Overview
SiteCrafting develops online calendars that make managing and viewing events easy. We create clean calendars with features that get people what they need quickly. Our tools offer a variety of ways to view, search and sort your events and can keep visitors in the know via RSS feeds, email notifications, printable monthly grids, and more!
Pierce County Library
The Pierce County Library System consists of 17 branches and three bookmobiles to serve the public. The library’s collection includes more than a million books, CDs and films, and numerous programs that encourage children to read assist with schoolwork. The library also sponsors several events for the community including computer workshops for those 55 and older, and employs staff members fluent in Spanish and Korean.
Needs
The Pierce County Library system was managing a website using FrontPage and needed a more professional layout and a more efficient way to manage new content. Beyond just the website, the Library had an intranet - “Staff Web” and needed a way to reserve rooms, register for classes, track summer reading, and manage entries in their teen writing contest.
Solution
SiteCrafting developed a web-based platform to fit the needs of both Pierce County Library patrons as well as staff. The platform serves as the content management system for both the private and staff websites, room reservation and class registration system, “In Our Own Words” writing contest management, and blog management system.
SiteCrafting’s solutions are a reason the Pierce County Library system is a web leader.
Tools
The Pierce County Library System uses several custom tools in addition to their calendar.
- SiteCrafting CMS
- Integrated Intranet
- Gadget development tools for staff web (e.g. iGoogle tools)
- Room Reservation system
- Class Registration system
- Summer Reading Tracking system
- Blogs
- Integrated with third party Polaris Card Catalog
Testimonial
The events module is as an excellent product. We didn’t have any technical problems or glitches. The day we launched it, we had 600 people register for the Pierce County Reads author visit within the first 30 minutes. It was very stable and we got good feedback from the public in how easy it was to use. All in all it was a great deployment.
I really can’t say enough positive things about working with SiteCrafting. Their .Net programmers have all been very responsive. I’m a semi-quasi programmer myself, but they are always there to help me and point me in the right direction."
Andrew Shulz
Website Administrator
"The events calendar is one of our highest used pages on the site. People are very interested in the programs in our 17 library branches. We have opportunities where people can find specific events such as our teen programs. They can search for events by age group and by branch. It’s pretty robust in that capacity.
The public response to our website has been phenomenal. We’re continuing to work with SiteCrafting and think they are fabulous."
Mary Getchell
Communications Director
MultiCare
MultiCare is a not-for-profit health organization made up of four hospitals including Allenmore Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Tacoma General Hospital, as well as numerous primary and urgent care clinics, multi-speciality centers, and many other services. Based in Tacoma, Washington since in 1882, MultiCare Health System is one of the region's most comprehensive health care systems and the largest provider of key medical services in Pierce, South King, Kitsap and Thurston counties.
Needs
MultiCare needed a way to manage the large number of events and classes at each of their hospitals, with each organization being able to add, edit, and delete their own classes. They also wanted it to be easy for the public to search for, view, and enroll in those classes.
Solution
SiteCrafting created a custom events module that allowed groups to add, edit, and delete their own events. Each event is categorized and can be associated with a particular hospital or MultiCare location. Front end users can search by date, class type, or location.
Tools
MultiCare's events calendar works in conjunction with the following tools:
- SiteCrafting CMS
- Integration with Google Search Appliance - “Find as you type”
- Custom Work Flow/Approval
- Multiple site management
- XML and data integration with third parties for content/course registration
- Physician search tools
- Secure document areas
"We have quite a few classes and events going on throughout our (health care) system. We needed a way to enhance what we had in our old system to manage all our classes and events. We wanted people throughout the organization to be able to display their classes, add and edit them.
SiteCrafting built a custom classes and events module. It makes it really easy for our staff to go online and update their own information.
It’s also very easy for the public to find classes and events. It displays a calendar – so for example, a person can easily find all the cancer classes available in the month of September.
It’s nice to be able to turn to SiteCrafting as a resource. We don’t have a lot of internal web resources – but with them, we have dedicated resources."
Angela Gow
Webmaster, MultiCare Health System
Bellarmine
Bellarmine Preparatory School is a Jesuit high school located in Tacoma, Washington. Established in 1928, Bellarmine became a co-educational facility in 1974 and currently enrolls approximately 1,000 students from Pierce, Thurston, Kitsap and King counties. Bellarmine has a long standing record of excellence, with 95-98% of its graduates attending college, and 4-6 National Merit Finalists each year.
Needs
With nearly 1,000 students enrolling each year, Bellarmine needed a calendar that would keep staff, students, parents, and alumni informed about school related events throughout the year.
Solution
SiteCrafting created a calendar tool that allows Bellarmine users to add, edit and delete events. Front end users can search for events by category, view the calendar a day or a month at a time, as well as print calendar pages, and even subscribe to them via RSS.
Tools
In addition to an events calendar for staff, students, and alumni, Bellarmine uses these SiteCrafting solultions:
- SiteCrafting CMS
- Staff Directory
- Library Integration
- E Commerce
- Registration Forms
