Public Communications System™ Solution Benefits:      Public Comment Benefits: Access information and receive qualified public input, 24/7. Remove barriers to engage citizens and increase outreach efforts. Save time and financial resources by lowering the transaction costs associated with public involvement. Capture, qualify, analyze and report public comment, imagery and video submissions. Remove uncertainty, spam and virus threats of email submissions. Create a historical document of record, or institutional memory, to share best practices and support successful planning in the future. As an optional service, you can visually see the results of your outreach efforts with GIS mapping capabilities. Project Management Benefits: Provide a secure, central repository of information, with 24/7 accessibility. Share project documents, images and videos online and support efficient communications management for project team members. Enable small teams to efficiently manage large, complex projects. Minimize paperwork and reduce the costs associated with document reproduction, mailing and hard copy storage. Save travel costs through online collaboration between multiple committees, offices, agencies and jurisdictions. Create a historical document of record, or institutional memory, to share best practices and support successful planning in the future. Key Features: Public Comment Features: Capture public comment. Provides full validation of users/citizens to meet public comment legislative standards. Moderate questions. Define appropriate question format(s) to engage citizens and collect comments. Report public comment. Provides search capabilities and multiple reporting formats, including graphics. Selectively publish results. Scrutinize comments to avoid publication of inappropriate remarks, or those that fail to meet comment standards. Capture electronic documents, images and video. Upload and share multiple file formats including reports, documents, images and other forms of support documentation and imagery. Map participation. Public Comment Service is integrated with GIS to provide mapping capabilities for those who choose this optional service. Project Management Features: Information Management Document Management Content Management Image Management Video Management Task Management Knowledge Management Project Branding Group Calendar Project Gantt Charts Email Notification System IT Facts: The “Software as a Service” solution is designed, built and supported by INgage Networks, industry leaders in public communications management. Our hosted solution is on our secure server(s). You’ll have all the benefits of a fully-supported enterprise system (backup, offsite storage, 24/7 protection, data storage and bandwidth) without burdening your in-house networks. The solution does not require hardware, additional software or IT staffing. All of our products are web-based and intuitive, so the learning curve is brief and does not require IT support (anyone can use it and it does not require programming skills). Public Comment Service prevents needlessly compromising your infrastructure through email programs that can submit spam, viruses and mass quantities of unqualified comment. Thank you for your interest in our Public Comment Service. Please contact a sales representative for additional information. Back to products...