HOAwiki.com offers websites with more functionality and more of the features users want than HOA-Sites.com.
By: Mary Luketich
on: Friday, October 24, 2008 01:55 pm CDT
expires: Saturday, October 24, 2009 12:00 am CDT
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No other product offers so many tools useful to community associations because we are the only web developer with a background in community management. HOAwiki.com is the result of our commitment to you, the homeowner.
We believe that by creating this collaborative space, each association can become stronger, more active and more involved in their larger communities. This strength reflects in their quality of life and property value, and that's what home ownership is all about. You and HOAwiki, together we can build better communities.
HOAwiki’s Unique Features1. Development Community
HOAwiki is built on an open source platform with more than 200 developers globally. This development community enables HOAwiki to grow over time, as new features and systems are released in annual upgrades. This unique quality separates us from other HOA hosting companies.
HOA-Sites.com experience – Your website grows less active over time, as members turn to other sources for tools. Members visit monthly or less and communication returns to email, leaving some “out of the loop” and frustrated. There is discussion of revamping the website again every year or so.
HOAwiki.com experience - Your members enjoy the site’s up-to-date features and visit the site frequently to read new postings and share through social networks. New developments improve the sites usability and functionality.
HOAwiki.com:
Provides 1 GB of space for your site.
Provides 3 GB of bandwidth for your site.
Provides 500 email addresses for your use.
Domains are included.
HOA-sites.com:
Does not disclose the space they provide. Hmmm.
Provides 300 MB of bandwidth they provide. Wow, that's low ...
Does not disclose the number of Email addresses they provide. Hmmm.
Domains are included.
2. Security Monitoring and Daily Off-Server Backups
While we do our best efforts to keep our servers, server crashes and natural disasters are inevitable. We take our service one step further by server monitoring and security checks to ensure your website is optimized, safe and secured 24/7. In the unlikely event of a server crash, our Off-Server website backups are the only solution to get your website back with a recent copy instead of having to restart your website from scratch.
HOA-Sites.com experience – Your site cannot be accessed due to user error (software issues) or server crash. Your site must be rebuilt from scratch because you had no off-server backup in place, at considerable cost to your association.
HOAwiki.com experience - Your site cannot be access due to user error (software issue) or server crash. You email your admin (admin@your_site) of the incident, but before you can send, the site is back up, current to the previous day. The issue was discovered and handled by your host automatically, at no additional charge.
More Unique Features - Description
3. Violation Report system - Send/track Violation Reports, view/sort historical data
4. Work Order system - Send/track Work Orders, view/sort historical data
5. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - Style sheets make Design features easy to modify.
6. Internal Messaging System - Send/Receive internal messages and tasks without email.
7. Support Ticket System - Trackable support tickets use multiple routing options
8. Articles Rankings - Rank Articles by Popularity
9. Blog Rankings - Rank Blogs by Popularity
10. Blogs - Blog your HOA, become known for your views.
11. Charts - Create pie charts, line or bar charts online
12. Friendship Network - Keep track of friends, make new friends
13. Mail-In Notifications - Email your blog post or article to the site
14. Slideshows - View slideshows of pages, images or files
15. Templates - Create page templates accessible by all members
16. User Manual - Online and print manual for software
17. Workflow Engine - Coordinate complex tasks across multiple users
18. Quizzes and Tests - Challenge your members and offer prizes
19. Games - Challenge your neighbors and make friends
20. Ad Editing - Edit your own classified ads.
21. Anyone can edit - No more web design fees.
22. Content Management System (CMS) - Site-wide searchable, organized content management
23. WYSIWYG interface - Email-style editing interface for ease of use
24. Mobile - Access your website on PDA or cell phone
25. Send to a Friend - Share a site link with a friend
Unique User Features
HOAwiki provides a suite of tools for every user. Easily share bookmarks, notes, tasks, files or events with other users. Organize your own tools.
26. Bookmarks 27. My watches 28. Tasks
29. Messages 30. Newsreader 31. User Menu
32. Mini Calendar 33. Notepad 34. My files
35. My files 36. Preferences
Media
HOAwiki integrates with common media, mobile devices, video, HTML pages, javascript. Share pages with social networking tags.
Flash Login: OpenID WindowMediaPlayer movie (.wmv)
GoogleVideo Mobile compatible YouTube
HTML pages Shelfari
Javascript Skype
Last.fm (online radio) Social Bookmarking
Common Features between HOAwiki and HOA-sites.com:
Banning System FAQ Newsletters w/Archives
Board page File Manager PDF generation
Categories ForumComments Photo descriptions
Chat ForumFeeds Photo galleries
Classifieds Forums/MsgBrds Polls
Comments Google Maps Profiles
Committee pages Image Auto-Thumbnail RSS
Contact Us Images, Max Size SE Submission
Directory Layered Permissions Spam Blocker
Dues via PayPal Login: Forgot Password Spellcheck
Email Batch Send Login: Remember me Surveys
Email Board/Committees Multilingual Visitor Stats
Calendars Neighborhood Map
HOAwiki: Commitment
This is our only business. Our background in HOA management services continues to prove us uniquely qualified to create the most useful features to your communities.
HOAwiki: Memberships
HOAwiki.com is an active member of CAI-Austin, the Austin Independent Business Alliance and the ACLU.
HOAwiki: Green Business
We offset our carbon footprint by sponsoring an acre of ancient rainforest in Central America through the Nature Conservancy.
HOAwiki: Social Responsibility
Our site directories include social sites, positive-news magazines, and health and safety sites around the globe, another feature that directly benefits members, not offered by any other HOA hosting company.
HOAwiki: No Replacement Cost
HOAwiki will include all images, files and pages from your current site in your new site, free of charge.
HOAwiki: Invoicing
HOAwiki provides printed invoices for all services, billed annually.
Financial comparison
HOA-sites.com 1st year total - $548/yr
HOAwiki.com 1st year total - $450/yr
Conclusion:
Switch today from HOA-Sites.com to HOAwiki.com. We can have your site converted in just two weeks. Stop depending on graphic designers for your website. Get a website with a large development community and programmers, not artists, behind it. You won't believe the difference it makes.
What's the Bottom Line? If you don't see a feature you want on your site, ask. We can integrate or build it for you.