New website portal for IMI is launched
The International Mediation Institute's website has been upgraded to Tribiq CMS 5.2, and has been updated with new functionality and management tools.
The Chair of IMI and Head of Legal at Nestlé Switzerland, commented:
This one of the most user friendly professional sites you would ever come across. As the portal is the front door to the world for IMI, to me it says ready and open for business. The search tool is really intuitive.
I love it and I know I speak for the whole IMI Board in congratulating you and the team for such a fabulous job which will help in an enormous way to make IMI and its mission known around the world.
Again fantastic job.
Key Functionality: Mediator Sign-up, Profiling and Search
The site includes sophisticated functions which allow a "parent" user to create accounts for known Mediators, using a function which sends an invitation to a Mediator to sign-up and complete his or her Profile.
The Mediator logs in and fills in the multi-page Profile information, which includes searchable data (like Country, Languages Spoken), and other non-searchable descriptive data.
There is an internal management process by which IMI administrators then check and authorize the Mediator, who if successful will then be listed in the Mediator Search part of the website.
The Search function allows any site visitor to perform a search for a qualified Mediator, using various criteria:
A visitor may also search for a Mediator by name, or some other Keyword on the Mediator's profile.
Dedicated Profile Pages for Mediators
An important feature for Mediators is the ability to have their profile available in a number of formats.
A Mediator's profile may be seen in full in a "hovering" state, whereby it lies above other parts of the web page:
There are auto-generated PDF formats available too, in both European A4 and US Letter formats.
Finally, there is a custom web page available for every listed mediator, in the form http://imimediation.org/mediator-name.
This creates a virtual web page for every mediator which they can publiscise in their online and off-line marketing.
Temporary Memberships system for keeping listings up-to-date
When Mediators sign up, they are entitled to make a payment contribution in recognition of their IMI listing, and are encouraged to do this once per year.
The site uses the Tribiq E-Commerce system, plus a system of Temporary Memberships, to keep track of the Mediators' payments and their commensurate annual memberships.
The Temporary Memberships system allows a Mediator to be granted membership of the website for a fixed period of time; for example 1 year's membership, after which the administrator will be warned that the Mediator's membership needs to be renewed.
Optionally the system can automatically send preformatted emails to the Mediators.
This system is all managed via a Plugin into the Tribiq CMS ProBusiness system.
Designed by Tribiq in the UK
The site has been 100% designed by Tribiq's core team in Reading, in the UK.