Everything special districts need to know about online compliance! 

Please join us for a free one-hour webinar where we'll go over everything California districts need to know about website compliance, including the four posting requirements and two formatting requirements. We'll talk about the Brown Act, the Public Records Act, and the new Enterprise System Catalog requirements for SB 272, how to test your site for Section 508 compliance for visitors with disabilities, and more.

Hopefully, you’re aware of the addition to the Public Records Act (PRA) that requires all local government agencies to publish a catalog of “enterprise systems” by July 1, 2016. With any luck, you’ve already taken care of this, and are ready to update your catalog, which needs to be done annually. If you haven’t created the catalog yet, or just have additional questions, we can help. Join this webinar to get all of your questions answered! 

It’s important to note that every single local government agency (city, county, special district) needs to comply with this requirement. There is no exemption for size or budget. There is no exemption for agencies with no enterprise systems or software. 

SB 272 (Hertzberg) added a new mandate to the PRA which requires every local government agency (except educational agencies) in California to inventory all software systems the agency uses to determine which need to be included in their published Enterprise System Catalog. Once that is done, the catalog itself has to be created, listing all systems that aren’t exempt—then a link to the Catalog needs to be added to the agency’s website, and a copy available wherever your board meets. It has to be updated annually. 

The bill text is pretty confusing, so we worked with CSDA, CSAC, and the attorneys who vetted the language to create a free, easy-to-use tool that will help you comply. On this webinar we'll walk through the tool and answer any questions you have about compliance. 

Staying up to date on all the laws and regulations governing special districts can be a real challenge. Are you certain your website is meeting the latest mandated requirements? Did you know that certain violations of website requirements put your district out of compliance with the Brown Act? 

Trial members of CSDA have access to all CSDA resources, including a free webinar June 13th to help clarify website requirements for special districts. We'll provide compliance tips, discuss the content districts are required to publish (including requirements that apply even if you don't have a website), and share tips that could save your district money when fulfilling public records act requests. There will be an opportunity to ask questions of the experts, and you'll be provided with handouts you can take back to your district or share with your peers to help you stay compliant. This free webinar is beneficial to all special districts, whether you have a website or not.

Please join us for a free one-hour webinar where we'll go over everything California fire districts need to know about website compliance. We'll talk about the Brown Act, the Public Records Act and the new Enterprise System Catalog requirements for SB 272, how to test your site for Section 508 compliance for visitors with disabilities, and more.

We'll also go over methods of publishing content that can save your district time and money on PRA requests, thanks to a new law that  was just passed. Lastly, we'll touch on the importance of using email communications to keep in contact with your customers and community–before it's time to communicate things like rate increases or other potentially unpopular subjects.

Streamline sites are designed to give you full control over your content, making it easy for staff or volunteers to make updates and keep your district in compliance with State and Federal mandates, so you can spend your time on more important things. In this webinar we’ll choose one fire district in attendance and build a free demo site for them in less than an hour. 

This webinar will provide some time to go over new features, refresh clients on existing features, and answer your questions. Might be 30 minutes, might be an hour depending on the questions we get!

Last summer our parent company, Digital Deployment, hosted an introductory webinar to walk through the basics of Google Analytics and show a few of the things the strategy team looks at when they evaluate a website. Since then we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from clients interested in learning more about Google Analytics tools and advanced features, so this time around Digital Deployment's Lead Strategist Lindsay Hardy will focus on how you can create custom reports and dashboards for your organization.

Sign up here and join us March 23 at 12:30 pm for this 1 hour advanced webinar.

If you’re just catching up, you're welcome to watch a recording of the prior webinar, Intro to Google Analytics to learn the basics.

See you there!

Join us on this free one hour webinar to learn about the incredibly easy to use, affordable content management system specifically designed for special districts, including district-specific features. We'll demonstrate the meeting dashboard, agenda reminders, transparency dashboard, and answer any questions that come up. 

Every webinar attendee will be offered free site setup for joining us, and members of our partner organizations receive special discounts.

Free webinar for CSDA members!

More than 100 districts use Streamline's website building tool to help them stay compliant with changing state and federal online requirements. In this webinar, they will demonstrate the platform built just for special districts, including the meeting and transparency dashboards, agenda posting reminders, full content management capabilities, and more. 

Register on the CSDA website >

Not a CSDA member? Contact us if you'd like a personalized demo!

On January 18, 2018, all local government organizations must meet new federal guidelines for website accessibility defined in Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act.

Just as buildings must have wheelchair ramps, websites must also accommodate those with visual and other disabilities. Fortunately, it’s easy to check if your site meets these standards. We’ll walk through these new requirements, and we’ll show you how to use free testing tools to verify your level of compliance with both current and upcoming standards.

This 45-minute webinar is designed for district general managers, staff, and board members.

