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If
you have a great website that you would like to share with other ICCA
members please email it to Sara Mentzer at smentzer@cedarrapids.org.
September 2005 SETA
(Office of Social & Economic Trend Analysis) at Iowa State University.
www.seta.iastate.edu
is a great resources for a web site. Their
mission and a brief description of their services is explained on their
home page (see below). This is great to compare your community/county
through the years or with other/neighboring communities. Takes a while to
get your bearings - it has a lot of information! Mission: We collect, analyze, interpret and disseminate information on social, economic, and demographic trends in support of community and regional analysis with emphasis on Iowa. Our expertise includes data based in: Agriculture, Employment and Income, Population, Public Services, and Retail Trade information. The most popular sets of detailed statistics have been setup as pre-defined data sets or create your own custom queries and graphs. Need help navigating our web site? Please use our Web Site Navigation Guide or contact one of our experts.
May, 2005 Microsoft Office Assistance Center hosts how-to articles, tips, columns, and quizzes that help you get work done using Office programs. You can find templates for an assortment of calendars, stationary, planners, cards and more! There are lessons on how to build a web page using Microsoft FrontPage. There is even a link that takes you to a page that will show you how to add voting buttons in your e-mails or sounds to you slide shows. Not to mention a great business clipart section and downloads to help with you publications. You can subscribe for a Microsoft Office Newsletter and ask questions from other users. This site truly has something for everyone, please take some time to check it out. You won't be sorry you did! http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/default.aspx Brenda Levitt April, 2005
A very
helpful web site is www.townhunter.com. This
site is geared toward people that are relocating and would like
to compare city data. However, this feature is also great
for side-by-side comparison of your community with up to six
other communities that are in their database. You can compare such
things as cost of living, crime, housing costs, and census
information. This great for communities the size of ours
(Marshalltown) and other smaller communities that may not be
listed in other well-known of living analysis.
Amy Mills November, 2005 Governing magazine is not only a rich resource for the state and local government community, but it also provides a gateway to other useful internet resources. GovLinks provides categorized, frequently updated links to hundreds of websites chosen for special relevance. You can check it out at governing.com/govlinks/glinks.htm. The Daily Digit presents stats that are useful, illuminating or just plain interesting at governing.com/digit.htm. Joy Nicholson October, 2004 Check out this site for free software and useful meeting information http://www.meetingwizard.org. Everything regarding holding a meeting from taking minutes, effective meeting- tips, to scheduling and chairing a meeting. E-mailed invitations will not even be sent with a typo in them! I have not used this software yet but have found the information on meetings useful and plan to give the meeting scheduler a try. A lot of the questions I had about this program are answered below: To organize a meeting or event, it might seem that it's easy to simply send an email message. But more often than not, you need to know when people are available. For example, if you're inviting six people, you need to wait for six separate responses, manually collate them, and hope you've got a match, then confirm with all the details. If you don't get a match, you have to start all over again. Moreover, there's just too much room for confusion and error in this process. Outlook Calendar has a scheduling feature but it's based on the sharing of common calendars. The scheduling function is only accessible by users connected to that particular server. Moreover, there are many scheduling features that Outlook doesn't have that include: proposing multiple times, options to automatically confirm available times, and many more. We recommend you use whatever calendaring tool you want: Outloook Calendar, Lotus Notes, Palm, etc., but use MeetingWizard to schedule all of your meetings. A major advantage of MeetingWizard is that it is web-based and always available through a browser and whatever email service you use. It requires no downloads and no I.T. support and you always have access to the latest version. I hope you enjoy this website as much as I have. Brenda Levitt July, 2004
Sharing this benefit with you
once again, the "Linking Assistants" is just one of the
benefits of belonging to ICCA.
Some of
your Chambers and Economic Developments may already use this, but use
it as you may. Your community is able to collect data and have
it compared with other cities, whether metro or micro, for cost of
living expenses. I happen to coordinate this data collection in
our Burlington/West Burlington office each quarter, and since we are
in the third quarter this year and the deadline is coming soon to get
information in, this website is fresh in mind.
For a
fee, you are able to participate in this quarterly collection, and I
believe our chamber and economic development office have benefited
from this information. I have used this information to help
decisions on relocation into our community and it has also been used
in some ED prospects as well. The site is the ACCRA website at www.coli.org.
Give it a try if you haven't already! I
Stephanie
Stephanie Standard
Administrative Assistant for Economic
Development
Grow Greater
Burlington, Inc.
RiverPark Place, 610 N. 4th St., Ste. 200
Burlington, IA 52601
Direct Dial----319.208.0042
319.752.6365----Fax 319.752.6454
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