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Adams, Nebraska--Rainbow Video Productions is pleased to announce the release of Access Omaha, a CD-ROM filled with information about life, work, recreation, entertainment and business in Nebraska's largest city. Access Omaha contains more than 1200 photographs, 45 video clips, numerous audio files, hundreds of text files and charts. With a range of information from spectator sports to convention planning, the business climate of Nebraska to the state's excellence in education, Access Omaha offers an attractive, simple, interactive method of getting information about the city and its surrounding area. Rainbow Video Productions, working with the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, Metro Community College, and Tesseract Information Systems, developed Access Omaha in a little more than nine months. Rainbow Video was responsible for content development and flow, programming, audio and video production, and the graphics for Access Omaha. "Rainbow is pleased to have a part in maintaining Omaha's leadership in the use of technology for the promotion of the city and its economic development " said Phil Troupe, the company's General Manager. For more information about Access Omaha or if you're interested in our authoring capabilities, feel free to e-mail, write or call. We'd be glad to hear from you.
Access Omaha Takes Grand Award The Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce's new CD-ROM Access Omaha has received a Grand Award by the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, according to Vicki Krecek, vice president, Communications. The Grand Award is the highest honor given by ACCE in the Awards for Communications Excellence program and is given at the discretion of the judges. The award was in the "electronic communications" category. Access Omaha was produced by the Chamber and Rainbow Video Productions of Adams, Nebraska, as a tool to recruit highly skilled workers to the Omaha area and to sell Omaha as a location for business, people, and conventions. The Chamber was joined by a number of sponsors in funding the project. All sponsors intend to use the CD-ROM for recruiting employees and companies to Omaha. Major sponsors of the CD-ROM include: Target Omaha, the Greater Omaha Convention and Visitors Bureau, First Data Card Services Group, First National Bank of Omaha, Pacific Realty Group, Union Pacific Railroad, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Valmont Industries, Applied Communications, Inc., ConAgra, Inc., N.P. Dodge Real Estate, Guarantee Life Insurance Co., Metropolitan Community College, Mutual of Omaha Companies, Prairie Systems, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The award was presented to the Omaha Chamber of Commerce at the group's annual conference in San Jose, California. |
The
CD-ROM opens with an invitation by chamber president, Bob Bell, to
become better acquainted with the city by taking a short time to look
around, to follow their specific interests. It then branches to four
main selections: Living in Omaha, Doing Business in Omaha,
Conventions and Tourism and the Access Pages (advertising). In Living
in Omaha, the user can select from categories such as the arts,
sports and recreation, education, living in Omaha and quality of
life. Within these categories, users will find movies, slide/audio
shows, text/picture books and activities on virtually every subject
relating to life in Omaha. The most recent addition to the CD-ROM
includes several 360 degree panoramic views taken around Omaha. Want
to know what type of home you can construct for $250,000 in Omaha?
There are numerous examples. Interested in how the test scores of
Omaha students compare to students in other states? Create your own
comparison and watch as the results graphically animate on to the
screen. Like golf? Move your cursor (a golf ball, of course) from
green to green on the Omaha map and see what each course has to offer.
In
Doing
Business in Omaha,
users can choose from an equally broad range of information and
activities. Interested in the tax incentives available for locating a
large manufacturing facility in Omaha? Plug in your numbers for new
construction and equipment, number of new employees and their
proposed salaries, even include an annual cost of living increase.
Then if you want, play what
if
with the numbers you've entered which now become the defaults.
Interested in seeing the industrial sites that are available in
Omaha? They are there with just a click of the mouse. How about
comparing industrial electrical rates around the country? Just slide
your cursor around the map and watch the rate comparisons flash up.
Conventions
and Tourism
offers the planner an opportunity to click on a list of specific
hotel or motel criteria and be shown the hotels that satisfy those
needs along with information on rates, amenities, addresses and phone
numbers. Need to plan an evening out for your group? Select the type
of cuisine, atmosphere or price range you would like then decide from
the list.