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This Thursday, September 29th, at 7:00 PM we will be demoing GeniePad for about 10 minutes in Edmonton at the 15th DemoCamp.

If you have any questions, would like to chat with us in person, or just see GeniePad in action, feel free to stop by and say hi!

You can find all the details here: http://www.startupedmonton.com/category/democamp-2/

Looking forward to seeing you there!

We would like to thank everyone that has submitted an entry for our draw to win a $50 gift certificate to Home Depot. After going through the submitted testimonials, we posted some of them throughout our website. 

And the winner of our first contest is Linda McDougall, who is an owner at The Century in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. You can view her testimonial below.

Linda McDougall

Owner, The Century

I love receiving the latest news regarding the building through GeniePad. We can ask questions and receive answers in a timely manner, and share information privately. It keeps me up to speed with special events and also with information that may be of concern to me. If I need general information about the building I can go to the website without bothering others. This is an enviro-friendly way to send and receive information. I hope we continue using GeniePad. I am going to suggest it to the board for a condo I own in a different area.

We are always looking for fresh testimonials. Please send us a brief testimonial/feedback to info@geniepad.com, along with your name, position (board member, property manager, owner, tenant, etc), and the name of your building. If you feel comfortable, please send us your photo as well, so we can add you to our customer wall :)  With this information we can provide a better service to you, our clients.

UPDATE: We have extended the deadline of the contest to September 2, 2011 and the prize has doubled to $50.00

Hi Everyone! 

Recently we decided it would be a great idea to let you, our customers, share your thoughts, opinions and feedback on GeniePad. 

Let us know how it improved your condominium community, ability to access information, communication, and any other differences you have noticed, for a chance to win a $50.00 Gift Card from Home Depot (can be used in North America)!

We will share some of the testimonials on our brand new customer wall! Check it out here - Our Customer Wall

To be entered into the draw, simply send us your name, position (board member, property manager, owner, tenant, etc),  the name of your building and a brief testimonial/feedback along with your photo to info@geniepad.com.

The contest ends on September 2nd, 2011 so get your entries in as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance for your submissions,

Rafal Dyrda

Co-Founder, GeniePad.com

Here at GeniePad, we are always committed to providing the best possible solution to our clients.  We are happy to report that a new feature has been added to your GeniePad communication portal.

Many property managers and board members have requested a feature that will allow them to assign and track tasks within their building.  So we listened, planned, developed, and now you have this brand new feature! 

The Tasks feature is available to administratos such as board members and property managers. You can create, assign and track the tasks and their history. 

We invite you to view our tutorial video to take full advantage of this new feature. 

This is the first part of the Tasks functionality. We already have some additions planned that we will implement in the coming months. But before we do that, we would love to hear any feedback you may have at the moment. 

Enjoy,

The GeniePad Team 

We are working on some great new features to help condominium boards, homeowner associations, and property managers in managing tasks, items, and jobs. We will be releasing these new features in small phases.

Over the weekend we released the first update, which may break old links that you may have bookmarked, or received via e-mail notifications. We did our best to make this update as seamless as possible, but unfortunately in order to bring new features to GeniePad there was no way we could go around it. Most of the recent updates are in the background not really noticeable, but necessary for the new features.

One update that will be noticeable, is the ability to see other registered residents in a unit when approving new user accounts. This will provide a quick overview of users registered in the current unit or apartment before approving new users.

We have added a new theme you can use for your condominium or home owners associations (HOA) website. The theme is called Opportunity and was provided by OS Templates. In order to change the look of your website and select this theme, you can simply do so under the administrative section of your GeniePad account. As a reminder, only board members, administrators, and property managers are able to make this happen.

Overview

This theme comes with a default image as you see on the screenshot below. If you would like to upload a photo of your building, or an image of your choosing, you can do so after you select your condominium website theme.

There are four easily accessible buttons to the most used features within GeniePad to the right of the image.  These links are only accessible after a secured login by a registered resident of your building

The home page consists of recent public news announcements, as well as a space for additional content.  To add another page or change the content, simply log into GeniePad and view the website maintenance page in the administrative section. The side bar consists of links to your latest public news announcements as well as classifieds.

Screenshot