[USMA:11664] Charleston Metro Chamber - About Us

[James R. Frysinger]

I volunteered to do pro bono work to metricate the web pages of my
area's Chamber of Commerce and also to provide a half day of training
for their research department. I ended up supplying several metricated
pages (leaving non-metric units as is but adding metric information and
providing the coding for that material) to the Chamber as well as
conducting the promised training. I had held off reporting this to the
USMA list, being told periodically by my chamber contacts that follow
through action was imminent and hoping to report resounding success. But
over a year and a half has elapsed since I started and the material I
provided still has not been fully installed. Part way through the
process, they switched companies for the maintenance of their web pages.

Here is one of the more data-laden pages toward which I contributed and
one where at least a portion of my contribution was more-or-less
incorporated. The data is not in the format I provided (which is why it
is terrible) and several weeks ago I (again) provided "cut and paste"
coding to fix the errors. Nonetheless, no corrections have been made.

So, this is as far as they got on this one page. I can claim only
partial success in metricating the Chamber's web pages and have given up
hope of further progress. But we did make some progress; at the outstart
there was absolutely no metric information. Again, here's one exemplar
and you may find a few others by roaming around the site. Beware the
ChamberBiz cookie monster, by the way; it will want to plant several
cookies on your computer.

   http://www.charlestonchamber.net/Charleston_moving_metroRegion.asp

Perhaps you will be more successful than I was if you likewise volunteer
to metricate your chambers' pages. Or be willing to settle for only
partial success, which is of course better than none. Ironically, due to
the presence of some modern and technical businesses, Charleston is
probably more metric than these pages would lead one to believe.

IF YOU MAKE ANY COMMENTS TO THE CHAMBER (which is NOT the reason for
this message), PLEASE LEAVE MY NAME OUT OF IT AND MAKE NO REFERENCE TO
"A MESSAGE FROM A CHARLESTONIAN"!!!!!

Jim

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Metric Methods(SM)           "Don't be late to metricate!"
James R. Frysinger, CAMS     http://www.metricmethods.com/
10 Captiva Row               e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charleston, SC 29407         phone/FAX:  843.225.6789

Title: Charleston Metro Chamber - About Us

Moving to Charleston Now that you're here Doing business Education   At A Glance Charleston Metro Area, SC Location: Comprised of three counties-Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester-the Charleston Metropolitan Area stretches along the central and southern South Carolina coast. The region includes over 90 miles (145 km) of Atlantic coastline and reaches some 50 miles (80 km) inland towards the intersection of Interstates 26 & 95. Distance to major U.S. cities Atlanta, GA  291 miles 468 km Los Angeles, CA 2,485 miles 3,999 km Miami, FL 590 miles  950 km New York, NY  768 miles  1,236 km Geography (land and water area) Berkeley County  1,229.23 sq. miles 3,184 km2 Charleston County 1,357.14 sq. miles 3,515 km2 Dorchester County 576.74 sq. miles  1,494 km2 Metro Area 3,163.11 sq. miles   8,192 km2 Climate Average annual temperature 65.6�F  18.7�C Average daily maximum  75.5�F 24.2�C Average daily minimum 55.7�F  13.2�C Average annual rainfall 51.53 inches 131 cm Average relative humidity(7 a.m.)  86% (estimate)   Population   1990  1999 Berkeley County 128,776 142,300 Charleston County 295,039  319,921  Dorchester County  83,060  90,582 Metro Area 506,875 552,803  Racial Composition (Metro Area) White  67.8% Black 30.2% Other 1.9% Average Household Income (EBI*) Berkeley County $36,390 Charleston County $44,158 Dorchester County $40,732 Metro Area $41,799 *EBI is Effective Buying Income, or income after taxes Labor Force & Employment Labor Force  274,840 Total Employment  266,360 Unemployment Rate 3.1% Employment by Sector Construction 7.8% Manufacturing  9.2% TCPU  5.3% Trade  25.2% FIRE  3.6% Services  28.3% Government 20.7% Total Retail Sales (Metro Area) 1993  $8,500,000,000 1994  $8,800,000,000 1995  $9,300,000,000 1996  $10,000,000,000 1997  $10,500,000,000 1998  $11,200,000,000 1999  $12,150,000,000 Major Employers Medical University of SC  8,000 US Navy 6,000 Charleston Air Force Base  5,292 Charleston County School District  4,865 CareAlliance Health Services 4,500 Berkeley County School District 3,311 Charleston County  2,243 Westvaco Corporation 2,205  Columbia/HCA & Trident Health System 1,882 Robert Bosch Corporation  1,800 Education Colleges & Universities Enrollment Charleston Southern University 2,500 The Citadel  3,968 College of Charleston/Univ. of Charleston 11,764 Johnson & Wales Culinary Univ.  1,441 Limestone College  415 Medical University of SC 2,883 Trident Technical College 9,100 Webster University 430 Tourism Impact (1999) Annual Economic Impact $3.2 billion #Annual Visitors 3,700,000 Average Hotel Occupancy 69.98% Average Daily Rate $98.11 Source: Center for Business Research, Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, 9/2000. this pressOmatic site created by Slicker inc.