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SMPTE Section Leadership Webinar:

SMPTE Website and Database overview (Oct 5, 2011)

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SECTIONS WEBINAR:

WEBSITE AND DATABASE OVERVIEW5 OCTOBER 2011

ROBERTA GORMAN

Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers

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Changes to SMPTE.org

On August 3, SMPTE launched a new database and website, based on open source software. We chose to use open sourced software because of portability, and community. It’s cost-effective and the community is always making improvements to the software to benefit all users.

– The database portion is a program called CiviCRM, which we have integrated with the website.

– The website is built on a Drupal platform, and that is what we will be discussing today for the most part.

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List of topics

• Section Email and friends lists

– How they work

– Access to the lists

– The unsubscribe function

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• New functions and goals

• The Section web pages

– What’s coming

– Training and migration

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Section Email list

• The functionality of the Section email list has not

changed from the user point of view. You will still

have an email alias that you can use to communicate

with your Section members.

• As in Kavi, you can use the list from any email client.

• There may be up to a 15-minute delay before a

message is sent or received, as a script runs every 15

minutes to verify authorized senders.

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Access , List content and subject lines

• The Chair, Sec’t/Treas and Section Managers will be authorized users of the list.

• The list is built to only draw current and graced members of your Section. Should you wish to send a special invitation to lapsed members, ask for an additional list as you need it.

• The subject line of the email will be prepended with the list name. It would look like [list name] Subject line or

[New York] SMPTE November meeting notice

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Subject line and the unsubscribe function

• Currently, we are building an unsubscribe function

for these lists that will take users to their SMPTE My

Account page to unsubscribe from these emails,

should they wish to do so.

• They will also be able to re-subscribe in the SMPTE

My Account page.

• Until this function is completed, please add a short

unsubscribe message provided by headquarters.

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We built the new SMPTE.org to be a more user-

friendly interface, able to accommodate more

information and video in a cleaner, easier to navigate

interface.

As such, this is a work in progress, and constructive

commentary is always welcomed while we continue

to improve the content.

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The Section web pages

Our goals with the Section web pages were to

provide a template and consistent brand image and

functionality, while allowing Sections to update their

own information and add their own touches to the

pages.

New visitors to SMPTE.org should be able to look at

The Section pages and know immediately that this is

a SMPTE page.

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What’s new and different?

• There are many options for navigation on the right

hand side of the Section page, including a home

page, events pages, officer listings, past meetings,

calendar, information on membership, videos, etc.

• You can personalize your pages within the SMPTE

framework. We ask that you keep within the color

scheme as shown.

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What are the training plans?

• We plan to start with the Sections that have

already migrated to Drupal. For those Sections we

will be providing online training, as well as written

instructions to help you navigate your Section

pages.

• Training will be scheduled for November after the

SMPTE Annual Tech conference.

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What are the transition plans?

• Once we get the Sections that are already on

Drupal up and running, we will ask for volunteers

to transition the remainder of the Sections over,

starting in January 2012.

• To volunteer, please email Roberta at

[email protected]

• The transition and training should be complete by

March 2012 – before NAB.

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Questions?

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