WebTools for Analyzing Emerging Trends

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Web-Tools for Analyzing Emerging Trends
Program by Charlie French
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Socioeconomic Analysis Why do it?

• Identify emerging societal environmental trends
  
  
• Conduct Needs Assessment for targeting programs
• Provides useful info for marketing our programs
• Provides background about our audience(s)
• Vital source of business/economic development
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• Impact Evaluation are we doing any good?
• Supplements grant applications/funding requests

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Searching for Information

• Lycos Good for finding multimedia material
• Ask Jeeves Helps refine your search
• Google Good for government material
• Infoseek Good for business information

• Alta Vista Translates Webpages
• Hot Bot Offers the most search opts
• Netscape Good for Hard research
• Excite Focuses on Consumers
• AOL Good source of Office/Business info

Yahoo Contains lots of media resources
Activity Choose any program area and use the
various search engines to find information
pertaining to emerging trends?
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What Kind of Data is on the Web?

• General Population Trends
• Business and Economic Development
• Agriculture/Rural America
• Natural Resources Information
• Youth and Family Issues
• Health and Nutrition

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General Demographic Data
http//www.census.gov The Bureau of the Census
site is a good starting point for research requi
ring facts and figures. www.bea.gov This site p
rovides data at the regional, national, and
international levels. http//factfinder.censu
s.gov/ General data on housing, demographics,
business...
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Business and Economic Data
http//www.bls.gov Bureau of Labor Statistics
contains National data on employment and income.
http//www.visitnh.gov/ Maintains statistics
pertaining to NH tourism industry.
http//www.nhes.state.nh.us/elmi/index.html Lo
ok here for Labor Market information for New
Hampshire. http//www.buzzgate.org/ Serves
as a clearinghouse for NH business information,
data, and tools.
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Ag, Forestry, Water Resources Data
http//www.usda.gov/nass The US Department of
Agriculture has national/state/local data
from1997 Census of Agriculture.
http//www.srsfia.usfs.msstate.edu/ewman.htm Ea
stern Forest Inventory Database and Manual.
http//www.uwsp.edu/geo/internet/physical_geog
_resources.html Comprehensive clearinghouse for
data/information on soils, hydrology, climate,
plants/animals, landform, ecoregions, etc.
www.usgs.gov The USGS maintains data links and
resources pertaining to landform, biological
resources water resources. http//www.epa.g
ov/waters/enviromapper/ Enviromapper is an
EPA site that allows users to interactively map
information pertaining to water bodies in the
U.S. http//www.granit.sr.unh.edu/ Contains NH
natural resource info
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Children Youth and Family Data
http//www.ed.gov/topics/topicsTier2.jsp?topResea
rch26StatstypeTsubtopStatistics This site
contains national and state-level data on
education and test scores. http//www.acf.dhhs.
gov/ This site provides links to data on
children, youth, and families.
http//www.childrennh.org This site has livin
g-wage information for New Hampshire.
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Health and Nutrition Data
http//www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm National a
nd state level health statistics (including
disease risk factors, causes of death, health
promotion strategies, etc.). http//www.ahcpr.g
ov/data/ National Health Care data from the
Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality.
www.nhhealthdata.org This website is an inve
ntory of health data that is available to New
Hampshire communities.
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Maps and Graphics
http//factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsS
ervlet Site enables you to build national, state
county census data maps http//plue.sedac.cie
sin.org/plue/ddviewer/ The Demographic Data
Viewer enables you to make county-level maps of
various socioeconomic variables (1990 data).
http//www.granit.sr.unh.edu/ This on-line datab
ase enables you to build maps of New Hamsphire
natural resource features.
http//terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com This sit
e enables you to zoom in on aerial photos of most
areas (1996 photos). http//mapping.usgs.gov/
partners/viewonline.html USGS maintains links to
other on-line mapping resources.
http//www.geographynetwork.com/index.html Has l
inks to other on-line mapping engines.
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Surveys and Needs Assessments
http//communitydevelopment.uiuc.edu The Univers
ity of Illinois Laboratory for Community and
Economic Development has a database of sample
surveys/needs assessments as well as an an
on-line survey-builder. http//ctb.ku.edu/too
ls/en/chapter_1003.htm Provides information a
variety of community needs assessment tools.
http//www.unh.edu/survey-center/ Though the UN
H survey Center typically charges a fee for
survey work, Dr. Andy Smith often provides free
sample surveys and technical assistance.
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Profile Builders
http//www.nhes.state.nh.us/elmi/communpro.htm
Shows community information and data for all NH
towns/cities
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Other Interactive Tools on the Web
www.communitydevelopment.uiuc.edu/cdo/ On-line
Strategic Planning for Communities.
www.communitydevelopment.uiuc.edu/commsurvey/ Bu
siness Retention and Expansion Survey.
www.communitydevelopment.uiuc.edu/tourism/tc_ind
ex.html Tourism Capacity Assessment.
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Build your Own Profile

• Clear and Concise
• Combine numbers with text and graphics
• Maps add to Overall Impact
• Dont try to put too much in it