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Kintera Sphere CMS

The Kintera Sphere CMS (Content Management System) offers a robust and powerful Web site publishing solution. Easily create and update your Web site, increasing traffic and impact by providing fresh, timely and personalized content. Increase awareness of your organization, get your message out quicker, build affinity, raise more money, and reinforce your marketing messages with Kintera CMS.

The Kintera CMS can be used to generate basic Web pages, to integrate forms (such as event, membership or volunteer registration forms and donation forms with online transaction capabilities), or to create robust Web sites with database driven content, personalization, syndication features and interactivity. All Web pages with the Kintera CMS can easily be integrated into an existing Web site.

Create Your Own Full-Featured Web Site

Efficiently manage and update your Web site on a daily basis without any prior technical knowledge or technical staff:

  • WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) Editing Tools – Create and modify content with an easy to use content editor. View source mode, cut/paste functionality, and spell checker included.
  • Template Driven Web Pages – Use templates to simplify your work and maintain consistency. A Macromedia Dreamweaver plug-in is available.
  • Separation of Content and Navigation – Modify navigation and Web site tools without disrupting content.
  • Automated Linking – Protect against broken links during site restructuring.
  • Meta Tag Creation – Optimize search engine indexing with meta tags that are either site or page specific.

Secure and Easy to Manage

Protect the integrity of your content through custom security levels and audit trails:

  • Version Control and Archiving – Allow users to revert back to previous versions of content. Store older content in an archive.
  • Surf to Edit – Browse your Web site to identify Web pages you want to edit, then click a button to open up the WYSIWYG editor to make your changes.
  • Reporting – Analyze real-time Web site traffic patterns and activity to better understand your visitors and constituents.
  • Scheduled Publishing and Archiving – Keep your Web site fresh and enliven the Web site user experience with easily updated content, Web pages and automated settings on content.
  • Intranet – Add folders to upload and share internal content and files with version control in a secure environment.
  • Directory – Allow users to create personal pages that can then be searched and viewed in the password-protected Member Directory.
  • Password Protected Area – Provide a password-protected area where users can view targeted content based on their membership level and edit their personal profile and membership information.
  • Parent / Child Website – Enable a subset of the larger community, such as an alumni club or chapter, to control their own Web site content and email messaging.

Functionality that Drives Involvement

Integrate solutions to create Web site functionality that drives visitor and supporter involvement, helping you fulfill your mission:

  • Personalization and Relevancy – Provide content to visitors based on their database segmentation and interests to create a rich user experience and acquire new supporters.
  • User Involvement – Generate interactive and engaging features such as job boards, quizzes, surveys, calendars and bulletin boards.
  • International Reach – Standard UNICODE characters allow multinational or multilingual organizations to easily manage content in many languages.
  • Event Management – Easily incorporate your events, campaigns, advocacy efforts and fundraising initiatives into your Web site.
  • Membership Features – Offer exclusive content and a secure login area to create, modify, and even share member profiles.
  • Forward to a Friend – Our powerful “forward to a friend” feature can be placed on any Web page to help create grassroots involvement. Users can send an email to up to 20 friends with one email.

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