The WebSecretary™ WebSecretary™ Gets Results • WebSecretary ™ tools enable your organization to follow communication best practices • Get the word out with the Swiss Army Knife of Communication Tools: e-mail, e-invitation, e-volunteer, e-calendar, e-notices,  e-alerts, e-newsletter, e-press release, and a website to manage your communications • Improve the leadership experience of your board, executives, key leaders, members and volunteers • Enhance membership and staff retention, participation and growth • Maintain a secure, timely, state of the art communications system with the simple, well organized, and powerful content management system – managed via a website from anywhere, 24 hours a day • Stay informed with anytime, anywhere reports that track your membership totals, status of activities, participation, and volunteers • Manage your membership database online or share the load, each member can update their own contact information after entering their password • Leave key communication assets behind for the next group of leaders. • It is simple to use.  If you can send an email, you can use this technology.   Special Benefits • Enjoy a relationship with highly experienced professionals who understand your operational challenges, not just the technical tools. • Communicate with many platforms: Web browsers, Cell Phones (text messaging), PDA’s (handhelds), etc • No installation software to buy or software maintenance charges. • No technical experts to hire or waiting on other people’s priorities. • The WebSecretary™ is offered by a Professional Service Provider: Not dependent on volunteers • Our free Assistance Center helps you use this service effectively • Your activity and event content can be kept current by your members with only a web browser with no programming knowledge required Your success or failure may hinge on a single communication.  Improving communications provides significant returns to organizations, businesses and individuals.   It is often the difference between success or failure in a venture or program. "The Internet has reached into–and, in some cases, reshaped–just about every important realm of modern life. It has changed the way we inform ourselves, amuse ourselves, care for ourselves, educate ourselves, work, shop, bank, pray and stay in touch." [Source: Pew Research Center Internet Project - Trends 2005] The WebSecretary™ is an Internet-based communications service with solutions to common problems. Most organizations face challenges such as: Membership/client retention and growth Attracting leadership talent Ensuring every member or affiliate receives timely date sensitive information  Generating income that supports your organization Having obsolete information on your website, if you have one  Using efficient communication tools to deliver messages for these purposes above The WebSecretary™ communications service can quickly provide your organization with effective communications tools: e-newsletters, e-invitations, mailing lists, and much more to manage communication between leadership, members, affiliates, and clients. It helps your team work together more efficiently and effectively. “You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” -- Babe Ruth  WebSecretary™ services require minimal technical expertise and can improve your organization’s retention and growth rates!  The WebSecretary™ service may also generate additional income for your organization by enabling the advertising facilities.  If you can use email and browse the Internet, you can use WebSecretary™ products and services.  The WebSecretary™ was created by a team of seasoned experienced professionals. The WebSecretary™ product is well built, supported, and will help your organization overcome real problems.  The team from Keep In Touch Systems, Inc is from Silicon Valley and has over 100 years total experience with management consulting, product design and technical support in high technology industry.  Prior work experience of the founders is from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Intuit, and Schwab Online.  The Keep In Touch Systems, Inc team is educated in computer science, engineering, business, and law from Stanford, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Brandeis Universities and our President has received the Excellence in Technology Management Award from  the National Technical Association.   The WebSecretary™ is over five years in the making and testing, created by an outstanding team to solve real issues, and designed to make your organization more professional, cost effective, and organizationally efficient.  Quicklinks: Client Site: Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto Client Site: Dumbarton Dialogues Community Project Off Site: FTC Defining what is Commercial Email Product Scenario: The Last Minute Change KITS: Features and Benefits   Quotation Knowledge management is the use of technology to make information relevant and accessible wherever that information may reside. To do this effectively requires the appropriate application of the appropriate technology for the appropriate situation. -- www.microsoft.com/exchange/ community/lotus_km.asp [1998, December 20]