SPIN News...

Feb 2008 Our New Web Page

We are proud to announce the release of our new SPIN specific web page. This new page will allow SPIN's benefits to be fully explored.

Feb 2008 InterVivos Turns to SPIN

InterVivos received a tour of SPIN from the folks at PolicyChannel.com and found that SPIN is exactly what they need to manage the large number of people connected with the organization, and the upcoming events. InterVivos implemented SPIN in late February.

Jan 2008 MICYRN Adopts SPIN

MICYRN found that SPIN has exactly what it needed to maintain it's large list of member researchers, as well as the event and meeting managment. They feel that for every meeting their membership has, they will save 20 to 30 hours of time that an Executive Assistant will no longer need to spend on chasing around members and their calendars.

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SPIN features

For Everyone

  • Web based tool secured with SSL (the same security used with online banking applications)
  • Role-based login: users only view the data that you give them access to
  • Unlimited user login: you don't pay more if you need more users on the system
  • Allows you to keep track of 300 or 300 million people
  • Organize people into communities of interest, and target those specific communities for communication
  • Multiple communication types: email, text message to cell phones, skype call outs (for phone polls or individual call) - all directly from the web tool
  • A central repository for up-to-date contact information (eg. email lists) that all users have access to
  • Pre-canned PDF reports (and custom reports are extremely cost effective)
  • Phone poll: create phone polls that your users can execute right in the software for real time information updating
  • Track GIS coordinates (latitude and longitude) of addresses, and display them on a map
  • Search capabilities: find people in your database via their phone number, first or last name (or both), street address, postal code, community of interest, email address, etc.
  • Use the dynamically generated event calendar on an area of your current web page (with one line of HTML code to add). This allows your regular web visitors to keep abreast of the events and meetings your organization is planning
  • Use the dynamically generated news feed on an area of your current web page (with one line of HTML code to add). This allows your regular web visitors to keep abreast of any news items you want them to know about
  • Upload large contact lists
  • Conduct surveys

Intelligence Gathering

  • Track specific points of intelligence that are then searchable
  • Track an unlimited amount of intelligence via free form text entry fields for each person.
  • Send email to groups of people, and understand which specific individuals in the group are forwarding your email to others

Political Campaign Management

  • Signs: track new sign requests, maintenance & removal requests, statistics based on neighbourhood, etc.
  • Print signage reports as daily "to do list" for the sign volunteer
  • GOTV (Get Out The Vote): Print lists of people by poll with bar codes, and use bar code technology to move poll visit information back into SPIN. This will dynamically modify the GOTV phone poll that is running on election day, minimizing the load on your volunteers
  • Send people wanting to make a donation from your web site to the web tool, and it will take care of everything for you. It will take the relevant credit card or bank card information from your donor, clear the transaction, create detailed donation reports for government tracking, and send you a cheque with the aggregated donations. It can even print and mail a "thank you" letter to the donor for you!

Event Management

  • Invite large groups of people to an event, and have them RSVP directly. The software keeps track of who is attending, who is unable to attend, and who has not responded yet.
  • Set capacity limits on an event
  • Send invitation reminders to those who have not responded to an invite yet
  • Download spreadsheets containing attendance lists for printed attendance lists, name badge printing, named giveaway tagging, etc.
  • SPIN will collect event registration fees automatically. It will handle the attendees credit card information, clear the transaction, keep detailed financial reports and send you a cheque.

Meeting Management

  • Create a set of suggested meeting dates and times for a particular meeting, and have the invited attendees "vote" on the date/times that works into their schedule. The Software will then pick the winning time based on the votes.
  • For a given meeting, create a "must attend" list and a "requested to attend" list. If someone from the "must attend" list cannot attend a particular date/time in the suggested set (from the point above), the date/time is dropped from the running
  • When the date/time is decided, an "meeting request" email is sent to all of the attendees so that it drops into their calendar

Tool Based Text messaging

  • A receptionist can receive a call, and forward you a text message with the caller's information attached
  • Text message any user in the tool