October 25, 2008
Bala Cynwyd, PA – Schools strive to provide an exceptional education to all students and educators are constantly searching for new ways to involve students, their families, alumni and the community. At Franklin Road Academy, educators have implemented a tool that promotes involvement on a new level through a new medium.
Frapanthers.com, Franklin Road’s website is used to communicate information about the school to the public. To target and connect with even more people, a new Portal System has been implemented on the website. A Portal System allows you to create multiple folders and subfolders to organize your website and control which users are given access to view and create various folders (or portals) within your site. Each Portal was created for a specific group of people and includes Parents, Students, Alumni and Teachers.
Within each Portal, user groups were created and are each made up of the type of member the Portal is named after. Each user has a user profile made up of a user name and password which allows them to access their Portal within the website. Only members of the user group assigned to the Portal can actually access the Portal. This provides excellent security and allows Franklin Road to post useful and private information such as Grades, Homework Assignments and other details about the school that apply specifically to users of the selected Portal.
The capability of having Portals and a website that can be created and edited by multiple users is possible because of GIM’s innovative software, InfoServeCM. InfoServeCM is a suite of smart content and knowledge collaboration tools that enables organizations to empower their existing web sites from static, brochure style sites to dynamic content-managed sites. GIM has assisted a number of organizations in expanding their websites from basic HTML to dynamic content managed environments.
One of the main benefits of using InfoServeCM is the ability of anyone to add or edit content on the website without possessing any programming skills or knowledge of HTML. This means it's easy to keep the site current and to constantly deliver fresh information to website viewers to encourage them to return on a daily basis.
"InfoServeCM's greatest strength is that it offers the functionality of what would be several individual software applications that would have to be purchased and implemented separately. InfoServeCM's users have the ease of cohesiveness and breadth of functionality that is not available at this value price elsewhere in the market," noted Eli Avershal, founder and president of Global Internet Management.
For more information or to schedule a demonstration of this ground breaking software, please visit www.gim.net or call 610.617.4515.