location search:

See the last page in the .network introduction series if you are interested in searching for a location. This resources archive you are using is the the .network Site Location Assistance website, in case you hadn't noticed. Here are several suggestions for searching for a location ...

The information published in the .network Find Me Here website from the Global Registry of Contacts is organized by location. Search for the name of location you are interested in and look down the list of contacts to find what appears to be a location data supplier. You should be able, as a member of the .network target user group. to contact a location data supplier and ask questions or request the specific business information you want from the place of interest. In the event that the contact you find does not show a link and/or information so that you can move on, you can anonymously request what you want directly from us. We will respond to your request by providing personal search services for free. In the event that you search, but do not find the place of interest listed in Find Me Here at all, you can, likewise, anonymously request our assistance without incurring any cost or obligations.

Search for a place of interst in Site Location Assistance.com, using the same search tool that you find available in Find Me Here.com. The same free offer of location search assistance is available. For more information about free search assistance, see the explanation of our search promise in the series of pages that introduce The Network. CLICK HERE to reqest that a location be listed.

Economic Development.net is a companion website to Site Location Assistance.com and Find Me Here.com in helping to carry out the mission of The Network. You can use it as a resource for site selection. It's laid out so that you enter its Area Development section to a global list of countries, then step by step make your way towards the place of interest to you. If you want to know the approach taken by The Network to fill Area Development pages with listings of locations around the world that want economic development, CLICK HERE. If you want to see to it that a place of interet is listed in Economic Development.net without cost or any obligation on your part, you can make the same anonymous request as indicated above.

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Suze Orman:

When Suze Orman's e-book about women and money was offered for free by Opra Winfrey at http://www.oprah.com, more than a million copies in English and approximately 19,000 copies in Spanish were downloaded during 33 hour period (February 2008). Women & Money in the traditional paper version was ranked high on Amazon.com where it was, of course, offered for sale. If you want to know more about this resouce and its availability copy and paste the following italicized text in the search box at the top of this page and Google the Web. The fact that the publisher allowed the free download shows the acceptance of Internet's power.

If the occurance reported above about Orman's book sparks an interest is in using the power of the Internet for economic development marketing, CLICK HERE for an additional resource.

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Acknowledged for indirectly prompting us to add Change and Development as a page in the .network glossary. Intelligent Enterprise Magazine referred to Don Tapscott as a change agent and influential futurist. He's listed here with Alvin Toffler and others who have made significant contributions to enterprise and economic development as futurists.

Alvin Toffler:

Acknowledged as an influential futurist because he introduced the expression electronic cottage in his book, The Third Wave (1980) and, by doing so, influenced the relocation of Economic Development Services. Specifically, the relocation was to an electronic cottage in a mountain community with a sophisticated high tech infrastructure away from urban sprawl.

In search of the Electronic Cottage, addresses ... The geography of Professionals Workers Working at Home and is one source for more information, another is Information Society Links. The latter resource is full of broken links.

When Toffler coined the term electronic cottage he opened the door to thinking about work practices such as telecommuting. He revitalized the concept of cottage industry.

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FYI: About Galaxy Classifieds, established online in 1994. CLICK HERE to access its business and commerce links and information page.

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Forbes magazinesmore about them. Also use the following links to access various sections of Forbes.com offering resources for enterprise and economic development.

http://www.forbes.com/ business

http://www.forbes.com/ entrepreneur

http://www.forbes.com/ entrepreneurs tool kit

http://www.forbes.com/ small business survival guide (more small business resources)

http://www.forbes.com/ lists

http://www.forbes.com/ Asia

http://www.forbes.com/ Europe

http://www.sitelocationassistance.com/search/cn/sppublications.htm Forbes listing.

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small business resources:

Yahoo Directory / Small Business Information Services

Bankrate.com / financial glossary / category: small businessmore from Bankrate.com

Forbes.com / Entrepreneur Library (more links to Forbes business resources)

Office.com / Start your business list of featured articles

SBA / US Small Business Administration / (What is small business? answer)

US Map for finding SBA contacts

Business Finance.com (source)

The .network glossary page: Small Business Development

http://www.economicdevelopment.net/ed/sbd.htm

NWS Small Businessresources from www.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au

feasibility business planning survival marketing and sales

advertising and promotion customer service more from New South Wales

Use the search tool below to find additional small business resources online. Suggestions for keyword combinations to copy and paste into the search field are listed in italics below.

Search the Web for ... small business resources [location]*

Search the Web for ... small business services [location]*

Search the Web for ... small business development services

Search the Web for ... small business start up resources

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A Durham, NC user suggested listing http://www.businessfinance.com. Professor John McCann of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham posted pages titled Information Society Links and Articles About the Digital Age online that were among the first resource listings in this archive. McCann's file were last updated in 1996 and 1997 respectively; therefore, they contain many dead end links. Suggestion copy keywords or phrases surrounding broken links and search on your own using the Google/.network search engine. Here are a few examples (what you see in italics are from McCann's files, except for definitions).

"Alvin Toffler is a futurest" ... [item foundWait for the promo item to clear!]

"information revolution" challenge Japan [item foundSearch PDF file for Japan}]

"Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age"

Search for "FEED magazine" [item found: Wikipedia article]

Search Forbes.com for George Gilder [search results]more Forbes' resources

Information Highway: history, vision, issuesdefinition of information highway

Time Magazine ... Cyberspacedefinition of cyberspace

"Harvard Information Infrastructure Project" [item found]

Fortune Magazine "Infotech Special"more Fortune Magazine's resources

Discovery Channel "History of the Internet" [item found]

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There's no place like home especially when a small-business owner is looking for support and financing. Local economic development agencies on the municipal, regional or state level are an often-overlooked but useful source of financing ... comments posted September 2000 by Jenny McCune at Bankrate.com The name of article quoted is With local economic development agencies, home is where the financing is.

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* Add the name of place that you are interested in, for example, search the Web for ... small business services Florence, AL or site selection services small business North Alabama

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broken link:

... an address string referenced by a hyperlink that is not effective for making a connection to a unit of information of the Internet; a link to a dead end message. See the dead end section of the Network search promise for one approach to resolving problems created by broken links found by search engines or published in webfiles.

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During its nearly 50 years of existence the International Development Research Council awarded professional designations its members. The designation Master Professional was awarded to active members. Others who were resource and service providers to active members were awarded Associate Master Professional.

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