Why i-portal?
Spider's iPortal solution provides an Interactive Members Portal that stimulates member communications and involvement.
Housing Authorities and ALMOs can now provide a Resident's Portal providing collaborative areas based on communities of interest. Your private fully branded communications suite extends your tenant involvement strategy providing a full range of online applications.
Political Organisations can now get their constituencies more involved in local politics. iPortal mobilizes people around the key issues that matter in the community. Organise events, share information, bring in guest speakers, create an exciting online environment to effect change.
Professional Associations can now provide a vibrant, application rich community portal for your members and other stakeholders complementing your website and managed by yourselves. iPortal enables the free exchange of ideas and documents, online Media Centres to broadcast events and interviews, an Event Centre, Document Management, Discussion Forums and more.
Our powerful suite of applications allows member based organisations to create and customise their own online environment.
Interactive Centres
At the heart of i-portal are distinct, member-based, collaborative Group areas. For example, a Housing Authority may have their own area for their youth services, a Political Constituency may have their own area for campaigns or social action groups each with their own discussion forums, document sharing, live chat rooms, shared address books and calendars, photo & video albums. You create the groups, add members and add applications. It's simple!
Branded Homepage
A login snippet on your website enables members with a user name and password to enter your Interactive Members Area. Members are greeted with a branded homepage offering the most popular applications on the web, announcement areas, ticker tapes, RSS Feeds and polls that you define.
Sharing Documents Online
Every member is provided with a private, public and shared area online for storing and sharing documents or files of any type. Shared areas can be created based on Groups, allowing the members a secure means of sharing documents online.
Discussion Forums
i-portal's threaded discussion forums reduce email noise by providing a structured, archived approach to member communications.
Online Event Centre
Where specific Groups can schedule their own events, the members can co-ordinate an events diary, the Association can mobilise members for training, campaigns, major events and more.
Membership Management
i-portal allows you to administer your Interactive Members Portal. All aspects of Member, Domain and Application management are controlled from a single management interface. We allow you to shape and mould your own online environment.
Online Registration
Allows you to gather the information you require from each of your members to better segment and target the right information to the right person. You define the information you would like to collect.
Benefits
- Adds a new online members area that compliments your existing website & extends your communications & involvement strategy
- Gets members more involved in the affairs of your Association
- Become the de-facto industry specific portal where all members and key constituencies go to communicate with the Association and amongst themselves to access new information
- Download newsletters, white papers, development plans, etc
- Give notice of all plans & gain valuable feedback quickly and effectively
- Anytime, anywhere access via the web for all your global members
- Fully managed service, so no impact on your resources
- No hardware or software required
- Easy to implement, minimum support required
- Lowest cost solution