Today, institutions and organizations are faced with new technological challenges to endorse the new communication methods their members are often already familiar with (email, social media, online payments and internet portals…). To help your organization to cope with this evolution, Orbit One wants to share its expertise in this branch:

•     Centralized data management for members, events, correspondence such as emails and letters
•     Allow your members to manage their own profile and data
•     Facilitate collaboration and document exchange
•     Automate membership fees and payments

Language

This event is in English, there is also a Dutch spoken edition on November 8th

Audience

This session is for industry associations, federations, institutes and other membership organizations and is intended to strategic decision makers such as :

Board members, General Secretary, IT managers, Communication department, Finance.

Agenda

• 13:30 Welcome, drink
• From 14:00 onwards:
  • Today's challenges and needs of membership organizations (By Damien Braeckman)
  • The future of membership organizations: Facilitate communication and collaboration with members using modern technologies (By Bart Van Coile)
  • Real-world examples using Microsoft technologies (By Damien Braeckman)
• 18:00 End of session + drinks and fingerfood

Speakers

Bart Van Coile
Member of Instituut van IAB (instituut voor Accountants en Belastingsconsulenten) executive comittee and president of the VABF (Eastern Flamish  federation for accountancy)

Linkedin:  http://be.linkedin.com/pub/bart-van-coile/10/828/a47

Damien Braeckman
Team Lead and Sr Project Manager at Orbit One

Twitter: @damienbraeckman
Linkedin: http://be.linkedin.com/in/damienbraeckman

More info:

Some topics we will cover and discuss:

• The future of membership organizations
• Centralizing all your members data
• Public website, intranet, extranet portals - when to use what?
• Document sharing and management systems
• Bulk and personalized email sending
• Keeping track of all correspondance with members
• Statistics and 360° view on members
• From paper to digital
  • What about signatures, registered mail?

• Business cases:
  • IAB: digital member-file and membership portal using Dynamics CRM and ClickDimensions
  • Recytyre: self-service portal and automatic declaration and invoicing
  • Education International: Membership fee & invoice automation using Dynamics CRM and SharePoint
  • IBR: Single sign-on for transparent access to webapplications

If you want to be part of this interactive session, please register. Seats are limited and interest is high.