The Center for Association Growth (TCAG)
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| Home page | The Center for Association Growth (TCAG) |
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| Location | United States |
Two technology developments that TCAG uses to dramatically increase the quality and sophistication of the technology capabilities available to our clients are Open Source Software and Software-as-a-Service (SAAS). All of our client web sites are built on top of leading open source content management system (CMS) called Plone. TCAG has built out a variety of new functionality specific to associations (membership directory, resource library, advertising delivery, job bank, video, etc…). As we build out new capabilities, we then share this with every client we have, so that all of our clients can benefit from this collective approach.
In addition to open source software, TCAG also uses a variety of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers to help us bring new features to our associations without significant up front investments. For example, we recently launched a new Web 2.0 collaboration center for one of our clients. For a fraction of what it would cost to build a similar set of features, our client essentially rents this system on a monthly basis and gets continual upgrades to the system as part of its monthly fee. More importantly, this new collaboration center enabled us to offer a new advertising channel to service providers, thus helping to self fund these new capabilities.
Today, TCAG offers a hosted solution that combines the best open source applications with best of breed SaaS applications. We call this solution OPENAssociations and we think it will dramatically change how associations think about their technology needs.
Deployed Sites
- Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (United States)
- Plone provided the perfect platform to build out a new site for this international association for strategic alliance professionals. It leverages a slew of Plone plug-ins and integrates with a leading association back-end management system.
- Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services (United States)
- This accreditation organization needed a new website. Plone provided the ideal platform. With a custom skin and the integration of Google maps, this affordable solution has provided an instant lift to this worthy organization. TCAG provided project management, Contextual Corp did the programming and SixFeetUp provided design and hosting.
- Legal Marketing Association (United States)
- Plone again provided the perfect platform to relaunch this full-featured association site. Featuring a new design, and plently of Plone add on products, including Teamspaces, PloneFormGen, Remember, and Vocabularies, this site is the home for the 3,000 members of the Legal Marketing Association. In the Members Only area, we have a robust Resource Center, easy to use Member Directory, Vendor Directory and Job Bank. We are soon adding Plone Get Paid to accomodate ecommerce requirement. The Center for Association Growth partnered with Contextual Corporation to build, launch and maintain the site.
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