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vTools.Voting can be used to run officer elections for Councils

vTools.Voting supports Sections, Sub-Sections, Chapters, and Affinity Groups out of the box. However, it can also be used to run officer elections for Councils.  Please note, that since a typical Council officer election is larger and can be more complex, vTools.Voting administrator needs to be …

vTools Voting Overview

What it is
vTools.Voting is a free tool that enables volunteers to setup electronic ballots to allow members to submit votes in their Section, Sub-Section, Chapter, or Affinity Group officer elections online. Please note that this is different from the general IEEE elections. Based on the …

Adding tracking to your e-mail communications such as newsletters

If you want to add tracking to your newsletters, you can use Google Analytics for that.
Did you know that you can use free tools from Google to add tracking including open rate?
Here is how:
For tracking links:
https://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578
For tracking open rate:
https://email-tracking-with-google-analytics.com/
Please note …

Beta version of the new tool to report new officers or officer changes released

We are happy to announce that vTools.OfficerReporting, Beta version of the new tool to report new officers or officer changes, has been released. vTools.OfficerReporting is an enhancement of the existing form. It enables authorized geographic organizational unit volunteers to submit officer reporting on-line with automatic …

Updates to vTools Web Conferencing software

In January of 2011, DimDim was acquired by salesforce.com. As such, MGA is in the process of decommissioning DimDim and introducing a new remote conferencing tool. After evaluating many options for both cost and ease of use, WebEx has been selected. If you are familiar …

Sharing Survey Reports

Sharing Survey Reports can be very useful. It is also very simple, just follow these three steps:
1) Login into the tool;
2) Click on the “Analyze” button fro the survey you want to share;
3) In “Share your reports” section, check “Enable Sharing”, pick a password, and …

Who can access vTools?

We often get asked question “Who can access vTools?”. We updated our FAQ with the answer, but also wanted to add a blog post as well.
The current security model automatically allows use of the tools by any volunteer who appears on the organizational roster.  Volunteers …

Meetings 4.0 and Voting 1.3 have been released

We are happy to announce that vTools.Meetings version 4.0 and vTools.Voting version 1.3 were released today.
vTools.Voting 1.3 is a maintenance release. It introduces the following changes:
– Look and feel compliant with the latest IEEE web presence guidelines.;
– Code compatibilty with Rails version 2.3.5;
– New version …