Severnside Housing is working with West Midlands-based 7video over the next 12 months to develop its online digital strategy through a series of videos aimed at tenants and employees. The suite of films is intended to deliver information and advice in an engaging and informative way, eliminating the need for paper-based documents and enabling Severnside…
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General News
Editor’s notes: Speak after the tone…
Almost exactly a year after we first raised the subject of technology standards, the Housing Technology Standards (HTS) are beginning to take shape, with the publication (see opposite page) of the draft aims of HTS v1.0… still a long way to go, though. This is an ambitious but very worthwhile project. If successful, it will…
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Launch of Housing Technology standards – join now!
Housing Technology is delighted to announce the launch of our programme to develop independent technology standards for application and system integration within housing. The goal is the formation of an independent Housing Technology Standards Board which would be responsible for the creation of data communication and transfer protocols which are open, free and supplier-neutral. This…
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Tangled up in technology
Comedian, author and TV & radio presenter Dominic Holland, one of the keynote speakers at our Housing Technology 2015 conference next March, shares his thoughts on the latest ‘smart’ technologies. Housing and where we live has always been a good benchmark for our place in the world – our rung on the ladder so to…
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Women’s Pioneer Housing’s office clearance with Invu
One year after it implemented an electronic document management system from Invu, Women’s Pioneer Housing has reported on how it has automated its finance function and digitised its invoices and tenancy records at the same time as creating valuable space in its central London offices. WPH decided last year that it had had enough of…
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GGP GIS links to Google & Bing web mapping
GGP Systems has linked its geographic information system (GIS) to web mapping portals such as Google Maps and Bing Maps with a simple click-to-view tool. Designed to improve integration between GGP’s professional GIS and popular internet mapping services, it automatically links the current working window of the GGP GIS to the same location on the…
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