Community websites boost economic vitality.
Behind every economy lies a community and every community needs an online location to increase exposure and visibility, share information, and create a space for networking.
Smart Nuts Technology specializes in community websites that allow multiple contributors/users to add information and post to applications such as an event calendar, classified ads, and forum; keeping website content up to date.
Our sites are scalable, using a django python based platform, which allows data to be accessed more quickly and efficiently than standard php based systems. Data is easily displayed with high-level interactivity and information linking.
Smart Nuts Technology has a variety of community based packages ideal for small towns or larger centers, chambers of commerce, visitor centers, or virtual communities.
Choose from a package below or have us create a custom website to suit your needs.
Shop Local Campaign package:
This website model is a package offered to local business associations that provide groups of businesses the ability to combine advertising dollars and include in their advertising campaigns a website focused on “shopping local”. The website features offered in this package are:
- Directory structure allowing creation of Categories and Sector pages.
- Shop by Category where users can view business listing directories.
- Profile Pages for each business would be an additional way to find a business by a different navigation tab where each business would have a profile page, listed in alphabetical order.
- Action Tracker - allowing communities to create community goals and education to support a shop local campaign as well as the environment.
Comprehensive Community Website package:
Ideal for larger communities, visitor centres and virtual communities, this model has all the bells and whistles of a community website, including:
- Directory structure allowing creation of Categories and Sector pages.
- Business Directory
- Columnists/Contributor application
- Events
Classified Ads
- Banner Management and more.
Recommended Resources:
CIEL - Building Vital & Entrepreneurial Communities
The Centre for Innovative and Entrepreneurial
Leadership (CIEL) strengthens communities by helping them become more
business-friendly, more culturally vibrant, and more sustainable. CIEL services include assessing community health, improving quality of life, leadership, business vitality and sustainability.
The Business Vitality Initiative (BVI) measures
business-friendliness in a community and helps the community focus
their limited time and energy to make its own decisions about how to
improve. The BVI has helped improve the business friendliness and
competitiveness of dozens of communities in Canada and Australia. For
more info about CIEL's BVI visit their website: www.theciel.com
Simple ways to stimulate your local economy - Inspire Community & Inspire Enterprise
Paul Edney, founder of Inspire Community and Inspire Enterprise, advocates for small actions making a BIG impact. Visit inspirecommunity.org for community wide programs and inspireenterprise.com for programs and actions that inspire people at work.
"Our mission is to inspire (you and your) Community (to change the world)"-Paul Edney