Article: FEW AWARE OF CITY'S INNOVATIVE WEB SITE

The City of Boston has come up with a cutting-edge way of using the Web to make the lives of its residents a little bit easier. Unfortunately, almost no one in Boston is aware of it.

The city's Web site, cityofBoston.gov, now allows a resident to pull all sorts of information from the site together in one personalized page dubbed mygov. The resident can quickly check his property, excise tax, and dog license information, find out about health violations at his favorite restaurants, or choose to receive special announcements on various topics by e-mail or electronic phone message.

The notification process has a lot of potential. Snowstorms, for example, cause a lot of headaches for the city ...

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