networks for finding contacts:

Appendix B of the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary is a source of information about the types of networks listed below. The first type defined, however, is an ally network.

Members of the target audience of The Network use business acquaintances and allies to bounce ideas ideas off of as well as to exchange information. Business decisions makers need networks of resource and service providers. Associations publish directories and buyers guides in support of their dedication to networking. Most also organize events for hobnobbing with contacts. Examples of types business associations range from local chambers of commerce to regional, national, and international organizations with members interested in the following areas of activity:

enterprise and economic development as combined processes

economic development / economic development network

enterprise development / enterprise development network

site location work / site selection network

resource and service provider networks

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business environment ... all of the conditions surrounding a business enterprise that dictate how it operates it its location. The expression may be used as a category of location data. When that's the case, it's likely to be a header for information that promotes the attitudes and programs of a place that make it accommodating for enterprise and economic development.

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enterprise operating entity ... that which makes an enterprise operation a distinct and separate thing. See the resource article titled One-Entity Approach at the website of the Business Owners Toolkit; Total Know-How for Small Business for an indication of how we came to publish this definition of enterprise operating entity. If you visit www.toolkit.com, notice that a business card exchange is available. For those who are resource and service providers engaged in enterprise and economic development, The Network offers something similarsee personal webpage.

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What does "meeting specifications" mean?

Searching for a definition of meeting specifications without the use of additional keywords to help zero in on a relationship to enterprise development projects is likely to return information about event planning. For example, copy and paste the question in the search box at the top of this page to query the Web. Adding just one word, such as engineering, will change search results.

Site location work, commonly referred to as site selection, is an area of activity within enterprise and economic development to which the network of websites you are using is dedicated. The answer to the question within the context of an enterprise development project or site selection project is as follows: Meeting specifications means arriving at point where all wants and needs are obtained or conditions realized or objectives attained as delineate in a statement of particulars covered by a project profile.

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What does a project manager do?

The question is posed at in a resource file titled Project ManagementOverview provided online UK management consultant Simon Wallace. The question is answered using a couple of graphics and written explanation. Add Wallace's information to comments elsewhere about how enterprise developers and site selectors work their projects. Enterprise developers and site selectors are project managers among the user group served by The Network. There are also project managers among its resource and service providers. Wikipedia offers project management information.

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e-business:

... the E stands for Electronic, meaning that the business in online, a dot-com. Wikipedia has a file title Electronic Business. Various sources attribute the creation of the term to an IBM advertising campaignThat effort, though initially derided by rivals when it began in 1997, proved quite successful, by explaining the practical uses of the Internet to IBM's mainstream corporate customers. (quote source). Answers.com has the definition of dot-com.

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enterprise development within a franchise system:

Three Things You Need to Do Before Buying a Franchise is an online resource offered by the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce (Chattanooga, TN). The source of the information, Bruce Krebs, has a record in the Global Registry of Contactssee Searching for Contacts.

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US Government Printing Office:

GPO Access has a Code of Federal Regulations. CFR are rules published in the Federal Register. A link to a guide to government information is in the lower-left corner at the bottom of the CFR page. The guide is handy source of information that's easy to useit's for kids.

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.network economic development marketing file ... CLICK HERE to access the resource.

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site selector database:

The site selection page of the .network glossary has a definition of site selector database, AKA site consultant database. Either way its an economic development marketing tool. Use the link in the paragraph above for access to an economic development marketing resource

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Quote from http://www.naplesnews.com, Advertising: IBM plays up its on-demand computer service, 10/31/02 (online article no longer accessible).

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business development networking:

The following definition of business development networking comes from the .network glossary where a distinction is made between business development as enterprise development and business development as a sales or marketing effort. See the information above about the basics of business development as enterprise development. Also see the networking page in the series about economic development in Economic Development.net.

(business development is) ... contact with a prospect for the purpose of exchanging information in hopes of building a working relationship or adding to one that already exists; a person-to-person effort to exchange information for initiating, organizing or adding to a working relationship with one of the two in the position of prospect, client or customer.

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