Microsites
Many associations and non-profits have Special Interest Groups (SIGs), Committees and Regional Groups. The Microsites product enables each group to manage their own web-presence, while retaining a cohesive look with the overall design ideology of your organisation. Our easy to use website wizard gives groups the power of web innovation while preserving the integrity of organisational logos and branding. Additionally, our Microsites module presents non-profits and associations an innovative opportunity to generate non-dues revenue by offering advertising and banner opportunities within their group websites.
Microsite Advantages
- Web site creation wizard allows easy access to site settings propelling the group administrator through the web site setup process
- No limits on site design choices enables organisations to keep control over branding and image.
- Advertising module encourages supplementary revenues by hosting one-click or rotating ads
- Built in website tracking and statistics give site administrators web traffic reports at a glance including page views and unique visitor demographics
- Integration with the Association Management System or the centralized group database platform.
- Functional add-ins such as a calendar feature which combine events from the AMS and those managed by the component
- Single source of website technology provides components with a one stop shop for site hosting and technical support
With advanced features such as assigning security permissions per page, WYSIWYG HTML editing and file system style content management, all users have the ability to manage website navigation, upload pictures and documents and revise website content in real time. Web content is optimized for search engine inquiries and available to a broader audience, thereby increasing traffic and exposure for your organisation.
Common Uses
- Offer each of your chapters, sections, or committees their own website so that the content stays in your organisation and you maintain control over your brand and messaging.
- Small organisations often use Microsites to run their entire organisation's website. The easy-to-use content management system has enough functionality to power your whole site and allow volunteers to contribute content so that small staffs are not overwhelmed.
- Create a new site just for an upcoming event or a special initiative and keep the conversation going long after the event ends. organisations use Microsites to provide a different look and navigation that supports the event and tie in with Resource Library to have an area to post all presentations and allow commenting.
Users love:
- Familiar Microsoft Windows Explorer-type of interfaces that make it easy to add content and modify navigation
- Built-in web statistics reporting, search, and banner ad spots
- Edit-from-the-page capabilities so that you can correct mistakes or add content right from the component website
- No technical skill required to add links, content or images
Organisations love:
- Community administrator can choose from a selection of themes that are in compliance with the styleguides of the organisation to maintain brand integrity
- Organisations can pre-populate model site with content and then replicate it so that new communities can be up and running immediately
- Keeps the continuity of the website system so that content can be pushed out to communities and aggregated so that users can search across all Microsites
Create microsites for a chapter, state or affiliated associations. Share the workload by allocating different administrators for each microsite.
Microsite can have similar branding to your community site or
Community site
Chapter site
Create a new design for chapter sites or
Community site
Chapter site
Create a microsite for a conference, large event or significant community.
Community site
Chapter site