Civic Communicator™ is a Hosted Application Service that provides a rich environment for creating and managing comprehensive public participation web sites. As a Hosted Application Service Civic Communicator™ has many distinct advantages, including: There's Nothing to Install or Configure!
All you need to use Civic Communicator™ is a web browser and an Internet connection. There's nothing extra to download, install, or configure. Everything you need is already setup for you so Civic Communicator™ is ready to work when you are. It's Cross-Platform
Civic Communicator™ doesn't care what kind of computer you or your site visitor's have. Civic Communicator™ is a cross-platform application so it will work with all major web browsers whether you're using a PC or a Mac. It Gives You Access to Unprecedented Administrative Controls
Civic Communicator™ is driven by a variety of very powerful technologies that work together to give you complete control over your public participation system. These administrative controls are completely cross-platform independent. Manage your public participation sites using Internet Explorer or FireFox on a PC. Our Mac friends can manage their sites using FireFox on Mac OS X.
It Handles Updates
Automatically & Transparently
Today's desktop software is very complex and barely a day goes by before you have to download an upgrade or apply some sort of patch. Civic Communicator™ is different in this regard. With Civic Communicator™, you never have to worry about downloading and installing the latest enhancements or updates. Civic Communicator™ seamlessly deploys all updates and enhancements without disturbing you or your work. It's Always There!
Like a trusted friend, Civic Communicator™ is always there for your constituents- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. It's accessible around-the-clock from any Internet enabled computer. This means that you and the public can use Civic Communicator™ regardless of where you are or what time it is.
Technologies Used: ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, MySQL, XHTML, XML Configuration But then again, who really cares. Civic Communicator works for you so you don't have to worry about the technology behind it. You can safely leave that up to our software engineers. Of course, if you're really into that stuff drop us a line.
Site Administrators:
Civic Communicator's administrative features work in the widest array of browsers. It will even work on a Mac OS X with the FireFox browser. Internet Explorer 5.5, or later (Windows) FireFox 0.9, or later (Windows or MAC OS X) Netscape 7.0, or later (Windows or MAC OS X) Mozilla 1.0, or later (Windows or MAC OS X) Internet Access (Broadband connection recommended)
Site Visitors:
Civic Communicator doesn't care what kind of computer your site visitors use. Civic Communicator project sites are designed to be cross-platform applications so they will work with all major web browsers whether you're using a PC or a Mac.
IT Support Requirements:
Because project site administrators do not need to use HTML, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, or any other “in the box” product with Civic Communicator Applications, Civic Communicator places no support obligations on your IT staff.
Training:
Civic Communicator is so simple to use that very little training is required to be up and running. However, we do offer online training sessions every month to assist our users to discover other opportunities the system may offer for their projects. We also offer organizational training options should your staff desire it.
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