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Economic Development Web Content

To be competitive in economic development today, your community needs a website that provides in-depth information on living and doing business in your community. Whether you’re dealing with a site selection consultant or a family looking to relocate, the first place they go for information is the Internet.

If they can’t find you there, they just might move on to the next community on their list. Those without a presence on the web are missing opportunities without even knowing it.

Once you’ve made the decision to create, upgrade, or expand your website, what information do you need to include? A good example of what to include on your website can be found at Economic Development Online (http://www.economicdevelopmentonline.com/), an educational website that, “provides recommended strategies for the development of economic development web pages and step-by-step discussion of the process and reasoning.” The checklist from this site is also attached below.

Another site that provides information on communities and that may be a resource for you when building or enhancing your website is wikipedia. Go to this link for an example of community specific information on the web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naperville,_il.

We encourage you to showcase your community on the web. And, remember, once created, your work is not done. The most accurate, current websites are the most successful ones.

Please check out our website checklist before you get started.