Louisville's Virtual Kickoff 9/5/08

On Friday, September 5, 2008 from 9:00-9:15 a.m. ET, supporters of the Metro United Way in Louisville will join forces in a Virtual Kickoff via the web, Business First of Louisville reports.

“As responsible stewards of the community’s generous donations, and with the current high fuel and food prices, Metro United Way is ‘going green’ ” with its campaign kick-off, the organization said in a news release.

To participate, visit their website at http://www.metrounitedway.org/ on Friday, September 5, 2008 at 9:00 am ET.

On-Demand Training Sample

Introducing training on your schedule. Upic is now offering short, topic-specific training opportunities on a variety of Upic Solutions services. Check out the Upic Solutions On-Demand Training series by watching this 2 minute video.

When you are ready to enroll, either submit a help desk ticket or email our Upic University staff. Our On-Demand Training series is free for all Upic Solutions members based upon the Upic service levels purchased by your organization.

Prior posting: On Demand training webinars (part 1)

New Staples discount program

UPDATED: Upic member organizations now have access to the Staples Business Advantage program. This program is not for personal use. Our program provides the simplicity of online ordering and substantial discounts compared to your local Staples retail location. To enroll in the program, please email our dedicated Staples account manager.

See updated post above.

On Demand training webinars (part 1)

Introducing Upic Solutions On-Demand Training Series!

We know that your time is valuable...that's why we've developed 5-8 minute mini-webinars on various Upic services.

These sessions are free to all Upic members and may be viewed at any time from any broadband internet location. We even provide completion certificates after each track.

To sign up for our pilot of the on-demand classes, please contact the Upic University registrar. You will be enrolled in classes that correspond to your United Way's service level.

Orientation Track (All Upic members)
Designed to assist new Upic members with the basics of Upic University, our Help Desk, and Virtual Office navigation. Each class is approximately five minutes in length.
1. Welcome to Upic University
2. Creating a Help Desk Ticket
3. Logging into Virtual Office

Virtual Office Track (Virtual Office service members)
Designed to assist Upic members with the basics of Upic Virtual Office (VO) system. Each class is approximately five minutes in length.
1. Logging into Virtual Office
2. Options & Settings
3. Spam Filter overview
4. Web Filter overview (in production)
5. Printing in Virtual Office (in production)

Watch this space for more information on additional on-demand webinars.

Join our growing team at Upic

We need fun and enthusistic people to join our team at Upic Solutions. We have created the following new positions to assist us in a growth phase:

Webinar Trainer
Programmer
Customer Service Rep
Deskside Support Tech
Senior System Admin


To see all of our new positions and to apply, please visit our website at:
www.upicsolutions.org/careers

Upic staff give over $14K to United Way

We believe in supporting the communities where we live or work via our annual United Way campaign. During our 2008 pacesetter drive, our associates pledged $14, 276...and this number will continue to grow as we add several new team members over the fall. This averages over $1330 per team member in support of local human services. Live United and support your local United Way!

"Pledge Card Freedom" deadline approaching

For the past two campaign seasons, Upic has been able to process almost ANY paper pledge card and is no longer limited to "scan card" formats. This new service works with any back-end campaign system as long as it can accept electronic import routines.

This year, Upic is projected to process over 400,000 cards at 99.5% character level accuracy and at a fixed fee per card--price determined based upon turn-around-time.

Our process requires about 2-4 weeks for process set-up and testing. With many United Ways starting their processing season around Labor Day, the deadline for set-up and testing is fast approaching.

We're excited to welcome a number of new processing members this year...either processing the majority of their paper pledge cards OR running an early pilot program: Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas and Phoenix are all participating this year.

Web 2.0 seminar at greatly reduced prices

Many of Upic's members are looking for the next generation platform that will provide interactivity and personalized content to individual United Way supporters and volunteers. Within the technology community, these tools are commonly referred to as Web 2.0.

Upic enjoys a wonderful relationship with Northern Kentucky University's Infrastructure Management Institute who is sponsoring a national program on Web 2.0 University September 23 and 24th.

This same seminar costs nearly $900/day Chicago and Boston, but through NKU and related sponsorships only costs $99/each day via this registration link. (Thanks PRosh for the correction).

For hotel discounts, please contact us at this link.

Grand Opening!

Upic Solutions joins the wonderful world of blogs with this first post. We've developed this blog to help build a stronger community with our over 1000 end users across nearly 30 United Ways and affiliated organizations.

We've got a couple of new initatives under way to improve our services to our members...

1) On-demand classroom. We're currently testing our new on-demand learning series with the United Way in High Point, NC. Each web video is less than 10 minutes in length and is focused on a particular subject of interest.

2) New Andar help desk. In a few weeks, we will begin a roll-out of our new Andar help desk, designed to assist with "how to" questions and report writing assistance. Call our dedicated toll free number and you will reach an experienced Andar customer service rep ready to assist you.

Watch this blog for more information!