Virtual Town Hall LLC
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Founded 1998
• Over 200 municipal clients
• 13 states – Maine to Florida to California
• Full service web design, development and
application services.
Virtual Town Hall Website
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We design your website to your specifications
Virtual Town Hall Website
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We design your website to your specifications
Site design is fixed throughout the site for
branding and ease of navigation
Virtual Town Hall Website
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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
Create a custom website using the VTH content
management system. Standard development
includes the following:
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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
Create a custom website using the VTH content
management system. Standard development
includes the following:
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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
Create a custom website using the VTH content
management system. Standard development
includes the following:
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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
[email protected]
Content should be provided within the next 2 – 3
weeks.
Virtual Town Hall Website
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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
Content Types
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“Static Content” – web pages that will
occasionally be edited, such as staff members,
fees or procedures descriptions
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“Dynamic Content” – web pages that are
constantly being created, but seldom, if ever,
edited; council agendas, planning board minutes
Managing Static Content
Managing Dynamic Content
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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
Content
Send to: [email protected] 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!
Content Development
Your web pages become your checklist!
Content
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Contact information
Candid photo of department staff
Mission statement/service description
Frequently Asked Questions
Fees
Policies & Procedures
Downloadable forms
Deadline
November 21 for content
if we are to meet our goal of
January 1 live date!
January 1
Final Deadline for content
If the area is blank content is still missing
If the link is not active the content is still
missing
e-Government: A Value Proposition
Today’s “best practices”
• Improve Customer Service
• Improve Citizen Communication
• Empower Citizens
• Improve Staff Productivity