TopazPort Features List

Summary

1. a robust content management system
2. a community management system to promote participation of your audience with your website
3. broadcast tools to communicate via email with your audience
4. integration into a larger network through which we can easily promote your content, events and promotion ideas

Strategic

1. Long term commitment to engage your members/audience with online tools that compete with and supersede mass market social network online services
2. Long term strategy and commitment to push the envelope for online collaboration with affinity groups and clubs
3. Deep experience with high traffic community web applications (iTurf, ESPN, Disney)
4. Deep experience with sensitive Brand management online (Disney, high end professional services firms, YAAMNY)
5. Deep experience as a full service technology services consultancy IRIServe
6. Unique approach of supporting membership generated bottom-up participation in organizational discussion

  

Technical Features In Detail

1. Provide one click install through web interface
2. User Driven Attractive and Easy to Use Bulletin Boards
   • Allow members and visitors to post (for example):
     • News announcement
     • Calendar Events
     • Rental Classifieds
     • Job Opportunities Classifieds
   • Collaborative WYSIWYG Pages
   • Enable topic categorization such as “volunteering opportunities” or “upcoming event” descriptions
   • User controlable categorization of all material by section
   • Easy creation of new post types
   • The portal service already has over a dozen post types if desired
   • Adding new fields or post types can be done by administrators in a few minutes at any time
   • All event and classifieds have a post start and end date
3. User Driven Events & Activity Calendar
   • Allow members and visitors to post events
   • Allow different events to be displayed differently depending on the permission level of the user who made the post and the category assigned to the post
   • Add Event Filters by
     • location of event
     • group association of event
     • Type of event
   • Allow year/month/day navigation through calendar events
   • Allow permission settings to show / hide certain events from certain groups
   • Event categorization by location, event type, and even sub-group information if relevant.
   • All events are viewable monthly, weekly or just by individual event
4. Easily customizable user profile and relationship management data (profile architecture allows any data to be added easily)
5. Navigation with Client ability to easily update/change the links and menu items
6. Allow users to form sub-groups
   • User controllable group registration and content permission controls
   • Ability for users to join subgroupsand sub-group mailing liststhrough the web interface
   • Displays all data about a subgroup including contact details and manager info and member list for administrators
   • Displays all sub-groups with which each member is associated
   • For example, another client, Dwight Hall has over 100 sub groups affiliated with Dwighthall.org
   • Content can be made viewable only by members of a sub-group
   • Manage membership either openly or by invitation only
7. Highly granular permissioning system tied to User Login
   • Admin controllable pre registration of membership list
   • Admin controllable open or closed registration on site or for specific gropus
   • Admin controllable view/edit access controls per posting type on site
8. Powerful Admin controllable email newsletter management (yaamny newsletter)
   • Allow members to subscribe / unsubscribe through website and email links
   • Allow management of multiple newsletters and users to manage which newsletters they are subscribed to
   • Allow event listings or news announcements to be easily selected for inclusion in email announcement
   • Adapt to local and major email service provider (Yahoo.com, aol.com etc) spam filters
   • When creating a newsletter:
     • Simple select / unselect of latest content and upcoming events
     • select / unselect of email lists
     • simplified salutation and closing form
     • simplified mailing reporting
     • Auto list cleanup from expired / bounce email addresses
     • Auto profile update link embedded in all emails
     • Newsletter adapted to not trigger major email service provider spam filters
9. Admin controllable section creation through the front end
10. Admin controllable Section list creation
11. Automatic section lists of all content
12. Dynamic search of all posted content on site
13. WYSIWYG collaborative publishing manager 
    • Show history of Posting edits and editors to easily show last modification date and user name of edit
14. Staff and Member Profiles (Facebook)
    • Allow Users to create and update their own profiles
      • project / category affiliation
      • personal bulletin board / comment page
    • Enable view of member profiles sorted by project / category affiliations.
    • Allow Administrators to give admin / editor privileges to specific members
15. Group and Organization (Entity) Profiles (GroupBook)
    • Allow Users to create and update Group profiles
      • Affiliate Type / Category affiliation
      • Group WYSIWYG-style page
16. Admin control of editor groups
    • Allow Administrators to give admin / editor / coordinator (post only) edit and view privileges to specific members
    • Admin ability to create individual sub group affiliations for coordinators and members
    • Different content can be viewed by members vs. non-members
    • Optional site administrator notification and / or approval step for all new posts
    • Ability to add arbitrary “tags” to any post and add the ability to browse all content using user defined “tags” (like Flikr)
17. Admin free form control of Main Menu to link to any internal or external pages with custom link labels
18. Site Searchable by keywords
19. AJAX style display and control upgrades
20. Display RSS feeds
21. A continually enhanced and upgraded service

Technical Features Coming Soon

1. Allow users to reserve and pay for events
2. Online event reservations
3. Online event / dues / subscriptions payments with credit card or Paypal (separate charges for merchant account and bank fees)
4. Significant UI improvements to Newsletter Management including
   • Auto list clean up
   • User controlled and admin controlled mail reporting and audit trails
5. Add photo upload to staff, member and user profiles for a FaceBook experience
6. Allow site managers to print reservation and paid reservation lists for events
7. Provide centralized membership contact management with online access available to any authorized Client administrators
8. Fully developed Photo Gallery
9. Improved admin control of editor groups
   • Ensure non-approved posters have a post delay and notification to admin email
   • Easy web based admin interface
   • Removal of sections in favor of dynamic tagging and pre-defined search lists
10. Member log-in for restricted access
11. Include an electronic broadcast channel as well as bulletin board and discussion tools
12. User driven creation of Ad-hoc affinity groups
13. Customizable Classified Ads
14. Customizable security control levels
15. Customized look and feel with personalize banner, colors, etc. **Any level of customized look and feel can be delivered for additional cost
16. All component services can be individually enabled or disabled
17. Ability to send and receive content from any web location (RSS content syndication)
18. Public research gallery and posting area
    • Create a custom format page that certain editors can update directly from the web to describe special research
    • Provide a document gallery where people can upload articles or research data to support community based learning research
19. Online reservations for rooms or classes.
    • Create custom calendar (hourly) display for resources that shows free / busy time and who has made a reservation
20. Front end User Custom Form creation and data display through website
    • Membership Application

    • Contact Us, email sign up, Class Surveys, reservations and other interactive web Forms

21. Subscription Sign up page and access to premium content
22. Content and feature syndication systems (to spread content to other venues)
23. Banner advertising management
24. Advanced search engine optimization and search engine submission
25. Advanced web traffic analytics tools

Current Site Installations

• First beta site - http://www.yaamny.net - exists 100% on community participation
• There is no central organization at all at this site; the content is produced entirely from the membership and it receives 10 posts a week.
• To see other existing sites using our system, see our network