Agency unveiled PlaceVR in Toronto at the 2017 International Economic Development Council’s Annual Conference. Our team showcased the first 360 videos of familiarization tours and site tours to the industry. For economic development professionals promoting their regions, these spherical videos are the best way to virtuall...
Marc Andreesen said “Software is eating the world” and that is increasingly true. The most valuable businesses today are software companies that have replaced enterprises in older industries. Likewise, digitally-enhanced economic development organizations (EDOs) are making traditional ones obsolete. The most out-of-touch economic development professionals are either unaware this is happening...
By 24-7 Press Release
Attracting workers and businesses is the name of the economic development game today and Executive Director for York County Development Corporation, Lisa Hurley has a game changing strategy. On November 16, 2017, York, NE will begin production on virtual reality tours to bring awareness to the area.
Golden Shovel Agency...
APEX Debuts 360-Degree Virtual Reality Tour
Sep 20 2017By 24-7 Press Release
Duluth, MN: The Area Partnership for Economic Expansion (APEX) is pleased to announce the availability of a 360-degree virtual reality(VR) tour that provides prospective business partners and site selection consultants a full-immersion experience of the APEX region from anywhere in the world. The PlaceVR tour, created by Golden Shovel Agency...
By 24-7 Press Release
APEX, JOCO and Little Falls, MN were the first three communities to unveil their immersion videos created by Golden Shovel Agency.
LITTLE FALLS, MN – In front of an intrigued group of economic development professionals at IEDC in Toronto, Canada, Aaron Brossoit, CEO of Golden Shovel Agency, unveile...
Imagine teleporting to your favorite vacation spot, climbing the Himalayas or a soaking up the sun on a distant island. This can all be done from the comfort of your home, without fighting traffic at a crowded airport. Virtual teleportation is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but realit...
The Golden Shovel Team is Unveiling the Latest in Economic Marketing Innovation at IEDC 2017
Sep 11 2017Come witness something brand new to economic development, where Golden Shovel will be unveiling the latest economic marketing innovation at IEDC in Toronto.
We will showcase three elite communities who are “virtually” disrupting the industry during the conference on September 17-20 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.
“Virtually” impossible to miss! Se...