Founded 1998

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Virtual Town Hall LLC

• Founded 1998
• Over 200 municipal clients
• 13 states Maine to Florida to California
• Full service web design, development and
• application services.

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Virtual Town Hall Website

• We design your website to your specifications

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Virtual Town Hall Website

• We design your website to your specifications
• Site design is fixed throughout the site for
  branding and ease of navigation

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Virtual Town Hall Website

• We design your website to your specifications
• Site design is fixed throughout the site for
  branding and ease of navigation
• We build web pages based on content provided by
  you

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Create a custom website using the VTH content
management system. Standard development includes
the following

• Department Pages (home page, staff listing, FAQs,
  mission statement, fees, downloadable forms and
  miscellaneous pages)
• Town Board (home page, bio for each member,
  postable agendas minutes folders, individual
  minutes pages posted for up to 2 years
• Boards Commissions (home page for each board
  with description of duties responsibilities,
  members terms of office, and email postable
  agendas minutes folders for each).
• Minutes for up to 5 boards for up to 2 years

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Create a custom website using the VTH content
management system. Standard development includes
the following

• One Online Citizen Comment form with archiving
• One Service Request form with archiving
• One Online Board Volunteer Application form with
  archiving
• Town Newsletters in PDF format
• Town Ordinances
• Zoning Ordinances
• Recreation Rules Programs
• Two photo slide shows or "Powerpoint-like" web
  presentations with up to 20 total pages
• Emergency Management Plan with postable emergency
  banner on home page

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Create a custom website using the VTH content
management system. Standard development includes
the following

• Additional development is available and would be
  charged at a rate of 125 per hour. The project
  expense can be estimated upon review of the scope
  of the project and the specific files and formats
  involved
• Content should be provided in electronic format
  (Word, Excel, JPG, PDF) via email to
  content_at_virtualtownhall.net
• Content should be provided within the next 2 3
  weeks.

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Virtual Town Hall Website

• We design your website to your specifications
• Site design is fixed throughout the site for
  branding and ease of navigation
• We build web pages based on content provided by
  you
• We train you on how to manage your own content

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Content Types

• Static Content web pages that will
  occasionally be edited, such as staff members,
  fees or procedures descriptions
• Dynamic Content web pages that are constantly
  being created, but seldom, if ever, edited
  council agendas, planning board minutes

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Managing Static Content
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Managing Dynamic Content

• Create a new email message
• Type a newsworthy headline into the subject
• Address it to the proper web page email address
• Copy text from your Word document
• Paste it into the body of the email
• Send it to your website!
• DONE

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Content

• Send to content_at_virtualtownhall.net with
  attached files
• Content formats
• Word documents
• Excel spreadsheets
• Acrobat PDF files
• JPG or GIF image files

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Content Development

• We will build your content/web pages.
• You must provide the content!

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Content Development

• Your web pages become your checklist!

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Content

• Contact information
• Candid photo of department staff
• Mission statement/service description
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Fees
• Policies Procedures
• Downloadable forms

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Deadline

• November 21 for content
• if we are to meet our goal of
• January 1 live date!
• January 1
• Final Deadline for content

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If the area is blank content is still missing
If the link is not active the content is still
missing
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e-Government A Value Proposition

• Todays best practices
• Improve Customer Service
• Improve Citizen Communication
• Empower Citizens
• Improve Staff Productivity