Members Case Study

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Primary Goals

  • Creation of secure members-only website
  • Membership management with multiple levels of login privileges
  • Full online speaker, event, and tracking management
  • Member forum to facilitate collaboration

Website Features

  • Automated signup process
    • Members automatically approved if their email address matches a pre-approved domain name
  • Personalized member pages
    • Pages greet members by name, and display content appropriate to their membership level
  • Member profile management
    • Member can update username, password, email address, name, title, phone, time zone, and contact preferences (for receiving automated emails from the site)
  • Date and time converted to members local time zone
    • All events on site and all emails from site reflect members local time zone
  • Site activity metrics
    • Login time/date, company name, username, IP, and details of activity (downloads, attendance, etc.)
  • Special events management
    • Allow guest access to specific portions of the site
  • Email distribution system
    • Fine-grained control over membership mailing lists (select members by membership level, company name, by those who have registered for/ attended certain events, etc.)
    • System stores HTML and text versions of each email, along with all associated information (subject, date/time to send, mailing list, etc.), and applies a custom email template (matching site look & feel)