Saving time
On Monday, Jim Anderton announced that the Government was investing $10 million in developing website to help people make their businesses better. Said Anderton:
It’s important that businesses can access quality, trusted information quickly and efficiently. The portal will reduce the costs of searching on the internet and will provide easy access to sound, reliable information.
By helping to reduce the amount of time businesses spend searching for information on the Internet, and providing help to improve business skills, the portal will play an important role in helping to lift New Zealand’s productivity.
Noble goals, all. The problem is, though, that Mr Anderton got the URL of the website wrong, pointing businesses to www.biz.org. Those enterprising New Zealanders who read the press release, and plugged www.biz.org into the browser would have been confused to be taken to the Bank of International Settlements’ website.
Presumably, the website Mr Anderton really wanted business people to go to was www.biz.org.nz, or the “Business Information Zone”. Oops. So much for reducing the amount of time businesses spend searching for information on the Internet…
Helpfully, a corrected version of the press release has now been posted on the Beehive and Progressive Party websites.
