I suppose I should qualify my 'yahoo' to this announcement with an explanation... I am an almost-lifelong Cincinnatian, a veteran pr/marketing/communications practitioner in this region, and a strong fan of this area by choice.

For those readers of Dave's blog post who are not from Cincinnati, I join Dave in attesting that, along with the special folks who live and work here, there is definitely a deeply-rooted spirit of creativity and innovation, as well as a sense of camaraderie among marketing-field-related professionals. And, to Dave's litany of assets above, you can add a beautiful landscape and a renaissance of our downtown, our riverfront and historic districts. The end result: 'one heck of a place' to become “the Silicon Valley of consumer marketing.”