Chamber of Commerce wants you to tell them how to better advocate

The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce is looking to reorient itself and part of that regeneration will include working with smaller business, entrepreneurs and the technology and creative economies in and around the Illadelph.
The first major public step in this new advocacy campaign called Relay — pushed by the chamber’s new CEO and admitted gadget-head Rob Wonderling, with whom we spoke earlier this year — is a survey of more than 25,000 people, sent via a major e-mail blast and promoted on the organization’s Web site. Take the survey and give your opinion here.

“We are reaching out to both members and non-members to get a sense of the business community’s priorities, and develop an advocacy network,” chamber spokeswoman Megan Cribbs wrote Technically Philly.
The survey, which will run until November, is asking for positions on the region’s business climate, infrastructure, workforce and quality of life, specfically. But its real purpose is suggesting just what the chamber should focus its advocacy on — be it tax policy, funding, networking, training and retooling or the like. [Full Disclosure: Technically Philly was filled out the survey, as asked.]
What the chamber, which seems to have had little impact, influence or presence in the region’s creative community development in the past decade, will do with those survey responses is, as the Inquirer’s Mike Armstrong suggested, another case. Read more here.
The chamber is characterizing Relay as “a sustained, multi-year effort to advance our region’s ability to attract, retain and grow jobs by advocating for workable reform based on core principles shared by the business community.”
How they’ll do it just may be influenced by your voices. Let them hear it here.