Our tools are easy to use. We ensure your team learns and is supported in integrating the tools and processes for themselves.

The learning curve is short for most users, if they are able to surf the web and use word processing packages they will be able to make use of our friendly interfaces and icon driven actions. On-line manuals, at easy reach, support continued capacity building within your user group.

Chances are you have an organizational culture, and you may have concerns about resistance to change. Affinity Bridge offers a chance to adopt new internal and external processes that will increase organizational effectiveness.

Our tools are designed to support users into new ways of working and collaborating. These new processes do not have to change your culture but they can.

Our clients decide the level of organizational change that is appropriate and are supported by Affinity Bridge employing trusted change management and technology implementation methodologies.

Internal/External efficiencies:

Employing web communication technology has a number of internal and external benefits for your organization.

Capacity Building
The immediate internal benefit of this approach is building capacity in and empowering your staff to express what the organization does, has learned, and has to offer to it’s core community. Building capacity and providing opportunities for contribution and growth builds loyalty and cohesiveness within an organizational team.

Authentic messages
Your people are the life-blood of the organization and hold the core messages that need to be expressed to engage stakeholders. Your key messages will be more compelling when they express the team's experience and understanding.

Getting core messages to the surface is facilitated by collaborative development and coordination of collateral materials. Using our means for collaborative working space, your team can develop working documents and knowledge capital together.
This not only enriches the quality of your messages and engagement of your team, our solutions will enrich the quality and efficiency of your work processes.

Efficient work processes
Your organization will benefit from more effective work processes that are supported by workflow mechanisms. Workflow manages the work load, notification and responsibilities, over time, of collaborative efforts.

Better Volunteer Management
Another concrete benefit to your organization of web-based communication tools is better coordination of volunteers. On-line volunteer events calendars, sign ups, discussion, recruiting of friends, volunteer newsletters, announcements, recognition, i.e. volunteer of the month, that can be shared with other stakeholders can all enhance the volunteer management capability and experience of being a volunteer for the organization. On top of enhanced communication and engagement, management of the volunteer force can be effectively supported by a contact database of volunteers, which includes contact information, history, special skills and experience and friendly personal details like birthdays and awards to be recognized.

All of these attributes support your organization developing its story, vision and growth, in compelling terms, and by including all of your resources which means the core understanding and soul of your organization.

External reach
An organization’s external communications with stakeholders is critical for the continuation of operations. Without community support and an effectively engaged stakeholder group, opportunities for funding and the effectiveness of your cause suffer.

Our solutions are designed for effective communication with and engagement of stakeholders. Through contact management, dynamic on-line publishing, bulk email, secure financial contributions, media management such as video casting, and pod casting, discussion groups, research and knowledge archives.

The same tools that facilitate better volunteer management can be applied to member management with effective communication driven by efficient use of resources. Membership contact databases allow the organization to manage the rich information flow to and from members. From contact information to availability for events. Regular publishing to your stakeholders can be organized to suit the organization’s desire and resources.