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Progressive Leadership“Engaging your Community with Engaging your Community with
Engaging Your Citizens Through Engaging Your Citizens Through
Your WebsiteYour Website
“Engaging your Community with Engaging your Community with
Effective Communications”Effective Communications”
Why do you even want tobother having a website?
–It’s a lot of work
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–It’s a lot of work
–It costs money
–Somebody has to maintain it
• Again, Why have a website?
– Provide information to your citizens
– Bring Government to the citizens –
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– Bring Government to the citizens –Make it more convenient/efficient
Technology is a force
multiplier, it allows an
organization to do more with
less.
• How Important is the design of the website?
• How do you determine what goes onto the site?
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onto the site?
• How do you determine if you have a successful website? Are you getting your message across?
• How Important is the design of the Website?
–The website must be user friendly
–It must have eye appeal
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–It must have eye appeal
–It must have what the citizens are
wanting from the local government
in the way of information
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• How do you determine what goes onto the Website?
–Very simple – you ask the citizens,
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–Very simple – you ask the citizens,
they will tell you what they are
looking for.
• How do you determine if you have a successful Website?
– By the number of people going to your site
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site– An indirect method that you can see if
you have a successful site is when it goes down, see how many complaints you get from citizens about how long it will be down!
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• You are only limited by your imagination on how you use your website.
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• Features that Liberty County has on its Site:– Links to other County Sites
– Business Directory
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– Business Directory
– Information on our Community
– Local Government Information
– E-Services
– Calendars
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Why do you even want to bother Why do you even want to bother having a website?having a website?
• It’s a force multiplier – it informs your citizens of the happenings in the county
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citizens of the happenings in the county
• Citizens have access to information from anywhere of their choosing
Why do you even want to bother Why do you even want to bother having a website?having a website?
• Allows government to be more accessible to the citizens
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accessible to the citizens
Information to the People is Power Information to the People is Power
to the People!to the People!
Bob Sprinkel
Assistant County Administrator
Liberty County Georgia
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Liberty County Georgia
912-876-2164