IN THIS ISSUE... Recent Enhancement Future Enhancements Printable Brochure Fields Critical Welcome Village of Hobart More Demographics Available FEATURED LOIS PARTNERS Was LOIS succesful in helping your community land a project? yes no View Results Free poll from Free Website Polls GO TO OUR Q&A SECTION TO LEARN MORE ABOUT LOIS Tip #1: Property & Area Descriptions To force the Property and Area Description to appear in the Printable Brochure, simply copy and paste the content from the first textbox to the second one located in your Overview admin screen. The 2nd box will not appear until after you have created a new building or site and clicked on Submit. The 2nd box will appear at the bottom of the Overview page. Tip #2: More Lease Options Looking for more lease options? LOIS recently added "negotiable" to the list of choices. Tip #3: Sort by Active Column Trying to sort by the Active column? With this new feature, you can sort any list of buildings or sites by the Active column in your admin screen. KEEPING YOU IN THE LOOP ON LOIS SUMMER/FALL 2007 Dear Reader, September is right around the corner which means it will be time again for the LOIS Advisory Council to convene. The next meeting will be in mid September in Kansas City. One guest is allowed to attend. If you are an economic developer and are interested in joining me, please let me know. Meanwhile, if you have any suggestions for improvements or questions, please contact me before September 21st. I will gladly pass on any suggestions you may have for improving the system. But first, read about LOIS' current enhancements below! Sharon Seffrood Recent Enhancement New Google Earth Map LOIS has completed phase 1 of a 2-step upgrade which allows you to view properties as pinpoints on a map. Google Earth is being used as the model, which can display up to 50 properties at a time. To view the Google Earth model, click on the Buildings tab in LOIS. Then click on the quick filter link for over 300,000 square feet. This will limit the number to just under 50 buildings. Select a building by clicking on the checkbox next to it. Then click on the blue Map Properties button. Say yes to the security question. You should see a Google Earth map similar to the screenshot in this article. Coming soon will be phase 2, which will allow visitors to drill down to a more detailed level. Future Enhancements To Be Completed Modify Date Filter - This new feature will color- code listings in the administration screen, alerting users that their listings are becoming outdated. Completion has been set for 9/30/07. Excel Import Feature - Users (administrators) will be able to import data from Excel into LOIS. A drag- and- drop feature will allow you to match fields in Excel with fields in LOIS. A completion date has been set for 12/31/07. Document Center - An area for attachments will be set up in each main admin screen, which will allow you to attach certain documents (up to 3MB) such as PDFs (realtor brochures), Excel files and Word documents. A completion date has been set for 11/30/07. Required fields - The LOIS Advisory Council has not yet defined the required fields for the building and sites Printable Brochure. Therefore, a completion date is to be determined. Image Section Map - LOIS will soon be adding a new map option in all sections which will essentially place a map in the 4th image position. Completion is set for 12/31/07. Web Trends Report - LOIS will be contracting with a 3rd party to build a component to display the number of visits and hits that each administrator's link registers. This feature will be built into each administrator's view. A completion date is yet to be determined, based on signing an agreement with Web Trends. Password Option - As a user, you will eventually be able to change your own password. This is set to be completed by 12/31/07. Screen Resolution - LOIS will be reset to fit inside an 800 x 600 window. This new feature will also include the ability for you to customize your view by changing the colors of the tabs across the top of your screen. This will be completed by 12/31/07. Streaming Video - New users will be able to receive LOIS training online. This enhancement just recently became available. Printable Brochure Fields Critical Why Listings Aren't Making "The Cut" Frequently, site selectors will contact Forward Wisconsin to conduct confidential searches. LOIS is typically our first stop. Just like any user, we conduct searches for buildings and sites using the Advanced Search feature. From there, we generate a list of PDF's using the My Properties feature. Then we check each listing to make sure that a photo has been included and that certain fields have been populated with data. The fields of main concern to us are the property and area description, building or site details such as square footage, building type, transportation and utility information. Most importantly is the contact info. We also prefer to provide site selectors with listings that have photos associated with them. We look for good and credible information. If these basic fields are not filled out, we do not include those listings in the search results list. Welcome Village of Hobart New LOIS Administrator Forward Wisconsin would like to welcome one of its newest LOIS administrators, the Village of Hobart. Hobart is located in northeast Wisconsin which borders the west side of Green Bay. State Highways 29, 54, 172 and Packerland Drive are the main transportation routes running through Hobart. Just south of the airport is the Southeast Industrial Park. The Hobart Business Park is located in northern Hobart just south of S.T.H. 29. Visit Their Web Page! More Demographics Available Visit ESRI Online Did you know that LOIS can incorporate any report you purchase from ESRI Business Analyst Online into your profile? See link below... Visit ESRI's Business Analyst Web Site & Enter as a Guest FEATURED LOIS SITES ESRI Business Analyst Online Kewaunee County Economic Development Corporation Sauk County Development Corporation Village of Hobart Contact Information Sharon Seffrood Web Marketing Specialist Forward Wisconsin email: sseffrood@commerce.state.wi.us phone: (608) 261-2501 web: http://www.forwardwi.com

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