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Greetings from the MyTeamCaptain Family of Companies and Synchronous Technologies
Volume 3 :: Edition 5 :: 02 Jun 2008


Project Management Made Easy, Finally.

Gone are the complicated days of managing the tasks of your life on your own. From the tedious to-do lists that come with being a team captain to all the little jobs in your social and family life - our new project management system simplifies it all for you. Read below to see how it works.

Want to know about all the cool features we are currently working on? Check the "On The Burner" section at the bottom of the newsletter.

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Technology Update

1.  New Project Manager.  A few months ago, one of our MyNetworkCircle users made a request to have a way for team coordinators to keep track of projects and tasks inside their account. 

We are pleased to introduce our new Project Management Tool. This tool was designed to help you manage those projects and tasks associated with the groups in your account.

You can find the Project  Management Tool in the Projects section which we cleverly placed on the Forum page. Just look for the wrench icon .


The new Project Manager

Here are some high level features provided in the Project Management Tool:
  • Control which team members can create projects
  • Name category titles for your projects
  • Get your projects started on the right foot:
    • create the project
    • assign a project manager
    • set project due date
    • add the members of the project team
  • View projects based on advanced filtering capabilities
  • Quickly see if a project is waiting on a team member to complete the next step
  • Set up tasks inside each project (like a to-do list)
  • Easily update projects, including uploading files all from one screen
The best way to get familiar with the Projects function is to test it out.  Create a project, make some updates, and see for yourself how easy it is to use!


2.  More stuff on your Team Website Homepage.  Your homepage has some cool dynamic data at the bottom of it now.  Your 5 next events and the latest news item are shown, along with a form that your visitors can use to contact you.  This contact form hides your email address, so you won't have to worry about the world seeing it.


Cool new stuff on your team website homepage

3.  Email payment reminders to players/group member.  On the Active Teams/Groups page, you can now include a "gentle" reminder of how much player/member owes you with an email you send.


Payment reminders are as easy as checking a box

4.  Create new locations when adding events.  We just added a quick way for you to add a location to your seasons when inputting data for new events.  Simply select the "Create New Location" option for the location of the event.


Easily create new locations when you add events


On the Burner

1. Pending Members.  We are hard at work on an update that will enable Captain/Group Leader accounts to accept or reject potential members, including website visitors, that apply to become a member of your team.  Once this is in place, when someone new wants to sign up, they won't need to wait for you to send them an invitation - the only need to visit your website, enter their information, and await your approval!

2. Email Importing. We are almost finished with a hot new tool that enables users to import existing contacts from Gmail, Yahoo, and MSN/Hotmail email accounts.

3.  Surveys.  We're working on a way to send out a survey to all or some of your team members and conveniently compile results.

4. AdCenter. All of the ads served on the MyTeamCaptain network are now using our new AdCenter.  We're working on the interface for advertisers, so stay tuned for the beta release announcement!  In the meantime, if you would like to place a targeted ad on our network of 20 websites, please contact us at sales@myteamcaptain.com.


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Thank you!

As always, we appreciate any feedback you have and hope that you are enjoying MyTeamCaptain and our partner sites! Stay tuned for more upgrades coming soon!

A history of previous upgrade announcements is available on our Technology History page.

Until next time,

Lars and Rocky
Founders, Synchronous Technologies Group Inc.
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