Dear Manager,

We are pleased to send you our March 2009 newsletter - introducing our Payment Center Module, which we believe can save you a considerable amount of money and resources spent collecting rent and maintenance fees from tenants and residents. In these challenging times, every dollar saved is important, and we are proud to enable our clients to enjoy more cost savings and enhanced efficiency using MyBuilding.org.

Dear Manager,

The MyBuilding.org team hopes your new year is off to a great start! We are happy to introduce the first edition of the MyBuilding.org newsletter for board members, staff & property managers. This periodic newsletter will provide you with an overview of upcoming and available new features, as well as tips for maximizing the value of your property's MyBuilding.org service.


Green Building

MyBuilding.org is continuously seeking new ways to empower our clients to become more Green, and leverage the power of the Internet and the MyBuilding.org service to minimize waste of paper and time spent printing and distributing paper notices.

We would like to introduce 3 new features in the Green category:

Green Feature #`1:
Voice Broadcaster

Emails are cool; text messages are even better. But now, from your Manager's Consol, with the Voice Broadcast feature - you can type your message and broadcast it to your residents' phones; the Voice Broadcaster will automatically translate your text into voice and call all the residents and play the voice message. You can choose to send the broadcast to specific floors, unit lines, owners or renters, or all. You can also choose cell phones, home phones or both. This is yet another means to enhance communication and productivity through MyBuilding.org. Your service includes one free yearly broadcast - for emergencies, we don't want you to think twice about costs. Additional broadcasts are priced at $0.15 per call - you will not be charged for invalid numbers.

Green Feature #2:
Online Newsletter Distribution

Have a Newsletter or other periodic update (board minutes?) to distribute to your residents? Try the Newsletter feature from the Manager's Consol. It will allow you to instantly distribute your content to all residents' emails and automatically place the newsletter or document in an archive under the Building Info links.

Green Feature #3:
Opting Out of Paper notices

We know that you love using the mass-email capability to update your residents. We also know that some of you need to still print out paper notices and distribute them to all units. Many residents are happy to just receive the notices online - so we now enable them to choose to opt out of paper notices. You can see the list of such residents at your Manager's Consol, and encourage residents to sign up and reduce your monthly paper bills and time spent by building staff distributing those notices.


New Feature:
SMS Notifications Center

Everything has been said about text messaging and its benefits, and finally our Mobile Phone Text Messaging feature is out of Beta and in your sites. Every message you send through the site, can be received by the residents as a text message on their mobile phone. When residents register to the service, they can choose whether to receive messages via email or text message, or both. So residents that do not use a computer can still benefit from your Community Portal; and you can communicate effectively, at a click of a button, with your entire community. This feature can be accessed at the My Profile section, and every user can define which message they want to get, and where (Mobile phone, email, both).

When you use the "Send Message to All" feature, it sends your message as an email to all registered residents. It will then allow you to print the notice to residents that haven't registered yet - one for each unit.

Use the "Upload Doc" button on your manager's console.

In your manager's console, click on Categories under Maintenance Requests. You can then also differentiate categories available only for owners and not renters.

Go to Registrations in your manager's console, check "on"
the unregistered users and easily print out reminders for those units - and distribute to them. Do this once a month.

Use your Public Room Reservation button on your manager's consol. Easily add policy documents to each room - residents are required to review them before making a reservation.

Use the Newsletter feature in your manager's console, it will distribute the newsletter to all units that you set, and also post it on an archive on the site.

Utilize our handyman allocation feature by adding "Staff" users in your manager's console.

The Key Tracking module can track any type of key, just click "Add Special Key" on the Key Tracking page.

Under Users & Assets, click on Add/Edit users, find the unit that the board member resides at, and change its type to Board member, and set the permissions that you want for him/her. Those features will then be available in their newly accessible Manager's Console.

In the Employee Time Clock module, select the employee’s name and the period you would like the report for. Then export the report to Excel and sum up the number of hours under the hours column.