WORKFORCE plus 
"On behalf of the WORKFORCE plus Board of Directors and staff, we present our online employment solution. It’s hard to believe but for over 10 years WORKFORCE plus has been dedicated to ensuring that the needs of our local workforce were met. "
- Kimberly Moore, Chief Executive Officer, WORKFORCE plus
The ISC Interactive design team, Plus Interactive, began this project by listening to the needs of the staff at WORKFORCE plus.
Of course WORKFORCE plus wanted a new website that was visually compelling, but the new site had to further their objectives, and mission within our community.
Plus Interactive delivered a website that greatly improves WORKFORCE plus's ability to communicate with the businesses and potential employees that it serves. New job postings are prominently displayed, as well as workshops and educational opportunities.
Users are encouraged to sign-up for newsletters, get in touch with special programs offered for Veterans, or plug-in to the Youth programs through a special site for youth.
Behind all of the "up front" improvements in branding and communication, Plus Interactive was able to deliver a website that is easily maintained by the staff at WORKFORCE plus, ensuring that the website stays current. Healthcare Transparency
"FloridaCompareCare.gov is the Florida website that is proving itself of significant value to patients and potential patients. This very user-friendly site allows visitors to search for a wide range of price and outcome data for all hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in the state."
- Newt Gingrich
Accountability in Healthcare
With consumers demanding more accountability from their health care providers across the nation, a number of states have developed websites as additional sources of information for consumers. Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), was legislatively mandated to provide consumer-friendly health care facility performance data to Florida’s citizens.
ISC operates a very successful solution for AHCA called FloridaCompareCare.gov. FloridaCompareCare is a consumer friendly web site that provides information for every hospital and ambulatory facility in the State of Florida. The FloridaCompareCare site experienced over 1,000,000 hits and over 23,000 visitors in the first three days of implementation and continues to have thousands of visitors each day.
Healthcare Transparency for Consumers
One of the most significant opportunities identified to reduce consumer’s health costs and stimulate provider and payer competition is to establish “transparency” in the health care system. Advocates of transparency believe that finding ways to make cost and quality of health care open and apparent to consumers will allow for a competitive market and help consumers make better choices in their selection of healthcare services. In this way, public performance reporting addresses two complementary objectives: improvement in quality of health care and public accountability. Many states have now undertaken measures to provide more “transparency” in the health care industry. ISC, in partnership with Treo Solutions and 3M Healthcare is at the forefront of providing web-based solutions specifically targeted to both health care professionals and health care consumers.
Performance and Accessibility
Standardized performance metrics and outcome reports are easily accessible to both consumers and providers through a common web interface. ISC’s web solution allows consumers and providers to review specific health care facilities and conditions. This service provides empirical information that demonstrates the effectiveness of facilities for specific procedures.
Visit FloridaHealthFinder.gov Wildfire Response
Prescribed Fire and Wildfire Management
The Fire Management Information System is a complex, distributed system that integrates several components running on a variety of servers.
Smoke Plume Analysis
When a prescribed fire is planned, the Forestry office will enter the location and area for the planned fire. The system generates a smoke plume and displays it on a map of the location. Burners may be asked to delay a burn if the smoke plume model indicates that, based on fuels at the location and current wind and weather conditions, the emissions from the burn will impact smoke sensitive areas.
Technology
- Accesses data server side through web services in a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Transparent applications (Dispatch) deployed through ClickOnce technology
- Application configuration management
- Integrated user authentication (network accounts)
- Error Monitoring, Logging and Reporting
- Multi-tiered Architecture
- Reusable components
- Modern mapping technology
Economic Development
"Our organization was very fortunate to learn about the services of ISC through the existing industry program, First Focus on Local Business. We were pleased to find the expertise necessary to implement a GIS component in our Web site. ISC allowed us to customize the product in order to best serve existing, new and start-up business owners looking to expand facilities, workforce, or products. ISC’s level of
service and professionalism is bar none. They have catapulted our EDC into the modern world of economic development
and put us at the forefront of competition."
- Beth Kirkland, Executive Director, Tallahassee Leon County EDC
Showcasing The Region
In August of 2008, ISC and the Economic Development Council launched an upgraded and re-designed website. The website, http://taledc.com, was designed by ISC’s Interactive Division and features an extensive MapDotNet component.
Geospatial Visualization
The Economic Development Website solution uses MapDotNet to combine your specific geospatial data with Microsoft Virtual Earth, the standard in Internet-based consumer mapping. From your website, users will be able to:
- View your city, county, state, or region in 2D and 3D.
- Toggle between traditional illustrated maps or aerial photography.
- Search for properties by address or owner.
- Visualize property parcels.
- Overlay your geospatial data, such as school zones, land-use zones, population distributions, income distributions, age distributions, recreational trails or any other available data sets.
- Create drill-down reports with specific property information.
- Create location-based mailing lists.
Interactive data mining
Visitors to the Economic Development Council of Tallahassee/Leon County’s website can retrieve a wealth of information from the various interactive maps, including:
- Properties for Sale or Lease
- Locations of Business and Industrial Parks
- Industry Sectors
- Locations of Coporate Headquarters
- Population Demographics
- Age Demographics
- Race Demographics
- Income Demographics
- Household and Housing Demographics
- Educational Demographics
- The Tallahassee/Leon County Enterprise Zone
- Land-Use Zoning
- Urban Services Areas
- Flood Zones
- High School, Middle School, and Elementary School Zones
- Campus and Hospital Locations
All of the features of the EDC website and more can be available to your local government and citizens. Florida PantherNet
Plus Interactive partnered with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to deliver the updated Official Florida Panther Website.
The new website delivers many new web 2.0 features such as article sharing, videos, blogs and a mobile enabled website.
The new website was designed to not only have an updated and modern feel to the website, but to be easy to maintain. In fact, field biolgist are able to quickly update notes and new images from the field. Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite
In today's competitive global market, businesses need technology that cost-effectively enables flexibility and adds value to their organization.
Business Productivity Online Standard Suite delivers hosted communication and collaboration tools that feature:
- High availability
- Comprehensive security
- Simplified IT management
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