site selection / find a location:

The Network collects information about contacts from whom site selectors gather information about places of interest. Such contacts are referred to as location data suppliers.

Information collected is published in The Global Registry of Contacts. Essential information about location data suppliers is published online to accommodate searches by members of the .network user group. Everyone is invited to recommend location data supplier listings for the GRC. Anyone* who searches the GRC can request that links be added to information published online for getting in touch with contacts as well as for accessing location profiles or other data for carrying out the mission of The Network. The service of answering requests is provided for free.

* An exception is location data suppliers requesting links for themselves — more explanation

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site selection and real estate:

Ultimately the site selection process ends with enterprises taking possession of real estate when projects are successfully concluded. Those who provide assistance during a search (resource and service providers) may be representatives of places seeking economic development or consultants. Enterprise developers make the choices of whom to contact for assistance. Economic developers and other types of representatives of locations are a choice. Real estate sales people and consultants are a choice. Real estate consultants sometimes identify themselves as site location consultants. About Economic Development, page 4, lists site selection and real estate information providers among the various location data suppliers.

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What does a site selector do?

answer: location work.

Site selection is a process of enterprise development. It is the site location work that involves searching for a place to startup or expand the operations of an enterprise. It involves relocation work. It's important to places seeking economic development ... (source).

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site selection / identify a location:

Look under location in Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary definition of location identity. Try searching the Global Registry of Contacts for a location identity if your interest is in finding and requesting information from a location data supplier or look through Area Development in the Economic Development Network website. The .network library has a Map Room with tools for finding locations. Following are examples of various ways that places of interest for site selection have been searched on the Web — try copying and pasting the italicized text to a search engine, keeping quotation marks intact, (page up) or Google for a place of interest to you.

Search the Web ... China "site location" "economic development"

	Search the Web ... "Waynesboro, GA" US "Chamber of Commerce" information
	Search the Web ... "Paris, FR" "economic development " information
	Search the Web ... "Paris, FR" "economic development " information
	Search the Web ... "Richmond, VA" "site selection " "economic development"
	Search the Web ... "Toronto, ON" "economic development " information
	Search the Web ... "Nuevo Leon, MX" "economic development " contact

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site selection / associations offered free location and real estate search assistance:

The Network lists North American membership organizations in a special section of its Global Registry of Contacts. Associations linked for access to their websites are listed below because they have an arrangement with a consultant/location data broker for their members to obtain free site selection services and information about ... available buildings and sites for companies with plans to relocate or expand (source of quote is the Site Selection Network).

Among SSN information sources are economic development organizations that pay an annual membership fee to be a part of the service. Other member resource providers are ... utilities, state departments, regional groups, rural electric coops, and real estate brokers. (id. SSN website).

Actually, you and enterprise developers who are members of the following associations have a dual advantage. The SSN contact directory is freely access able as is the .network Global Registry of Contacts. (The GRC advantage lies with the fact the resource and service provider contacts for site selection are able to register and update their records in the database for free as well as it being freely access able to all members of the .network target audience.)

The Network offers its Site Selection Directory. It is a free utility for members of the .network user group with services available to protect confidential plans and activities. Members of the organizations listed below as well as all other who qualify as prospects for places seeking economic development are welcomed to use the SSD. It's a free .network service.

American Hotel and Lodging Association

Society of Office and Industrial Realtors

PAGE UP if you are a member of one of the organizations listed above or any other trade association involved in planning an expansion or relocation or stating up a new venture.

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site selection / Euroseek:

Find information, products, or people ... in Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and beyond. (source of quote). The latest information submitted to The Network indicates that Catherine Sahlgren, Stockholm, Sweden is the search engine providers managing director. The latest use of Euroseek to query the Web revealed it is powered by Google that same as the search engine at the top of this page.

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European search engines, directories and lists:

In addition to what www.euroseek.com has to offer, www.Searchenginesoftheworld.com provides access to search engines for the following counties through www.netmasters.co.uk: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City. The Netmasters website also provides access to European newspapers.

Search Engines of the World has links to search engine lists for Asia and Australasia. Any definition of Australasia should point out its global positioning similarity to Oceania or Oceanica.

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Australia, New Zealand and Oceania search engines:

Search Engines of the World (see above) provides access to Oceania search engines as follows: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and South Pacific.

