December 1, 1997

Temporary Web sites liven up trade shows, events

The Web is a natural for event promotion.

Even though the Web is a real-time, interactive, one-to-one medium, we˜re far more used to seeing it used, especially by businesses, in a pretty conservative and unimaginative way.
It˜s not that the information within a Web site is always boring or static — creators of successful Web sites have certainly learned that lesson — but the character of a typical business Web site itself is, well, rather buttoned-down.
Web sites are being used primarily to leverage basic corporate information, occasionally spiced with press releases or new-product announcements. There˜s nothing wrong with this approach…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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