Instructions - Explore the following pages:
  • "Using the CIS to Serve Your Community" for general information about what is possible;
  • "About Us (Public)" to see a Demo of what a public-facing page might look like;
  • [Login Required] "Community Dashboard (Private)" to see the password-restricted community Dashboard
  • [Login Required] "Community Manager Dashboard" for a central place to add/edit/moderate community content.

Using the CIS to Serve Your Community

One Community: Many 'Communities of Interest'

Serving your community means serving information to different parts of your community, including the anonymous public. The CIS excels at both showing different information to people (usually by "role"), and accepting information from different people. Your community might break out into the following:


Public
can read: only public pages
can write: none

Community Members
can read: public pages + community pages
can write: some community pages material (blogs)

Government & Industry
can read: public pages
can write: consultation/referral submission forms

Stewardship Office
can read: public pages + stewardship material (TUS/GIS)
can write: stewardship material

Economic Development
can read: public pages + CED material
+ Consultation submissions + TUS/GIS

can write: CED material + TUS/GIS

Council Members
can read: public pages + community pages + CED material
+ Consultation material

can write: council material

Possible Data Types and Views

The following are just some of the data "Views" that clients have asked us to build into their Community Information Systems. Note that by Views we also mean that the system handles logging in of user, adding content, moderating content, and creation of lists/tables/maps of data.

  • Community notices: events and news
  • Housing: availability, application submissions, maintenance request form
  • Community calendar
  • Community photo sharing
  • Youth Centre Pages
  • Youths blog pages
  • Job postings and applications
  • Economic Development Opportunities (tenders)
  • Language revitalization (use of TUS in school curriculum)

All these systems can be (1) open to the public, or (2) have limited access by user who then needs a password and to be assigned the correct "role", e.g. community members.