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Login got a facelift!

May 12th, 2010 by Corey Funderburk
 

Two new features have been added to the login screen!

You can now have your password emailed to you in the event you’ve forgotten it without having to call into our office and explain yourself to the lovely Pangean on the other end… AND from the login screen you can now reset your password! We even included a nifty button that will generate a random, super-secure password for you if you’re not feeling especially creative.


As always, feel free to give us a call if you have any questions about these new features!

 
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Attention Overwhelmed Service Coordinators!

February 25th, 2010 by Corey Funderburk
 

Feeling overwhelmed by all the work that goes into running a successful resident services program?

Well, the National Resident Services Collaborative is here to offer help! They have recently added some exciting and helpful material to the Best Practices & Training section of their website! Be sure to check it out for information ranging from planning and executing resident services programs, peer network exchanges, and specifically, a revised and expanded practitioner’s manual.

Here’s a direct link to the practitioner’s manual to get you started right away:

Creating Opportunities for Families through Resident Services: A Practitioner's Manual, Revised and Expanded Edition, September 2009.

 
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What’s that link for “Ad-Hoc Reports” all about?

March 30th, 2009 by Corey Funderburk
 

You asked and we listened. You now have the option to create a report of residents based on any of the demographic information available in FamilyMetrics! You want a list of all of your females? Bam! A list of residents aged 2-15? Done! Only females aged 2-15 who speak Belorussian, moved in during 2008, were referred by Management and qualify for Free and Reduced Lunch? Shizam! The possibilities seem endless…

You know what’s even better? Besides being able to just get a list of these residents, you can also run them through all of the other reports in the system. You know that eclectic group mentioned above? You can run a Property Service Log report on just those residents… or find out if they had Incidents/Violations… or check out their Education Outcomes…

And guess what else? Drum roll… all the reports now have drilldowns! No more guessing which 5 residents had that service…

We hope you all really enjoy this new functionality. We worked hard on it and are excited for everyone to take a look. To get to these reports, click on the “Ad Hoc Reports” link in Personal Space. You’ll want to select the correct property(s) and make sure to choose a default date. Other than that, the choice is up to you – play around, check out the options available. Once you get the ad-hoc group you’re looking for, try viewing a list of the residents or running them through a report. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, call or email tech support and we'll happily answer them!

Oh yeah… one more item we fit in… we added the ability to delete a Program Attendance. Have any lying around you never meant to enter? Well now you can get rid of them! Just click “Edit” next to Program Attendance, select the appropriate record and at the bottom you’ll see the save option for “Delete and Close.” It’s that easy!

 
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Blog syndication: How cool is RSS!!!

March 4th, 2009 by Kraig Kuipers
 
RSS is the coolest technology many people haven’t heard of… and don’t feel ashamed if that includes you. I just learned that fewer than 30 percent of Internet users actually use RSS. But RSS is increasingly central to the blogging movement.

If you want to learn more about RSS you can do so here and here. For now, let me just say this: RSS is essentially a news wire service. It’s a delivery system that can be used by anyone interested in reading the FamilyMetrics Blog.

Pangea Foundation uses RSS to automatically notify you when we’ve added information to the FamilyMetrics Blog. RSS basically goes out and tells you, “Hey, there’s something new here. Check it out!”

You can subscribe to the FamilyMetrics Blog RSS feed by plugging this feed URL into a specialized Web service or software program. If you’re a subscriber to the feed and the FamilyMetrics Blog has been recently updated—say with information about a new feature—the RSS reader grabs the latest content, and voila! It’s delivered right where you want it. The information can be displayed in an email message, a Web page, a specialized reader, or any one of a number of other formats.

Here’s another cool thing about RSS: You choose to subscribe to an RSS feed, which means you can also choose to unsubscribe—whenever you want. As a result, RSS feeds cut through the piles of spam and junk mail that can clutter your inbox.

But that’s not all RSS delivers. By subscribing to the FamilyMetrics Blog RSS feed, you don’t have to take the extra step of dropping by the FamilyMetrics Blog every day. That’s because the full text of each of our blog posts is included in our feeds.

Don’t get me wrong! Many of you will indeed want to visit the FamilyMetrics Blog every spare moment you have.

Because it’s so unbelievably awesome!

But, let’s just say this: RSS gives you options.

And who doesn’t like to have options... right?
 
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