AtHomeNet's President and Director of Technology, Jeff Sanders, is sharing the good news!
Apples for everyone!
George Edwards, Manager of Programming, with his friend, the iPad, displaying AtHomeNet iGoMobile.
AtHomeNet iGoMobile
For more information about the release of AtHomeNet iGoMobile, contact us at Sales@AtHomeNet.com! If you have feedback about this exciting new feature of AtHomeNet Elite web services, send it to Feedback@AtHomeNet.com!
AtHomeNet is very excited to announce that our iPhone App, AtHomeNet iGoMobile is now available in the App Store!
AtHomeNet iGoMobile is an extension of AtHomeNet’s Elite web services, offering community and association managers the ability to access community information from their iPhone.
If you are a current AtHomeNet client with an Elite website, the App is free to download and currently offers you access to your Address Book and contact information for Support. As we continue to develop this exciting product, more functionality will be added to the App—we’ll keep you in the loop here on the AtHomeNet blog, so check in with us often and be sure to follow us on Twitter (@AtHomeNet)!
Screenshot of the AtHomeNet iGoMobile website
If you don’t have an AtHomeNet website and you’re interested in learning more about our community and association management websites, contact us today at 800.556.7852 or Sales@AtHomeNet.com! We’re happy to answer all of your questions!
For AtHomeNet Classic clients:
AtHomeNet Classic website clients can access their website from any mobile device with a web browser through AtHomeNet GoMobile—a mobile web application designed for Classic website users. Just enter your community website URL into the browser followed by “/m” to access your mobile website (for example, http://yourcommunitybulletins.com/m. If you have any questions about accessing your website with AtHomeNet GoMobile, contact Support at 800.556.7852 or Support@AtHomeNet.com!
Imari Adams, our Communications Specialist, sits in the epicenter of what may appear to be a tool shed in progress; but what actually is a sound-reinforced media room where the majority of AtHomeNet’s audio and video projects are recorded and edited.
Communications Specialist, Imari Adams, in AtHomeNet Studios
Videos for new product enhancements, tutorials for our features, and even audio for demos and special projects are all handled in the AtHomeNet media room. Video is an essential component to our customers enjoying a quick way to see what the company is rolling out next, and walk them through how to get the most use out of what they already have.
AtHomeNet Studios
This will be the second location for AtHomeNet’s media room, and the “mobile sound reinforcement”, which is comprised of tiered mattress padding affixed to a plywood base, is designed to be able to relocated if necessary.
Head of Construction for this project is our own Frank Garro, the best handyman ever! Thanks for all of your hard work, Frank!
Frank is hard at work!
AtHomeNet, Inc. announced the expansion of their services at the
Community Association Institute’s National Conference and Exposition
Suwanee, GA – AtHomeNet, Inc. (www.AtHomeNet.com) has returned from a successful trip to the Community Association Institute’s National Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas. Five members of the AtHomeNet team traveled to network and interact with members of the Community Association Institute and talk about the suite of new technologies available from the metro Atlanta web services company.
“The Expo was a great opportunity to literally put our services into the hands of our clients and potential clients. Having the chance to witness them using our websites first hand gave us great insight that we will use for the creation of exciting new services and will help us to provide exceptional service to our large family of clients,” remarked Director of Technology, Jeff Sanders.
The suite of new technologies, AtHomeNet Everywhere, showcases the company’s services including AtHomeNet Classic, AtHomeNet Elite, AtHomeNet GoMobile and AtHomeNet iGoMobile. AtHomeNet Classic is a new approach to the traditional website solution, while Elite is a new web service with expanded flexibility and power. AtHomeNet GoMobile is a mobile website application that allows access to Classic community websites. For more information about AtHomeNet GoMobile, visit www.AtHomeNetGoMobile.com. AtHomeNet iGoMobile is a soon to be released iPhone™ App that designed to compliment Elite websites.
Tradeshow attendees were also given a sneak peek at AtHomeNet’s newest offering, Newsletter Architect. The new feature will offer clients the opportunity to design and deliver professional newsletters with an intuitive interface. “Everything we do is with the goal of providing the best web services to communities and property management companies,” said CEO Susan Sanders.
