Provide your customers with one click access to your pages. Each social media site has its own button you can put on your site. You can add a “like us on Facebook” button to your website here, and a “follow us on Twitter” button here. Also, you can add direct “like” and “follow” buttons so web visitors can subscribe without leaving your website.
Send an email mentioning your pages every time you have a deadline or new season starting. That way, anyone not following your updates will have a reminder to “follow” or “like” you. You can also add links in your signature, to increase your social reach through email.
Provide links to your social networks in your activity guide. For example, you could put a Facebook and Twitter icon at the bottom of every page of your activity guide. They’re easy to see and even easier to click.
Mention your social media pages in your flyers, posters, and brochures that you distribute. People can look it up later, or you can reference it when answering questions. To get really creative, try posting a QR code so people can scan and instantly visit your social networks from their smartphones.
To inform people, you have to mention it more than once and in multiple places.
On June 7th, LOGIS hosted a meeting for the six Assessing Cities who are using the Property Data System (PDS). These meetings are a useful communications tool between LOGIS PDS support staff and the member cities.
Of the many items discussed, two items rose to the top of the priority list of system enhancements. Top priority with a due date of Labor Day 2012 is the integration of a new module called T-Calc. T-Calc is a complicated formula used by the Minnesota Department of Revenue (DOR) for calculating Sales Ratios.
The second priority is the development of the Commercial / Industrial / Multi Family Computer Aided Mass Appraisal (C/I/MF CAMA) for the valuation of nonresidential properties. Commercial / Industrial appraisers from each of the members will attend a meeting hosted at LOGIS on July 11th to start the design process and set expectations of what is needed.
Congratulations to the Utility Billing staff and thank you for all your efforts during this transition.
Twice a year LOGIS public safety support staff attends an important conference hosted by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). The conference is the “BCA Vendor Conference” and includes a number of presentations by BCA IT staff. Topics include BCA organizational changes, projects, standards, data sharing, security and contracts. These topics are all very important to the LOGIS users of the Motorola Public Safety Systems – CAD, Mobiles and Records. Project presentations by BCA IT staff generally include: Integrated Search Service (ISS), Computerized Criminal History System (CCH), Criminal Justice Reporting System (CJRS), Statute Service and eCharging. The goal of these BCA projects or systems is to make best use of the data and technology side of the public safety arena and help facilitate the work of public safety professionals. LOGIS staff must be knowledgeable about each of the BCA’s projects in order to best interface with each one.
LOGIS Upgrade to JDE Release 9.1 has started!!
We are beginning the upgrade to the latest JDE release at this time. The servers have arrived, and as soon as the system software installation is completed the JDE software will be installed. After some initial testing by the LOGIS Support staff, we plan to give access to this release to the membership volunteers interested in getting an advanced preview of the changes in the software.
Your recent reports will show as icons on the bottom of the screen – the corner of the icon will be green if the report has completed, blue if it is processing, and red if it ended in error. The best thing? No more clicking ‘Find’ to see if it has completed – it will change from blue to green automatically!
You can freeze grid columns (like Excel) and Hide/Unhide columns in the grid with a couple mouse clicks.
Auto Suggest – this will allow you to begin typing an Employee, Vendor or Customer Name in an Address Book field (previously you could only type an Address Number in these fields) and a list of matches will appear, similar to ‘Google searching’.
Enhanced Queries – this functionality allows users to create and save criteria for typical queries that they may use frequently.