Connected Community for iMIS

Higher Logic's Connected Community software suite allows member-based organizations to extend the benefits of events, education, and networking through innovative on-demand tools.

• Increase member satisfaction and retention.
• Provide cross-generational appeal.
• Offer new non-dues revenue opportunities.

Connected Community is integrated with iMIS, so members can generate their own content and create secure, private communities based on the information stored in iMIS.

Connected Community is composed of six independent, but integrated products that allow your organization to build online communities, strengthen component relations and offer professional networking.

eGroups
Combining the best of listserves and threaded discussion forums, eGroups is an ideal communication tool to enable communities to engage in dialog while pushing out and archiving user-generated content.

• Author's picture links to the author's full profile
• Easy-to-read e-mails with collapse/expand ability
• Respond privately to the author or to the group
• Receive PDA versions of e-mails

Microsites
Microsites is a small content management system (CMS) that can extend your CMS to the component level or serve as the core CMS for a website for your small organization, event, committee, chapter or other group.

• Familiar interfaces make it easy to add content and modify navigation
• Built-in web statistics reporting, search, and banner ad spots
• Edit-from-the-page capabilities so that you can correct mistakes or add content right from the component website
• No technical skill required to add links, content or images

Event Calendar
Display events stored in iMIS as well as those added by community members. Empower community leaders to post and archive their own events while maintaining the ability to push out national-level event information to any event calendar located within your website structure.

• Have a community calendar to support local events
• Easy to add and modify events
• Provide an event calendar to each community site and roll-up to aggregate view
• Color-coding distinguishes community-level events from national events

Resource Library
The Resource Library provides an area within your website where users may upload and download files, and comment, rate, and tag documents to offer additional context to the posting. Each library can hold multiple kinds of documents, including streaming video, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, images, Microsoft Office and Apple iWork documents.

• Post documents and retrieve them when needed with zero reliance on organizational staff
• Subscribe to RSS feed to receive automated updates of new postings
• Rate content and tag it so that most valuable content is easy to find

Directory 2.0
Aggregate data from iMIS, social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and user-generated data to create a comprehensive user profile. With a comprehensive profile of other group members, members can get to know each other better, build networks faster, and more easily communicate with one another.

• Receive recognition for on/offline participation within the organization
• Easily find contacts based on past shows attended, profile matching feature and searching the member directory
• Pre-populated profiles based on iMIS, LinkedIn, and/or Facebook
• Blog within a trusted network of like-minded people who share similar interests

Wiki Glossary
Users can collaborate together to create and maintain industry definitions that serve as part of the knowledge base of your organization. With easy-to-use content creation interfaces, users can post and modify new definitions, as well as rating, commenting and viewing related terms.

• Tag cloud shows which words are the most popular based on usage
• Rate definitions
• Update entries and comment upon other users' entries
• RSS subscription option to receive updates on new postings
• Easy to input new definitions and comments

Technology
Built on Microsoft .NET technology, Higher Logic's Connected Community™ utilizes the same .NET platform as iMIS to allow for an unprecedented level of interoperability between systems.

• Integration with iMIS from 10.x forward.
• Single Sign On (SSO) to ensure one login to your organization's website, ISGweb, eSeries, iMIS 15 public views, and other applications.
• Integration with Informz to ensure your newsletters can include user-generated content.

The Connected Community software suite is delivered via a SaaS (software-as-a-service) model to ensure subscribers receive continuous updates to their feature set and never have to undergo costly upgrades or require staff to take on additional software maintenance tasks. New features and capabilities are released to customer sites on a frequent basis without any additional fees.

Higher Logic supports its subscriber base through the Higher Logic User Group (HUG) and a full spectrum of educational and engagement programs designed to provide ongoing support for association staff and volunteer leadership.

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