Hillsboro Assessment Blog: Community visibility

How do I look? This is a question that is asked time and time again. For businesses, schools, and a number of other organizations, this is the most important question of all. Your web presence is just as important as being open during your posted hours of operation. Since I began this project, I have looked around at a number of communities that would be considered to comparable to Hillsboro, and what I found was that many of them had one central website geared towards providing information about the city or community.Usually they were there to promote tourism for that particular town, city or region. I noticed that many of the city departments or organizations such as the chamber of commerce, school district, and the city all have websites, but they are not in one central location. They don’t seem to be interconnected at all, and there is a limited amount of information about the vibrancy of the community. I know that Hillsboro prides itself on having a large number of historic structures in the city, yet its not out there for the web or the world to see. To improve their web visibility, they should create a website that provides everything you want to know about Hillsboro in one place. For example the site could be named visithillsboro.com which could serve as the main site for the community. I have attached some sample sites from other cities that have similar sites.