Oct 19, 2007Creating Blogging Content
It is important to select the right tools for your web-publishing project. For your organization's main website, a full-featured Content Management System is invaluable. A CMS allows a large number of contributors to post content without having to know programming languages. For your blog, one of...
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Apr 1, 2007Varieties of Membership Management
Before you can make your membership management program more effective, you need to decide exactly why you have one.
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Mar 24, 2007Membership Management Software vs. CRM
By: Michael Stein
What is the difference between CRM and Membership
Management? Isn't the latter just CRM for a member-based organization?
The answer is: not really. Membership is where CRM meets
Business Process Management. Typically we find that Membership is...
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Mar 19, 2007Organic Nonprofit SEO
SEO - Search Engine Optimization - has been a consulting hotspot for years. Everyone wants their website to come up near the top of the first page on major search engines. How is this magic done? A few years back, SEO professionals emphasized keywords...
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Oct 3, 2005Bread and Butter 2.0
By: Michael Stein There has been an explosion of interest dedicated to "Web2.0" -- which is mostly a social-networking sites aimed at helping users collaborate and share items of interest. However, there is disconnect between the advantages of the new web technologies and the business...
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Aug 25, 2005A Model Approach to Membership Managment
Many times the main purpose of membership management software is lost. Many of us think --
“Isn’t it just supposed to help nonprofit organizations keep track of their members?” In reality, most organizations use membership management software, or a Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) tool, for...
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Members Only Announcements
Oct 6, 2008OS/MOsys NewsMailer puts web content into readers' hands instantaneously.
Now your community can receive the content they rely on you to provide as soon as you post it to your website. The new OS/MOsys NewsMailer provides an effortless way for Members Only users to push News Articles and Press Releases from their Orchid based sites out to topic based groups of...
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Sep 1, 2008Service Pack 9 Readies for its Debut
For the last few months we've had a few users up and running on Members Only Service Pack 9. It's looking good and within the next month we plan to start rolling it out to all of our users. Here's a taste of some of the the goodies you can expect to see this fall.
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Apr 1, 2008Esther Merves takes charge of Members Only training
We're excited to announce that Esther Merves, formerly the Membership director of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, has joined Members Only to take charge of our user training.
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Feb 15, 2008National Fluid Power Association selects Members Only and Orchid
After a lengthy process of soliciting proposals, reviewing demos, and evaluating vendors' technical and business approaches, the NFPA has selected OS/MOsys (Orchid Suites/Members Only System as the platform for their new website and association management system.
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Sep 3, 2007Mali Health Organizing Project
Michael's winter vacation to West Africa has had a lasting effect, as he this week agreed to be the webmaster and a board member for a community development project in Mali.
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Feb 21, 2007Members Only and Windows Vista
Windows Vista is now commercially available, and of course our users want to know if Members Only will run under the new operating system. Members Only CTO Jochen Heyland says the short answer to that question is YES.
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Feb 8, 2007Software Giveaway to budget-strapped NGOs
Members Only Software, Inc is announcing a new program today to provide its software free to a limited number of eligible organizations.
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Feb 1, 2007Members Only Allies with Orchid Suites Inc
Members Only Software, Inc is pleased to announce that we have entered into a strategic alliance with Orchid Suites Inc., a D.C. based developer of Content-Management and Community-Building Tools.
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Aug 1, 2007Service Pack 8 Documentation
Service Pack 8 include some powerful new features, such as the Members Only Bulletin Board, and a new, flexible way of searching and retrieving records from the CRM. See the complete feature list here.
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