Best Practices: Protect Your Association from Phishing Emails
Associations fall victim to Phishing Emails too In light of recent news, where an Alberta regulatory body became victim of a phishing email resulting in a data breach, we wanted to provide some information about what phishing is and some steps that you and your members can take to ensure that you are as safe as possible. While […]
5 Tips to Improve the Application Process
The best way to keep your relationship on a positive note with anyone is communication. That’s really what it’s all about, so why not with your association management software? We don’t just mean communication in the traditional sense of back and forth dialogue, but by letting applicants know ahead of time what is required. By doing […]
Submitting Data to CIHI
Most regulatory bodies have to submit data to external organizations. Often these submissions are in the form of aggregated totals of ages, registration classes, etc. These can generally be completed by sending them a report. Other times though, the data you send is highly detailed – perhaps sending a list of your registrants off to […]
6 Things Our Support Desk Wants You To Know
Our support desk at Alinity/Permitsy regularly has a very busy day, as it probably is in any software company. Each day we have a standup meeting to discuss the progress of tickets that clients send in that specify requests, errors, and questions. We want to make sure all our regulatory bodies are getting their solutions […]
Tech Glossary: Technical Terms Explained in Everyday Language
With the success of The Support Desk Glossary, we decided to make a general terms version. These are terms that are used across all industries, not just Permitsy. Some of them are commonly said around modern households, such as “IP address” and some are less brought up, like “query.” These definitions are written in non-technical […]
The Support Desk Glossary!
The Support Desk pretty much has a language on their own. Instead of using regular everyday language, they have jargon that is sometimes specific to our company. How are we supposed to naturally know what developers are talking about? Most people that do not work in coding, programming, or anything computer related don’t know what […]
Database Management: Tags vs. Taxonomy
When it comes to a large number of items, whether it’s documents or online profiles, you need to have a method for grouping them to create organization and make it easier to locate them. There are two common methods to grouping: folksonomy (tags) and taxonomy. Folksonomy Folksonomy is arranging groups through collaborative classifications in a […]
Best Practices for Handling Late Renewal
We like to hope that the vast majority of our registration renewals happen before the expiry date of your registrant’s license, and in most cases they do. Registrants usually complete their renewals in a timely manner. But every college has registrants that are habitually late for renewal, just like we all have that one employee who’s […]
Find the Right Management Software for Your Association.
You’re probably reading this because you’ve identified that your current solution doesn’t quite meet the needs of a modern association or regulatory body. Maybe you’re still using paper-based membership renewals and applications, or the current system is just too costly to maintain. Maybe your members or the public are asking for features that are not […]
Canadian Anti-Spam Law (CASL) and Regulatory Bodies
A topic that has been of discussion for about the past year is the Canadian Anti-Spam Law (CASL). What is CASL? Well it’s not that simple, but to summarize it, it was officially enforced by the Canadian Radio-Televion and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on July 1, 2014. It made it mandatory for organizations to gain consent […]
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