If you make your start-up a friendly, engaging place to visit and give your community somebody who is devoted just to them, then you are making your start-up a nice place to visit.
Wineries have always been a plaything for rich entrepreneurs like Mission Hill's Anthony von Mandl but less flamboyant estates, such as LaStella and Hester Creek (which has its own chef's table and cookery school), are engaging places, some modelled on Tuscan farmhouses.
Ultimately, this research provides a methodology to engage place-based communities when identifying CES in ecosystem service assessments.
And will Zimbabwe still be the engaged, literate place that created the book fair and only a few years ago started a promising international arts festival?
On cars with automatic transmissions, an additional lock is usually provided in the form of a pawl that can be engaged, by placing the shift lever in the "park" position, to prevent the drive shaft and rear wheels from turning.
Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has revealed she is engaged – by placing a notice in the Times.
"This makes you more engaged and places you under an obligation to respond".
Familiar territory, perhaps, and De Luna doesn't entirely avoid romantic or cynical clichés, but he also engages the place with affection, feeling, and a keen eye.
She offers another way to engage with place and people, be they the first inhabitants of this land, or – as with de Kretser's work – the plight of the displaced.