The event was documented on video to learn more about how clients are using AtHomeNet’s web services and share that information with clients who may not have been able to attend the conference. Videos of the tradeshow have been posted on AtHomeNet’s YouTube channel, http://www.YouTube.com/AtHomeNet.
“Putting an Apple iPad and iPod touch into the hands of booth visitors so that they could experience AtHomeNet GoMobile and AtHomeNet iGoMobile was a lot of fun! We were able to showcase our new technology on a device that stirred their curiousity and allowed them to explore our mobile functionality,” said Director of Sales, Mike Curtis.
In 5 days we will be officially releasing the new AtHomeNet Elite Community and Association Management company website service. So, I thought I would celebrate by listing my 5 favorite things about the Elite website service:
1. True Role-Based security – okay, that’s a bit geeky sounding but what it means is that you can create as many “roles” as you want, like “resident”, ”board member” and “social committee chairperson”, and then assign a unique set of abilities to each of those roles depending upon exactly what you want them to be able to do on the web site. Then you just assign people to these roles (that’s right, each person in your community can belong to as many roles as they need) and the system automatically takes care of letting them see and do only the things they are allowed to see and do on the website. Pretty powerful stuff.
2. Unlimited copies of each feature – so, let’s say you really like the Events Calendar on your website where residents can find out what activities are coming up in the neighborhood, but now you want to have a separate calendar that is only for the members of the Board to track their important dates. Easy, just make another “copy” of the Events Calendar feature and only give the Board role (see, there’s that cool role thing again) the rights to see this copy. You can do this with almost every feature we offer which gives you a lot of flexibility to create special “sub-sites” within your main website for groups within your community.
3. Less clicking and fewer page reloads – we have implemented a brand new navigation layout in Elite to keep you from having to click so many times to get to the information you want, and when you do click, there is a good chance that the information you are looking for will popup without having to reload an entire new page in your browser thanks to a technology called AJAX. Both of these things are designed to make using your website quicker and easier for both administrators and residents.
4. Dragging, Dropping and Popping – a couple of other things we have done to make using the website easier (and more fun) is to make use of “Drag and Drop” for reordering things on your website (like the menu for example) and Pop-up administrative screens that let you quickly add or edit things without having to go off to a new page and lose track of where you were. Now, you can make your changes and presto, you are right back where you were, ready to carry on.
5. Easy multi-site management – this one is great for those portfolio managers out there, working hard to keep board members and residents in all of their communities happy and up to date. Now you can not only easily hop from one of your community websites to another with a single step but also you can quickly post information or send out important eMail Bulletins to all or select residents across many communities from one place using centralized content publishing. This will make the job of communicating with all your boards or residents so much easier and quicker than ever before.
I hope you like some of these things as much as I do. Keep chekcing back here for more information about the AtHomeNet Elite website service.
After reading articles and hearing from others about the benefits I finally broke down and upgraded to DUAL MONITORS for my main desktop computer two days ago.
I must say that even in that short amount of time I am getting a sense that this is something that really does increase my daily productivity. I had read a study by Microsoft Research that found productivity increases of between 9% and 50% had been seen doing typical daily computer tasks. I can’t put an exact number on it myself but the first big benefit I find is being able to keep two full-screen applications open at once for easy multi-tasking, such as working in OneNote or Microsoft Project for project planning while still keeping an eye on my Outlook (you have to be careful about this because checking your email can be a HUGE time sink if you are not careful – more about that in a future post). The second area this helps in is when I am programming (I definately have to shut Outlook down for that). I actually stretch my development program (Microsoft Visual Studio 2008) across both monitors and that allows me to open up all the toolbars and explorers I need to use and still easily see all the code without having to scroll back and forth. It’s great.
So, in summary, if you spend a significant portion of your day sitting in front of a computer like I do (even if it isn’t programming), I would highly recommend you invest the money (and LCD monitors are really dropping in price these days) to set yourself up with two identical monitors and set your Operating System to stretch your desktop across both of them.
If you are doing this and have any suggestions or stories about how this is helping (or not helping) you work, post them in the comments.
