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MaryPoppins

07-21-2013 11:31 AM

Thank you, Titchou!

dukedg

07-21-2013 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by MaryPoppins (Post 2226596)

If one was able to maintain the list in an Excel spreadsheet, surely there's a way to to upload it into ICS? You might have to start with a download from ICS, and then add attributes necessary to each PNM to make the spreadsheet useful to the Chapter.

***Note I am not a Recruitment Advisor, and do not pretend to be one, it's just that I was a manager of a very large and complex computer database before I started lawyering.

If anyone knows how to do this, please share! I've been using ICS for years now and I don't know if there is a way to get in the back and load a data file. It's much more of a click-and-point sort of application :(

MaryPoppins

07-21-2013 09:48 PM

Hope someone out there is an ICS superuser. I've not ever touched it. If it is point and click, look for a pull down menu that lists "Export" and "Import" Some newer software has an elaborate help function.

MaryPoppins

07-21-2013 10:07 PM

Is the company that makes ICS? Interactive Collegiate Solutions Maybe you could ask one of their support staff.

dukedg

07-21-2013 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by MaryPoppins (Post 2226709)

Is the company that makes ICS? Interactive Collegiate Solutions Maybe you could ask one of their support staff.

Yup, that's the company. We get training every year via Panhellenic as most of the members have never used it before. If there is a way to upload anything, I don't believe it's an intentional part of the design. I think it would be more of a hack.

MaryPoppins

07-25-2013 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by dukedg (Post 2226704)

Dukedg, the answers you seek may begin here: http://www.gmr-manager.com/home.php AND http://www.gmr-manager.com/help/home...tUploadService

dukedg

07-25-2013 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by MaryPoppins (Post 2227485)

Dukedgm the answers you seek may begin here: http://www.gmr-manager.com/home.php AND http://www.gmr-manager.com/help/home...tUploadService

Wow, I had no idea such a business existed! Unfortunately, DG already requires our own software to be used and the chapter I work with already has electronic voting devices too. Has anyone used these guys?

MaryPoppins

07-26-2013 12:46 AM

Our electronic devices are the members own smart phones. It will be out first year. We had to upgrade our connection to the internet and the Wifi capacity in order to be ready for the peak volume.

Still, I think a text delimited spreadsheet should be upload-able. Just don't know how you would get one in the first place. Still there are others doing it, so maybe it is possible for you?

DubaiSis

07-26-2013 01:11 AM

Wow. How times have changed! Voting electronically has to strip HOURS off the total process. And I guess it's not too much to expect each member to have a smart phone :)

Titchou

07-26-2013 07:21 AM

We voted with them at Convention last year - we call them clickers. It's a hand held device configured with yes/no for the vote on an individual. Some groups also use a hand held scanner.

dukedg

07-26-2013 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Titchou (Post 2227549)

We voted with them at Convention last year - we call them clickers. It's a hand held device configured with yes/no for the vote on an individual. Some groups also use a hand held scanner.

Yes, we have something like this. We decided against using phones because we didn't want everyone to have their phones out during MS.

Titchou

07-26-2013 10:04 AM

Yes - using the cell phones could be a problem!

KSUViolet06

07-26-2013 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by DubaiSis (Post 2227532)

Wow. How times have changed! Voting electronically has to strip HOURS off the total process. And I guess it's not too much to expect each member to have a smart phone :)

Our larger chapters have used this. I can't go into details obviously, but it really is amazing, as long as you have it set up and test it out before they're all sitting there.

MaryPoppins

07-27-2013 11:06 AM

Also, there is a cell phone signal jammer that you can install if the young ladies don't have enough restraint.

HQWest

07-27-2013 11:15 AM

We figured out that 3/4 of the women already had iclickers for class. So we are going to try to buy a few more and borrow a base to use those this year

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