Jason Hollingsworth will be at a CAI Austin lunch today!
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October 22, 2009
Client of the Day: Community Management Solutions, Inc – Houston, TX. Congratulations! http://CMSISolutions.com
October 20, 2009
Client of the Day: Courtyards at Kendall Condo Association – Miami, FL. http://bit.ly/3Hpn4S
October 13, 2009
Mike Curtis will be in the SFO area from 10/08-14. Sadly it’s been raining the majority of his stay. We hope it won’t rain when he gets back
Becky and Mike are going to the CAI Chesapeake Tradeshow
September 23, 2009Becky and Mike are going to the CAI Chesapeake Tradeshow in Baltimore MD on Thursday 9/24, will be visiting in the Baltimore area on Friday.
Client of the Day: Lake Harmony Village
July 29, 2009Client of the Day: Lake Harmony Village – Moscow, PA. Congratulations! http://LakeHarmonyVillage.com
Wow.. ever have one of those moments where you feel like you’re watching the world from an alternate universe ?
February 15, 2009It happened to me this weekend. We had my parents over for a Valentine’s Day family luncheon. We’re all sitting in the living room and my dad starts asking me about a Facebook message he was sent. It seems that my 74 year old Dad has ventured into the world of social networking. and that is where my out of body experience happened. I felt like I was in this alternate universe watching myself tried to not have the look of shock on my face. Pretending that it was perfectly normal that dear old dad is hangin out with his grandkids on Facebook! If you really want to make his day – look him up – Herman Kuck in Alpharetta, GA – just say hey!
In selling an online service to community associations for the past ten years, I lost track of the # of board members in their 40’s who worry that the older people in their neighborhood that don’t understand the internet and won’t find value in a web site… time for a wake up call. I read that the fastest growing demographic on the web is the older than 65 crowd.. and I believe it!
New Year Resolutions…
January 27, 2009Yes, I know that it is almost February, 1/12th of the way through the New Year, but I’ve always been the cautious type – look before you leap and all that and now I am ready to announce my New Year Resolutions.. all the typical 40ish year old woman stuff on the personal side, lose weight, exercise more, eat right, be nicer to the hubby, etc.
On the business side, one of our company goals is to work with our admins to increase resident adoption of their community web sites. Once a resident finds recurring value in the site, the community as a whole benefits by reducing their costs for distribution of information, have greater resident involvement and a better informed neighborhood.
To that end, first item on the list is to make sure our Admins know all the amazing features we have available and understand how they can apply them to their own community web sites. Every month we publish the AtHomeNet Gazette (find it at www.AtHomeNetAdmins.com ) and this week AtHomeNet’s Director of Client Services, Tasha Beard, is holding two FREE online classes reviewing 2008’s enhancements for admins. In 2008 we released over 400 enhancements to our service so we understand that admins might not be aware of all of them – so this class is focused on the best of the best from 2008. You can register today at by clicking here
Join us in making our resolution a reality!
A Time to Save
October 4, 2008With the nation’s financial troubles taking center stage, many HOAs and communities are trying to find ways to maximize community resources. Many already know that having a community website eliminates paper, printing, time, and distribution methods, but many communities are coming up with innovative ways to use their websites to not only save money but also to save valuable time.
For instance, using the combination of the eForm feature and the Task Manager feature for your Architectural Review Committee (ARC or ACC) you can let residents submit ACC requests directly online and they will automatically feed into the Task Manager as a new, open task. Your ACC committee members can then use all the powerful features of the Task Manager (status tracking, automatic email notifications, notes and comments tracking) to review and debate the request online prior to the regular meeting whenever it is convenient for each committee member. Then when meeting time shows up nobody has to wait around while everyone reviews each request and argues about it. Your meetings become gatherings to sign requests you have already reviewed online.
I know this from experience because I was the chair of the ACC committee in my 612 home community for several years and before we began using Task Manager our meetings could easily be 2+ hours long. Once we implemented a policy of posting and reviewing all requests online in the Task Manager the meetings were cut down to as short as 30 minutes a month. Now that’s a meeting I can handle!
What other ideas do you have for using a community website to save time and money for your volunteers and your community? Share them in the comments.