It is mentioned above with link provided that www.netmasters.co.uk is a resource for accessing the websites of European newspapers. This resource archive of The Network that you are now using reported earlier that a website, Newslink.org, is a useful reference in the same way. The Newslink website provides access to Oceania newspapers. Australian newspaper links are reported on a separate Newslink webpage.

US Regional Pacific Islands, a resource file of the Regional Site Selection Directory, covers Oceania. It's links are to information about their economic development resources and contacts.

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Search engines of Asia:

Search Engines of the World (see above) coverage of Asia provides links for the following countries: China, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Korea, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, and Syria. Some of these countries may be listed elsewhere as Middle Eastern.

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emerging economies:

Global-production.com is a source of ... A key source of information and research on emerging economies as locations for global production activities. Countries ranked by indicators. Among other resource the website offers the following country profiles: Argentina, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey. CLICK HERE to access links to profiles. Resource suggested by Gunnar Paulsson, Nova Research, Zuchwil, SZ.

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The rule of law and economic development:

The University of Iowa Center for International Finance and Development, Iowa City, IA, answers the question: What is the Rule of Law? Also, Wikipedia has comments on the subject
The question of there being a relationship between economic development and the rule of law is addressed at to some extent at the website of LexisNexis. The website also offers its explanation of the Rule of Law by stating that it ... is the principle that no one is above the law.

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user contacts:

CLICK HERE for an explanation of the makeup of the .network core user group. The explanation includes mention of those who participate in the mission of The Network by making themselves available to provide services and resources, i.e., user contacts. Resource and service providers are referred to as mission contacts when they are listed online in free-access directories that provide members of the .network target audience access to resource and service providers. Page up to comments about user contacts as location information providers.

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human resources glossaries:

Human Resources may show up in the websites of places seeking economic development on in their community profiles as a location data element. HR and human resources are defined in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary.

The Society of Human Resource Management, which is headquartered in Alexandria, VA and have subsidiary offices in China and India, offers a glossary of HR terms at its website. The SHRM glossary makes reference to The Human Resources Glossary, 3rd Edition, by William R. Tracey. About.com quotes Tracey in offering an answer the question: What is the Definition of Human Resources? Also see About.com's Glossaries of Human Resources Terms.

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magazines offer economic development directories through their websites:

Suggestion: Using either the Google/.network search engine or choosing a link below to look for an economic development contact for a a place of interest, start with a location identity. For example where Economic Development Services is identified as Big Canoe, GA or Jasper, GA as location identities. Learn more about using location identities at where you can also request that a place of interest to you be listed in The Network along with its economic development or other location data supplier. Your request is answered as a free service. Locations throughout the world seeking economic development are listed in The Network as a free service also ....

Area Development has www.corporatelocationdirectory.com which you can go to directly from here or query using the Google/.network search engine.

Business Facilities (site map) doesn't readily show that it has a directory of area and local development representatives but it does focus on US power suppliers and commercial and industrial real estate. Suggestion: Try using the Google/.network search engine to query the website.

Business Xpansion Journal provides a US economic development directory at its website. It lists URLs for development agencies of US states separately. Unlike the the two publications listed above, the website of this publication doesn't accommodate the use of the Google/.network search engine. For what it's worth however a radio button for selecting and searching it economic development directory is available. Suggestion: Either search the Global Registry of Contacts or select an alternative directory listed in this resource archive.

Development magazine annually publishes a Guide to Economic Development Authorities in the US and Canada. The economic development directory becomes a part of the NAIOP Buyers Guide which you can access directly from here or by using the Google/.network search engine. Suggestion: Use the search engine to query for economic development or buyers guide.

Expansion Management offers a unique way for users of its website to search for economic development organizations. For example, you can select an expansion / relocation button on the home page for access to Directory of ED Organizations. The webpage you access allows to the search the Expansion Management economic development directory for listings within the number of miles of your choice of a zip code or province, state or country. Expansion Management is open to search using the Google/.network search engine.

The Leader is published by CoreNet Global which also publishes an annual economic development directory. Although the ... directory is a listing of global economic development offices and contacts ... (source of quote) you can't use the search engine on page 4 of About Enterprise Development to gain access to any classification of CoreNet Global Membership. You may be interested in knowing, however, that The Network added to its Global Registry of Contacts all resource and service provider listings from the last membership directories published by the predecessor associations of CoreNet Global. There is a system for keeping those listings up to date framed around a unique search promise.