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Connections Online 4.0 Migration Webinar I
Wednesday May 13th at
1:30 EST
This 30-minute training webinar highlights the new functionality of Connections Online 4.0. Click here to register…
Connections Online 4.0 Migration Webinar II
Wednesday May 27th at 1:30 EST
This 60-minute training webinar dives deeper into an overall “how to use” Connections Online 4.0. Click here to register…
Jim Cardwell’s Educational Webinar
Tuesday May 26th at
1:30 EST
This 30 minute discussion is entitled Inconsistent Project Management – Is there a way to make this work better? The objective of this session is to share a new tool that we have developed to provide your Sponsors, Project Leaders and Team Members guidance on each step of the project management process. It will help you build the kind of consistency and predictability you are looking for.
Click here to register…
Past Educational Webinar Recordings
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2009 Users Roundtable
June 14-16
This year’s Users Roundtable will be held in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Hotel. We have reserved a block of rooms for only $69 per night, plus taxes. We will hold a kick-off dinner on Sunday, June 14th. The User Roundtable will be from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Monday, June 15th and from 8:00 a.m. to Noon on Tuesday, June 16th. Please call Linda Schmidt at 800-395-1410 or email her at lschmidt@cardwellgroup.com for more information or to register for the User Roundtable and to secure a hotel room. An agenda for the User Roundtable will be sent soon to those who have already registered.
Informational Webinar
If you know someone outside of your company who may be interested in learning more about Connections Online, we have an informational webinar scheduled on May 12th at 1:30 EST. To register Click here. |
In January 2009, we announced the migration from Connections Online 3.2 to 4.0. Since that announcement, we have completed a number of upgrades and are scheduling more. In fact, between new users and migrations, the number of users has doubled in the past four months. Our clients are very happy with the new features and functionality.
If you have not already done so, and are ready to migrate to 4.0, please contact Karla Norwood at 800.395.1410. For more information regarding what has changed with 4.0, you are welcome to join one of our Connections Online 4.0 Migration webinars. (See Monthly Calendar of Webinar Events link below.)
Jim Cardwell’s April Educational Webinar “No Surprises” Tom O’Shea, CEO of Aspire FCU, Speaker
In many organizations, performance appraisals are generally dreaded, but people are required to do them anyway. Aspire Federal Credit Union President and CEO, Tom O’Shea, was the speaker for our “No Surprises” webinar, which took place on Thursday, April 23, 2009, providing some interesting, best-practice insight on the following issues…
- What is it about the performance evaluation process that makes it so challenging?
- How do you make this experience valuable to the employee, boss and organization?
- What key lessons can be shared?
Click here to read the complete summary of the presentation. To listen to the recorded webinar for Tom O’Shea’s “No Surprises” appraisal presentation Click here.
This month’s Educational Webinar will be on Tuesday, 1:30 PM, May 26th, so please mark your calendar.
User Roundtable Agenda Highlights
Some of our topics this year will include:
§ How We Used Connections Online to Organize & Execute our Credit Union Name Change. (A complicated process touching the Board, employees, members, and community)
Erinn Heckstall – Aspire Federal Credit Union
§ Communicating Connections Online Throughout the Organization Using the “Playbook” concept
Nancy Richardson – Jeanne D’arc Credit Union
§ Group discussion on the Role of the Connections Online Coordinator Bring examples of your challenges and successes!
§ What is Performance? – Jim Cardwell - Cardwell
§ Building a High-Impact Reward System – Chris Cardwell – Cardwell Consulting
§ Upcoming Features – Bryan Siders – Sypher Technology
§ Tips and Techniques – Karla Norwood - Cardwell
§ Business advisory session – Group Discussion
Client Care Notes
To view previous Connections Online Newsletters, Click here for the link to all of our past newsletters.
General Technology Questions
1. How do you measure up-time? On March 13th, 2009, we began using a new uptime monitoring application that allows us to share our uptime statistics with our customers. You can see current and historical uptime statistics back to that date by going to http://go.col4.com/status.
2. Has Connections Online achieved SAS70 certification? We use Peak 10 data centers which are SAS 70 type II compliant. More information can be found at http://go.col4.com/sas70
3. What is the back-up process? All communication with Connections Online 4.0 servers is encrypted using an AES 128-bit SSL certificate or stronger forms of encryption. Data is backed up nightly, both on the servers and to off-site backup locations. Off-site backups are encrypted and stored on Amazon S3 servers for maximum redundancy and availability.
4.0 Tips of the Month
We’ve recently had a number of inquiries on setting up your network for related links to work. The relevant Connections Online Forum post is entitled: Sharing files for Related Links with Web Sharing on Windows Server 2003. Bryan Siders has written a very detailed explanation on how to do this, including screen shots, and placed it on our Forum. If interested, please register and view: http://www.connectionsonline.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2 76&PN=1
We’ve also had questions about the Remember Me feature on the login. Here is the detail on using this feature:
§ The remember me option only works if, when you are done using Connections Online, you close the window without hitting the sign out link at the top of the page. If you sign out, that clears the remember me option and requires you to log in the next time you open Connections Online. To help clarify this, a confirmation message may be added that reminds the user about this when the sign out link is clicked.
§ If you have a bookmark that opens the Connections Online application, it must not link to the Login page directly (my.connectionsonline.net/Login.aspx?…;). You may link to the root of the application (my.connectionsonline.net/) or any other page in Connections Online (my.connectionsonline.net/default.aspx?i=…;), but linking to the Login page will look like it is forcing you to log in again.
You must have cookies enabled for our site. If cookies are not saved by your web browser, it will not remember who you are the next time you open the site. Check with your IT staff if you feel this may be the case.
Monthly Calendar of Webinar Events Link:
http://www.connectionsonline.net/ShowNews.aspx?id=245
Connections Online
24481 Detroit Road, Suite 300
Cleveland, OH 44145
(440) 892-1410 or (800) 395-1410
www.connectionsonline.net
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