InfoLoop’s Community-Building Suite (InfoLoopCMS) is built around Open Source CMS solutions, a Content Management System is an easy to use tool for building and maintaining the content of your website without the need for any web-programming skills. InfoLoopCMS can also integrate easily with existing websites, letting you increase the impact of your web site by adding powerful features that will help you build and communicate with your online community.

InfoLoop’s Community-Building Software Suite includes a wide selection of features, all of which are designed to encourage your residents or customers to provide their email addresses enabling you to contact them electronically and provide them with more information.

Our Community-Building Software Suite includes many helpful features:

-CMS – Open Source Content Management System built with WordPress, WordPress MU or Drupal depending on your needs. In addition to making it easy to build and maintain your website, responsibility for maintaining the content on your website can shared throughout your organization. Password access can be limited to a single page or entire sections of the site, and preferences can be set to require that changes by certain users be approved before being posted.

-Auto-Alert Feature — Visitors to your site can click on any page, provide their email address, and receive email alerts whenever that web page is updated. The email addresses provided are automatically added to your email list.

-Calendaring Software – Assigned users with password access can post events and deadlines on your calendar. When posted items are set to public view, they appear automatically on your website. Other items can be posted for internal or private use, and appear only to those with the access needed to view it. This a great way for organizations in a community or departments in a company, to avoid scheduling conflicts, and provide those who need or want to know with quick alerts about upcoming events or deadlines.

-Post Events and Notices – A utility that easily enables you to upload notices that can appear on the home page of your website or wherever else you want it.

-Emergency (Text & Email) Notification System – (For Public Sector Clients) Residents can sign up to receive emergency alerts via email or text-message delivered to their cell phones. This is great way to send out snow emergency reminders or school closing alerts.

-Auto-Dialer Administrator – (For Public Sector Clients) Residents can make sure their current phone number is in your auto-dialer database. The number is checked against your existing database so no duplicate numbers are added. A confirmed email address is required to add a phone number to the system.

-”My Town/Business” – This feature encourages visitors to sign up to set preferences for receiving email or text message alerts and notices, and works in unison with the Calendaring, Emergency Notification System, the Auto-Dialer Administrator and the Local Classifieds features.

-”In the News” — An easy utility that enables you to quickly upload links to news articles about your business or public entity. This feature is an easy way to add fresh content to your website, and keeps visitors coming back for more.

-Local Classifieds – A flexible set of online tools so you can offer your residents or customers the opportunity to post free classified ads on your site. All postings require that the poster provide an email address. Nothing is posted unless its content is approved.

-Email Address List Builder – An easy email address list builder utility. Simply cut and paste email addresses into the utility’s box, and save them to your address list. Duplicates are automatically eliminated.

-Email Blast Software – An easy to use utility that lets you compose emails and send “email blasts” to the email addresses on your list. Every email automatically incorporates a link to let your recipients opt off your email list if the choose.

-Clerks Assistant — An InfoLoop powered service that makes the task of preparing and distributing public meeting agendas, minutes and supporting documents easy can be completely integrated with InfoLoopCMS. More information at ClerksAssistant.com.