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Edit Profile & Membership Dashboard Features Added

Reports - Website

Daryl Crouse

Mar 01 |21:20
Last Updated on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:38

Event registration and PayPal processing is operating very well and there are no recorded outstanding complaints.

All member concerns addressed.  One member expressed concern about how to find their profile information. The member received screen share instructions and demonstration of how to change birth date, etc.  This member provided valuable feedback which is incorporated in the features described below.

Feature Roadmap

The website user menu options changed over the weekend to clarify where the member could change password, update address, phone (i.e. profile), certification, upload copies of certifications, etc.

The dashboard shows a synopsis of the relevant membership status and expiration, events registered and attended, and contributions made to the organization among other things.

  • Directory search continuing development.

On the way to a useable search directory. Currently the directory is searchable (not released to all users yet) but the privacy settings for phone, etc are still being setup.

Please take a moment to update your own profile information after you login.

  • Treasurer and Webmaster need to setup training session on “how to reconcile checks  and online ‘pay by check/later’ transactions."
  • Membership chair provided export from legacy database for import into CiviCRM. I am doing a dry run using a backup instance of the website to test importing the data before doing a live import.
  • Committee chairs and officers consolidated into one category. All contacts are now displayed on the Contact Us page along with the official mailing address.

Known Issues

  • The profile is not saving from the user input mobile or video phone numbers. If saved from the backend, they are successfully stored.

Please try to save your own into your profile and let me know if it works or not.

 

Beta Website and Alpha Commitee

Reports - Website

Daryl Crouse

Nov 16 |22:55
Last Updated on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:59

The newly formed website committee met informally over the telephone to discuss some strategies for supporting members and the leadership of the organization. The committee is considering assigning a designated person to several members of the board and committee chairs as the "go-to" person if they need help. This approach should provide a distributed workload between committee members and foster a supportive and more personalized raport.

For the short-term the committee is working on the continued deployment of features for the website. Committeee members new to the Joomla platform are taking this time to get their feet wet and learn the ropes so that they will be ready to transition to role of supporting the work of others through the website.

Notable features released in the past month:

Event calendar

  • Add an event feature for people to use. Public access has been temporarily closed because a spammer tried to post a bunch of things to the calendar but we caught it.  When site registration is ready to go, then registered users whether members or not will be able to add events.
  • All the various calendars that are used in planning were imported into a single calendar

PayPal Payment Processing

Thanks to Richard and Robin for their suppport in facilitating the setup of a PayPal payment processing. Apha testing of online event registration and payment is being conducted this week. Public launch of event registration and payment is planned to take place after the board meeting.

Online Event Registration

So much to say about this functionality! I think it can best be summed up with a picture.

Event Registration Page

SCRID Official E-mail Conversion

SCRID now has an official home for e-mail, documents, calendar, etc. through a non-profit implementation of Google Apps. November 15, 2009 marked the official conversion date for many of the board and committee to the new virtual office for SCRID.

What impact have the members experienced?

The membership continues to show good polling numbers in reaction to the launch of the new website. No major problems have occurred since the beta launch. 83% of the voters like where the website is going so far.  8.3% are still waiting to to see if everything promised is delivered.  Finally, 8.3% hate the new site, but they want to help improve it. Important to note that so far there are only 12 votes so there is not a large enough sample to derive any validity from the numbers yet.  However, it is a start and the membership seem to be slowly but surely warming up to the interactive nature of the site.

Website Poll Showing Strong Support of the Website Launch

Respectfully submitted for your information and deliberation.

Daryl Crouse,  Chairperson

Marjorie Foster, Committee Member (Xtreme! - Thanks for your hard work in learning all this new tech.  You're doing great!!!)

Bob LoParo expressed interest in joining the committee and his involvement will start this coming month hopefully.