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NPO Connect
Our content management system, called NPO Connect, has been specifically designed for use by not-for-profit organizations. NPO Connect has been created by my company, Beyond-HTML, and the underlying technology has been deployed by numerous organizations including Mothers Against Drunk Driving (Madd.org), the Elizabeth Glasser Pediatric Aids Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, and the Philadelphia Zoo. The system is secure, easy to use and maintain, and it’s “plug-in” architecture allows the system to be expanded or enhanced with little or no changes to existing ASP-based sites.
Software Licenses Starting at $1999.00
Content Management System Features
Our content management system is easy to use, easy to maintain, and supports the features your non-profit organization requires, as well as many value-added features. Unlike other CMS systems NPO Connect is an open architecture that allows plug-in features to be added now or in the future.
Highlights of the CMS include:
• User login with privilege-level access down to document level*
• Calendar and scheduling
• In-site searching
• Forum software for public or private message posting
• Ecommerce (on-line store) can be integrated with bank merchant services to collect donations.*
• Easy-to-use site editing tools from any browser
• Intuitive site administration tools
• Powerful SQL database management
• Email List Management and Distribution
• Reporting and Web analytics*
• File uploads, downloads and online file management
• Fully compliant with W3C standards
• Extensible architecture using plug-in modules
Content Management Features
• Customizable page templates
• WYSIWYG editor with spell-checker
• Workflow, preview, versioning, content locking (optional*)
Web Site Features
• Drop-down menus, CSS list menus, tree menus, and tab menus
• Full-text search in database content AND in uploaded files
• Dynamic site maps
Security Features
• Customizable roles and permissions
• User registration and log in
• Secured Web pages
• Document-level permissions and content personalization (optional*)
• “Code-behind” programming model that hides site code
Calendar and Scheduling*
The Event Calendar allows you to display content in the calendar style. It can be used not only for events, but also for news, articles, blog posts or any other document that contains a date field for binding with calendar.
The event calendar can be combined with our Scheduling module to manage board meetings, volunteer scheduling, conferences, web casts, presentations, community meetings, and so on. The module is similar to a booking system that allows you to display the event calendar together with a registration form. You can use it for both off-line and on-line events You can restrict the registration period and the capacity of the event. Once visitors register, you can manage their registrations in the administration area and send them e-mail with event updates.
Forum Software
The Forums module allows you to integrate forums or comments functionality into your web site and build on-line communities. You can create either pre-defined forums displayed on a specified page or you can create "ad-hoc" forums bound to particular document that allows visitors to post comments on article or ask questions about the subject. Supported features include:
• public and private forums
• moderated forums (posts need to be approved by moderator)
• secured forums - only chosen users can read/post items to the forum
• threaded/flat/tree view modes
• subscribe to new forum posts or replies to your post
• avatars (user images) and signatures
• optional CAPTCHA verification to ensure the user is a human, not a spam robot
• forum search
Messaging, Email Management and Distribution
Email accounts are provided by your Web hosting company. If you choose our Web hosting services (see Web Hosting at the end of this document), premium hosting includes up to 1,000 email accounts.
However, NPO Connect includes private messaging that allows site members to send messages to other members. It's a "small Outlook" integrated into your Web site. Users can see their inbox, outbox, manage contact lists and filter spam messages. Users can be notified in their hosting e-mail when they receive a new NPO Connect message.
Please Note that neither your hosting company nor NPO Connect provide for mass email marketing programs. If HfH plans to send email marketing campaigns to 500 users or more, we recommend a professional service such as Sparklist or our own Express Email Marketing program. Pricing for Express Email Marketing runs from $7.99 per month for 500 emails to 5,000 emails for $27.99/ month.
Web Site Analytics*
This optional module allows you to track web site visitors and their behavior. You can get the following statistics on a yearly, monthly, daily and hourly basis:
• Visits
• Page views
• Downloads
• Invalid pages
• Referring URLs
• Conversions
• Campaigns
• Browser types
• Countries
Note: Basic Web statistics (not analytics, however) are generally provided through log files generated by your Web server or hosting company. (See our hosting options at the end of this proposal.) It is also possible to gain reasonable analytics free of charge using Google analytics. However, this requires establishing a Google Adwords account.
Other Modules Included in NPO Connect
• Blogs
• On-line forms using BizForms
• Newsletter Management
• On-line polls and surveys
• Articles, news, products, jobs, FAQ's, and knowledge base
• User Contributions using Wiki software
• Image Gallery
• GeoMapping
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