ICE - The Interactive Chapter Experience

Bring all of your online experiences together through ICE, the Interactive Chapter Experience. ICE leverages your iMIS data to deliver a rich experience to your members through your website and capturing important information from your members. Together with a robust chapter management portal fraternal organizations are realizing efficiencies, reducing costs, and impressing members.

ICE includes three core components: dynamic content from your iMIS database delivered directly to your website, a chapter management portal that reads from and posts back directly to your iMIS database, and a social networking engine that allows your members to connect in a private environment where your organization benefits from members sharing their experiences!

Integrating iMIS into Your Website

ICE complements and enhances the iMIS 15 Public User Views to provide member logins, profile updates, and member directories. In addition, ICE uses the power of the data in your iMIS database to provide real-time access to committee rosters, staff listings, and chapter directories. No longer will your staff need to update basic information in both the membership system and on the website - with ICE information is updated in many cases by members themselves and then posted directly to the web.

ICE provides a single sign-on experience for your users to manage their personal information, access secure areas of your website, or to conduct transactions like registering for your next convention. All of your electronic assets can be accessed directly from the login on your homepage.

Automate Chapter Reporting

Your organization thrives on the data that comes in regarding membership, academics, scholarship, philanthropy, and housing. ICE makes the collection and processing of that data easy. Simple wizards let your chapter leaders and members know when information is due to headquarters and also walks them through the process online. No need to process paper forms, incoming emails, or faxed documents.

Through ICE, membership changes are processed and posted directly to your iMIS database. Approval workflows allow you to have a distributed approval network of local, regional, or national volunteers and culminates with a staff review. The entire process of inducting new members, reporting initiations and graduations, and all of your membership changes are automated.

You define the additional data you want to collect and when through the use of our form designer and task center event manager. The additional data posts to the common demographic tables that leverage the iMIS architecture.

Chapter leaders, volunteers, and staff will always have the pulse of their chapter through live reporting. Your membership will grow through accountability as those with appropriate permissions see membership trends, collection history, and academic results over time for each chapter in easy to understand graphs and charts.

Leverage the Power of Social Networking

ICE is built on the Ektron CMS400.Net content management and social networking platform. By bringing together iMIS membership information with the social networking tools of Ektron, ICE creates a user experience that is vibrant for your members and captures important information for your organization through a single website.

The key to success of a social networking site is traffic. Provide your members and chapters with the tools that increase site traffic including blogs, wikis, discussion forums, photo and document libraries, event calendars, and interaction with members from throughout your organization.

Contrary to other social networking sites, your ICE site will already bring together all of the members of your chapters, your national working committees, and your alumni networks. ICE leverages the information we already know about your members - like what chapter they are a part of - to pre-populate many of the relationships that other sites don't have. Your members will share more information about themselves such as their employment, graduate degrees, and family information because they are sharing the info with other members that they want to connect or reconnect with.