We recently partnered with the Greene County Partnership of Greeneville, Tennessee to redesign their economic development website.

We worked with the Partnership to give them a website that was feature-rich and easy-to-use, and that would effectively market Greene County, Tennessee to site selectors and business consultants.

The website’s new features include:

• A revamped homepage that emphasizes Greene County’s strategic location, available sites and buildings, and quality of life.
• Detailed maps showing the location of roads, rail, airports, industrial parks and other pertinent county information
• Expanded information about demographics and workforce, operating costs, business incentives, transportation and infrastructure, utilities and workforce development.
• Robust commercial real estate listing and mapping system
• Integrated content management system that allows Partnership staff to handle all site updates—including additions to the real estate system—in-house

“We’re committed to helping local businesses thrive and creating jobs in our community. This new website is a step in that direction. Rick Whittington Consulting did a great job articulating our vision. Their knowledge of how economic development organizations work made them a partner, not just a vendor,” said Greene County Partnership’s CEO Tom Ferguson.

Visit the website at GrowInGreene.com.

Do you work for an economic development organization? If you’d like to learn more about our economic development website design work, then visit EconDevWebsites.com to read case studies and download our firm profile.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the website redesign for Timmons Group, an engineering and technology consulting firm that provides civil engineering, environmental, GIS/geospatial technology, landscape architecture and surveying services. Timmons Group has been recognized by Engineering News Record as one of the Top 500 Design Firms in the country. Read the rest of this entry »

We’re thrilled to announce that Shannon Sullivan has joined our team as a Content Specialist.  Shannon is an incredibly talented writer who’s already making an impact after 2 short days on the job.

Before joining us, Shannon was the Director of Internet Marketing at Key Web Concepts.  She earned her B.A. degree in English (with honors) from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Some other fun facts about Shannon:

• She’s a “fashionista.”  Her minor at VCU was in Fashion Merchandising.
• She’s part Aussie.  Shannon has dual citizenship for the U.S. and Australia.
• She likes flying into Aukland Airport in New Zealand. It’s a family tradition to take a photo on the bridge over a central water feature when she travels there.
• Her fiancé Matt is a web designer, and she’s looking forward to getting married in March.

Shannon, we’re glad you’re here!

We’re happy to announce the website redesign for Filtrona Porous Technologies, a global B2B company that designs and manufactures custom fluid-handling components. These components can be found in everyday products, including printer cartridges, wound care dressings, writing instruments, make-up applicators and so much more. Read the rest of this entry »

The Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development (TJPED) website, which we launched in 2010, recently received an Honorable Mention for Excellence in Economic Development Award in the category of General Purpose Website for communities with populations of 200,000 – 500,000.

The honor was presented at the International Economic Development Council’s annual meeting and is our second IEDC award for a client.

Read more about this honor on our economic development website.

We’re happy to announce the launch of a website for our economic development and tourism practice, www.EconDevWebsites.com.

After three years and eight economic development clients, we decided to create a special website to showcase these projects and explain our capabilities that are suited for economic development website design.

The website was launched before the 2011 International Economic Development Council (IEDC) Annual Conference.

The site itself has some newer technology that we’ve been working on. It’s built on the same content management system we build client projects on, and the website automatically resizes itself to fit multiple mobile device formats, eliminating the need for a separate mobile version.

See the website at www.EconDevWebsites.com.