Community Tools

The Community Module of the Encompass platform helps you build engaging online communities for your institution. Beginning with our first generation social networking tools, users can network with other community members, share information and discover new connections. Our event, giving, fundraising and forms tools integrate with your online community allowing you to customize and target invitations and communications to a receptive audience.

Social Networking

Members of your community can search for others to make connections. Users can exchange messages with other members and know when their friends are online. Members can populate their own background information, class notes and photos to find additional networking opportunities. And later this year members will also be able to create their own blogs and include live content from other sites.

Fundraising & Giving

We make it easy for you to create, market and collect donations for your fundraising and giving campaigns. Our direct, trusted link to Verisign and dozens of other online payment services gives you the peace of mind you need with the upmost in simplicity. Some communities also collect dues and admissions fees in an automated fashion directly from their site.

Email Marketing

It's one thing to have a site people can visit but it's quite another to also proactively take live content from the site and push it out to your members via email. Our tools make it incredibly easy for you to design one-off or recurring outbound communications, like newsletters, that can be auto-populated with the latest news and content. All you do is approve the final version and everyone will be in the know.

Event Management

Plan, promote and accept online registrations and payments with our Event management module. You are even able to provide a current attendee lists for your latest event - a great tool to build excitement and registrations.

Groups, Subgroups & Chapters

Making connections and setting up groups can include everyone from a graduating class or everyone who lived on the 2nd floor of a residence hall in 1995. User-defined groups give large audiences a tangible way to keep things relevant. Administrators can manage user-defined groups.

Blogs

Everyone has an opinion. OpenProfile, a new feature of Encompass, includes a powerful blogging feature for members of your online community. No longer will member pages be comprised of static demographic content. Site or by member, users will be able to post, comment and hyperlink to user-generated content. Our tool will support both RSS-publish and subscribe, meaning members can include content from other sites directly into their pages.

Dashboard & Reporting

Providing access to interactive reporting tools gives you the ability to continuously improve and tailor your communications and community for the most optimal results. Email tracking, user metrics, reconciliation and accounting reports for giving make administrating your community simple and efficient.

eCommerce

Using our trusted and secure connection with mainstream online bill payment services, you can collect fees from members of your community. This simplifies event management, registration and dues or tuition fee collection offering an "always-open" mechanism for busy lives.

Career Center

Build connections for graduating students with career networking, mentoring and job posting features.