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One news release on this page supports the answer to the question of who first organized a location information brokerage online introduced as American Community Network. The news release was the last we heard about Marc Bailey who approached Bob Glover in the late 1990s about a working relationship between ACN and Economic Development Services.

EDS created its network of websites dedicated to enterprise and economic development in 1996. The Network was introduced as a nonpartisan, free-access, online information service. It remains as such today! It was created as a part the non-commercial side of the Internet. EDS did not affiliate with ACN nor any other location information brokerage.

One website of The Network, Site Location Assistance, offered free-services similar to those of Plant Site Locators. Arguably either PSL or Conway Data location data brokerages but their focus was on real estate. Conway Data operated for years in conjunction with association management services for so called corporate real estate executives.

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Dunwoody, GA -- (September 15, 2003) - bizsitesDATA replaces ACNOdyssey today, providing a completely re-engineered knowledge tool designed for anyone involved in corporate site selection. Under the new ownership of FieldMedia, Inc., significant resources were invested in bizsitesDATA ...

According to Doug Field, President of FieldMedia, bizsitesDATA provides the most effective and efficient tool for preliminary site selection. Those involved in the site selection process can easily identify communities nationwide that meet their specific criteria. Only bizsitesDATA provides a comprehensive tool for a site selection team to develop their preliminary list. The amount of accessible information is an incredible resource for the business community. There simply isn't a comparable tool.

bizsitesData's depth of information and ease of use prompted the publisher of Plants Sites & Parks (PS&P) magazine and Bizsites.com to form a strategic partnership, giving both name and support to this revitalized effort. Most of the inquiries we receive from our readers and website visitors are requests for reliable data. We know from our own editorial research how valuable this information is, and we are happy to partner with a company that has made a commitment to collecting, organizing and presenting the best data, so that corporate site seekers and their consultants can make an informed decision, states Len Scaffidi, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Plants Sites & Parks magazine and Bizsites.com.

Together, bizsitesDATA and PS&P/Bizsites.com form the foundation for comprehensive research to assist the site team, and a way for the economic development community to present local distinctions and advantages ...

About FieldMedia, Inc. [ http://www.fieldmedia.com/index.htm ]

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News release provided by Rich Lapin as a follow up to FieldMedia, Inc. acquires ACN.net (April 7, 2003). At the time Lapin provided the news releases he was a member of the staff of bizsitesDATA.com. The following quotes are from the earlier new release:

... (American Community Network) founder, Marc Bailey, has joined (FieldMedia, Inc.) ... as our Vice President of Product Development and Planning ...

Having been away from the (economic development) business for some time, I've had time to reflect on customer needs and to re-focus on a tool that was initially ahead of its time and is now right in the mainstream of solutions for (economic developers). What strikes me as a constant is that (economic developers) and site selectors are finding it even more essential to harness technology to solve basic problems in an era where budgets are reduced and expectations remain high. (Marc Bailey)

A search online for bizsitesDATA in 2007 found http://servicecenter.snm.org which indicated no website available. A webfile titled Guide Data Points was found stating that ... (the website provided) consistent data on many places ... compiled from many independently published sources rather than the local area representatives who are promoting investment ... includes sources which openly publish the data for free, such as government statistics, plus other sources such as commercial databases or research providers with related fees and usage restrictions. This approach makes it possible to search across a large database for areas which match specific criteria, even if data elements for some areas may be inaccurate or potentially misleading from a perspective based on greater local market knowledge or more experience at the data query, screening, and analysis process for projects ... (source of the quote)

The quote above makes the same point as the definition of location information broker in the .network glossary, i.e. what they supply for a fee may be available for free from originating sources. This tells site selectors that they have the choice of going directly to the sources. That means searching for contacts (see the .network promise/Search for a Contact).

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