What are other districts using for online bill pay? Surveys and polling? Newsletters and email communications? Website development and hosting? Reporting issues or problems in the district? And what do these tools cost? In this talk, we’ll go over some of the best online tools for districts: everything from empowering citizens to report graffiti to getting engagement and fast input on upcoming board decisions. Specific case studies and examples will be included, so attendees can leave with a concrete understanding of what other districts have done to solve specific problems.

Ready to look like a website pro? This webinar is based on our recent talk at the CSDA Annual Conference and is applicable to anyone with a website, regardless of the platform you use. We’ll share some easy-to-use resources and guidelines to improve your district’s website, including: 

• free professional photography and icon resources;
• tools for converting Word files to PDFs and scanned PDFs to text files for searchability (necessary for compliance with new state mandates);
• testing tools that help ensure you're compliant with federal guidelines for visitors with disabilities;
• tracking tools like Google Analytics to help you understand which pages are most popular on your site and what your users are really looking for;
• content guidelines for search engine optimization to help your district rank well for subjects important to you;
• and engagement tools for email, voting, and polling to help you learn what matters to your constituents.

This will be a general overview of many tools so we'll make sure to make time for questions. We'll also provide a handout to registrants with all the resources we showcase in our talk, so be sure to register today!

We hope you'll join us Tuesday, November 7, 10:00am – 11:00am.

Oregon districts! Join us on this free one hour webinar to learn about the incredibly easy to use, affordable content management system specifically designed for special districts, including Oregon-specific features. We'll demonstrate this unique website builder including meeting dashboard, agenda reminders, and transparency dashboard, and answer any questions that come up. 

Every webinar attendee will be offered free site setup and 2 months free for joining us!

Don’t you love having scientific survey data from citizens?
Don’t you hate the major effort and expense to do surveys?

Good survey data makes everyone’s job easier. No more guessing what citizens want and why. No more speculation and disagreements among officials. But professional surveys have always been a ton of work for governments. From drafting questions to collecting input to calculating and reporting results, they can take months of staff time and calendar time (plus tens of thousands of dollars for consultants).

What if there were a way to do professional scientific surveys 95% faster, cheaper and easier?

The folks from FlashVote will present some best practices around gathering information from the public, and demonstrate their survey service in this free webinar. You’ll learn how to use surveys to poll, engage, inform and measure performance. Join us!

If you've wanted to start live streaming and recording your meetings but haven't known where to start, this webinar is for you. 

The Open Media Project provides easy, affordable software to help governments engage with their communities. Special districts serving less than 5,000 citizens can use a world-class, enterprise grade video streaming platform that is web and mobile compatible—for free. Discounts are provided to governments serving larger populations. 

This 30 minute webinar will show you how easy video can be. Learn more about the Open Media Project, or register below and learn more on August 31st!

In this free webinar we'll go over some of the new features we've rolled out recently including the new automatically publishing transparency widget, board meeting sorting by year and meeting dashboard improvements, teaser and subteaser displays, and more. We'll also leave time for answering any questions that come up. If you're a Streamline Web client, please join us!

It’s important to keep in touch with your constituents, but the number of options to do
so can seem overwhelming. At this webinar we’ll talk about some of the tools agencies are using to connect with their communities and which tools are appropriate for different situations and types of communication. What needs to go on your website? How often should you send emails? Should you be using Facebook or Twitter to make important announcements? How can you effectively use polls and surveys to learn what matters most to your constituents? We’ll discuss this and more on this informative webinar.

Note: this webinar is hosted by CSDA, so registration and payment is required via their website.

Hopefully, you’re aware of the addition to the Public Records Act (PRA) that requires all local government agencies to publish a catalog of “enterprise systems” by July 1 of last year.  With any luck, you’ve already taken care of this, and are ready to update your catalog, which needs to be done annually. If you haven’t created the catalog yet, we have a free tool that can help. 

SB 272 (Hertzberg) added a new mandate to the PRA which requires every local government agency (except educational agencies) in California to inventory all software systems the agency uses to determine which need to be included in their published Enterprise System Catalog. Once that is done, the catalog itself has to be created, listing all systems that aren’t exempt—then a link to the Catalog needs to be added to the agency’s website. Lastly, the Catalog needs to be updated annually. 

It’s important to note that every single local government agency (cities, counties, special districts) needs to comply with this requirement. There is no exemption for size or budget. There is no exemption for agencies with no enterprise systems or software. 

The bill text is pretty confusing, so we worked with CSDA, CSAC, and the attorneys who vetted the language to create a free, easy-to-use tool that will help you comply. On this webinar we'll walk through the tool and answer any questions you have about compliance.

If you don’t have the budget to hire a consulting firm to help determine priorities when making decisions about technology adoption, or you’d just like to understand the process better so that you can choose a good partner / vendor, this free webinar is for you.

