information services online:

The .network glossary offers a definition of online information service, to some extent framed around the accessibility of Internet resources in the beginning. An evolvement of the thinking about information accessibility was triggered by the dynamic emergence of ecommerce after the mid-1990s. Information brokering, for example, replaced what had before been freely accessible access to information. By .network definition a data broker website should not lay claim to being an online information service. Clearly an online data broker is engaged in ecommerce (for example). Many ecommerce websites provide free access to worthwhile information, often weaving in subtle marketing messages with it. Perhaps, it's where encumbering the user comes into play, that a line exists to separate a true online information service from all else. In the final analysis, the product of the Web is information.

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libraries as information services online:

Many libraries qualify as online information services by .network definition. Since we (who we are) began searching the Web in the mid-1990s for contacts in position to supply location data (AKA economic development data) to enterprise developers and site selectors, we have had increasing success in turning to regional and local public libraries online when other resource suppliers have been unavailable. We have often found library personnel in position to tell us who to contact locally in addition to offering to supply, say, community profiles.

Alert librarians, although savvy about resources available in the communities they serve, are surprisingly detached from the politics of local economic development. Something that has been proven to be helpful, especially when competing organizations and personalities are aggressively sales oriented and tend to jump to a one-stop mode of service that the prospect is not yet ready to accept. We list regional and local libraries among the various types of location data suppliers and recommend that you, as an enterprise developer or site selector, not hesitate to access their websites when they are readily available, not that you overlook asking a librarian for advice on who to contact for assistance coupled with local economic development data.

College and university libraries, especially those that have programs of outreach into communities, are included as recommended contact points. If you are ready to gather information about a place of interest and want to find out if a library has what you need, copy and paste one of the following suggested italicized keyword combination in the search box at the top of this page. Notice that the suggestions include searching for a chamber of commerce as a location data supplier. For more about searching for chambers of commerce, CLICK HERE.

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Replace the word, location, with the identity of a place of interest. For example, say that you are interested in Atlanta, Georgia. If that were the case, location would become Atlanta, GA.

Search the Web for ... location public library online

Search the Web for ... location community data online

Search the Web for ... location economic development data online

Search the Web for ... location chamber of commerce

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find a local chamber of commerce:

Along with area and local development representatives, chambers of commerce as well as libraries are listed in the .network guide to location data suppliers. Use the links below to search for a chamber representing a place of interest or copy and paste suggested keyword combination above in the search field at the top of this page and Google the Web.

Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America

... (AACCLA) lists chambers based in 21 Latin America and the Caribbean

Chamber Find.com

... has file listing reasons to find and use a chamber; also, travel, business, finance, and other links that guide a search for something other than location name.

Chamber-of-Commerce.com

... search for chamber locations or names in International Chamber of Commerce and City-State-Province Directory. Has a tourism.** focus.

The Online Chambers / The Internet Connection

... covers national chambers around the world. Also regional and local chambers of commerce in Canada and the USA.

World Chamber Network

... worldwide search ... Global Chamber-Directory with over 12,000 CCI. CCI stands for Chamber of Commerce and Industry as defined in the WCN website

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Economic Development Tomorrow

... a 1991 publication of the American Economic Development Council. Among other things it defined economic development for practitioners, providing them with a bit of guidance on what their role is in the process as as location marketersif the marketing role interests you and you want access to a glossary, go to Marketing Terms.com.. Also, economic development practice may be considered as a specialized form of marketing. See the .network answer to a question often asked about the official definition of economic development today. The .network reference library provides a link to the glossary of which economic development practitioners working online may find useful economic development market research:

The definition of economic development market research that addresses location points out that it is a systematic conduct of an objective collection and analysis of data about it placed as a responsibility in the hands of the organization seeking its opportunities. The purpose of such research is to understand the location as a market so that useful and convincing information can be presented to prospects. Economic development is a process that spans location competitiveness. Those who are responsible for promoting should have an agenda of market research that covers the what they represent as well as the places with which they compete.

See the article, Need Market Research? Check Your Local Economic Development Organization (2007), by Anita Campbell at the Small Business Trends website.

Another definition of economic development market covers the process of seeking opportunities. In this case the market is where the prospects are. The research is the systematic collection and analysis of information about how to target prospects and organize to attract the attention of those who control development opportunities.

The purpose of any market research project is to achieve an increased understanding of the subject matter. With markets throughout the world becoming increasingly more competitive, market research is now on the agenda of many organizations, whether they be large or small.

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economic development marketing research:

Given that a national association of US economic developers choose marketing at the beginning of the 1990s as the operative word for describing how practitioners move the process forward, the important role of research is emphasized here. Economic development marketing research may be defined as one of functions that brings the area developer or the local development representative together with those who make the decisions about opportunities through information. In its definition of information used to identify and define marketing opportunities and problems; generate, refine, and evaluate marketing actions; monitor marketing performance; and improve understanding of marketing as a process. Marketing research specifies the information required to address these issues, designs the method for collecting information, manages and implements the data collection process, analyzes the results, and communicates the findings and their implications

http://www.economicdevelopment.net/tourism/papers/index.htm#what

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Economic Development Futures Web Journal

... Don Iannone's blog had a mission to provide ... information and insights into economic development practice ... He maintained his economic development resource online for four years before making the following statement.

My interest in the blog's current content and format have waned ... moving in new directions ... Iannone provided the following link with what was apparently his final entry: http://www.don-iannone.com/edfutures(February 2007).

Various futurists (example) make predictions that affect the practice of economic development today; therefore, we took a cue from Don Iannone who wrote in his 03/16/05 blog: When in doubt, ask Google. We Googled for the following: "economic development" future predictions.

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Reed Business / Manufacturing.net:

Reed Business Information / Manufacturing.net is a resource for selecting various business and industry magazines, subscription free. The address for selecting publications is http://www.reed4success.com. Among the publications listed are Industrial Maintenance and Plant Operation, Logistics Management and EDN. In the latter case, ED stands for Electronic Design. Throughout the rest of The Network you will see ED standing for Economic Development as in Economic Development.Net.

Reed publishes Building Design and Construction.

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** Tourism-related resource paper: Tourism as Economic Development.