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          Joel Radtke   Joel Radtke 
Manager of Web-based Communication
1 Descombes Drive
Broomfield, CO 80020
303-438-6327
jradtke@broomfield.org
 
  www.broomfield.org        
The City and County of Broomfield Web site has been serving residents of Broomfield, and the Internet community, since 1998. The Web site is a service of the City and County Manager’s Office. The site provides information from departments and divisions at the city and county that will help expedite finding what you need from your local government.

The Web site has more than 12,000 pages, images and other downloadable documents on it. The information is updated directly from members of each department or division to ensure that the most accurate information is always on the Web site. When an emergency occurs, like the blizzard of 2006, our home page has the urgent information that comes directly from our Emergency Operations Center to keep residents up-to-date.

We are always adding more interactive programs on the Web. Among the programs we have now are, paying your Broomfield utility bill or property taxes online, searching the library card catalog and renewing library books, applying for a posted job online, searching Broomfield property records including seeing aerial views of the property and signing up for recreation classes. There is also an interactive parks map that shows location, amenities, photographs and information on how to reserve park shelters.

On demand video pageSince 2006 we have been expanding our video presence on the Web site including a 24/7 live stream of our KCCB Cable Channel 8 broadcast. Along with that we began archiving our council meetings and offering them on demand on the Web. We now have nearly 100 council meeting and concept review meeting videos on the Web site. In 2009 we released more than 150 on demand videos of locally produced shows dating back to 2003. We also offer embedded videos on site-specific pages, e.g., we have a police canine video on our police K-9 Unit page.

Through the years we have been always looking for more ways to reach our audience. In 2003 we began offering subscriber email for our viewers who wanted to receive council meeting summaries. Since then we have added subscriber email for a monthly recreation newsletter, auditorium event schedules and three library newsletters geared for different patron age groups. In 2009 we are creating RSS feeds for our What's News in Broomfield news briefs, recreation and auditorium events and library news.

As our audience changes how they get their information, we have gone outside of the Web site to add additional outlets for them. Today we have pages on the social networks of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, (sometimes referred to as Web 2.0). We are already monitoring developments in Web 3.0, which right now seems to be going in a direction of a three-dimensional presence on the Web.

We continue to strive to make the Web site faster and easier to navigate. After our most recent Web site redesign and new navigation system, Broomfield's Web site was awarded the top national Meritorious Award from the National Association of County Information Officers (NACIO) in 2007 for design, navigation and strong content.

NACIO Photography AwardOur photographs on the Web site are also award winners as a photojournalist’s piece by Joel Radtke on the installation, dedication and visitation of the Broomfield 9-11 Memorial took Best in Class national honors for photography in the NACIO awards.