The folks from Digital Deployment and Streamline will lay out a discovery process that includes identifying “audiences” (or stakeholders), getting to the “why” of what you’re hoping to accomplish, and methods to clearly identify what is required for a successful adoption of any new system you’re considering. What are the thresholds that require going out to RFP, and what’s the easiest way to develop an RFP? Whether it’s new technology for email, customer tracking, invoicing, or your website, this session will give you the tools to make good decisions when it comes to choosing technology.

Join us for this free one hour webinar where we'll go over everything special districts need to know about online compliance including the Brown Act, Public Records Act, SB 272, Section 508, and more. We'll talk about best practices for publishing content that can help save you time and money on PRA requests, thanks to a new law that passed, and how you can use email communications to keep in contact with your customers and community. There will also be plenty of time for questions.

Google Analytics is a powerful tool to help you track site visitors. Learn how to set it up, and how to leverage it to learn what pages visitors spend time on, the devices they use to visit your site, and get ideas about how to improve content for a better user experience. Digital Deployment's Web Strategist, Lindsay Hardy, will be presenting this free webinar.

Here’s a quick list of the topics we’ll cover:

• Baseline stats – Visits and engagement.
• Acquisition – Where are your visitors coming from?
• Devices – How are visitors viewing your website?
• Top Content – What pages are your visitors most interested in?

Streamline Web is a great solution for fire organizations, allowing them to focus on what they do best: put our fires and protect the public. This webinar will demonstrate the simple-to-use content management system designed to help agencies track meetings and trainings, publish content for the public, and get back to work! We'll do a general demonstration and include case studies of agencies currently on the platform, and offer free site setup for everyone who joins.

11am Pacific / 1pm Central

This is a great opportunity to get a refresher on the various Streamline features as well as getting tips on how to make your site look amazing! In this webinar we'll spend some time going over the powerful functionality of teaser customization, tips for landing page beautification, and spend some time talking about how Groups and Meetings magically work. There will also be time for questions, so get them ready! You can submit questions in advance, when you register, or during the webinar itself.

Join us on this free one hour webinar to learn about the incredibly easy to use, affordable content management system specifically designed for special districts, including district-specific features. We'll demonstrate the meeting dashboard, agenda reminders, transparency dashboard, and answer any questions that come up. 

Every webinar attendee will be offered free site setup for joining us, and members of our partner organizations receive special discounts.

Join us on this free one hour webinar to learn about the incredibly easy to use, affordable content management system specifically designed for local government. We'll demonstrate the meeting dashboard, which helps you manage meetings and see when agendas and minutes have been uploaded and automatically publishes them for the public; agenda reminders so you never forget to get your agendas online before an upcoming meeting, and the transparency dashboard that can help Missouri agencies track their progress. Let us show you how Streamline Web can help your agency be transparent without making your life more difficult!

Streamline® Web features at-a-glance:

• Agenda reminders and meeting dashboard
• Mobile-friendly and Section 508 compliant
• Full control over your content, menus and layout
• Unlimited hosting and support, free training
• Affordable monthly fee, no up-front costs
• Risk free: no contracts, cancel any time

Every webinar attendee will be offered a free trial with free site setup!

Streamline's parent company, Digital Deployment, is holding a webinar on search engine optimization (SEO) Wednesday, March 29th at 11am Pacific.

From Mac Clemmens, Digital Deployment CEO:

85% of people looking for information online start their journey using a search engine, but with so many results, how can you make sure your site stands out? Do you know how people are finding your site and why they’re visiting? In this presentation, we discuss search engine optimization, including how to make your digital presence more public-friendly and improve the reach of your programs and services. This one-hour talk will help you better communicate with the public and other key audiences, regardless of what website platform your agency uses.

Learn about Streamline Web—the tool that makes having a website easy for special districts in Oregon. Join us on this free one hour webinar to learn about the incredibly easy to use, affordable content management system specifically designed for local government. We'll demonstrate features like the meeting dashboard, agenda reminders, transparency best practices tracking, and answer any questions that come up. We'll also explain how our dedication to "having your back" is expressed through unlimited hosting and support, and district-focused feature development.

Every attendee will be offered free site setup for joining us.

Join us on this free one hour webinar to learn about the incredibly easy to use, affordable content management system specifically designed for special districts, including California-specific features. We'll demonstrate the meeting dashboard, agenda reminders, transparency dashboard, and answer any questions that come up. 

Every webinar attendee will be offered free site setup for joining us, and CSDA members receive special discounts.

Learn about Streamline Web—the tool that makes having a website easy for special districts in Oregon. Join us on this free one hour webinar to learn about the incredibly easy to use, affordable content management system specifically designed for local government. We'll demonstrate features like the meeting dashboard, agenda reminders, transparency best practices tracking, and answer any questions that come up. We'll also explain how our dedication to "having your back" is expressed through unlimited hosting and support, and district-focused feature development.

Every attendee will be offered free site setup for joining us.