Management Made Easy

OurTown Web Manager makes it incredibly easy for municipalities to keep their residents informed and engaged. This simple yet powerful Content Management System (CMS) is designed with local government in mind, allowing staff to quickly and effortlessly update their website with the latest news, meeting minutes, and community events.

Because the platform is so intuitive, even those without technical expertise can manage the site with ease, freeing up valuable time and resources. This efficiency allows village, town, and county officials to focus on what truly matters: serving their community and running their local government, confident that their residents have a quick and reliable source for all the information they need.

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Checks All the Boxes

As a municipality, you're tasked with the critical responsibility of maintaining a wealth of public information. From mandated documents and official meeting minutes to public notices and contact details for departments and officials, this essential data must be easily accessible to residents. At the same time, you're a promoter of your community, highlighting the wonderful events and unique places that make your town a vibrant place to live and visit.

Keeping both residents and visitors informed and engaged is a constant balancing act. The OurTown Web Manager is the solution that simplifies this complex task, allowing you to manage all your required information while also showcasing the best of your community in one centralized, easy-to-use platform.

Feature Packed

OurTown Web Manager is a feature-rich software designed to meet the comprehensive needs of any municipality. Its intuitive structure includes dedicated sections for Government, Departments, and Community, ensuring all information is organized and easy to navigate.

The platform boasts robust Document and Multimedia libraries, allowing for effortless uploading, downloading, and viewing of important files and media. Engagement is streamlined through built-in contact forms, while critical information can be highlighted using alert crawlers and pop-up windows for high-priority messages. The system comes equipped with an extensive suite of modules, including Content pages, Photo Albums, Resource Lists, Frequently Asked Questions, News, Job Postings, Event Calendars, and Staff Bios, with more powerful features always in development. The system also can tie in all your Social Media accounts like Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn.

To ensure full compliance and transparency, the platform also provides simple, built-in solutions for managing Terms of Use, Accessibility, and Privacy & Cookie Policies, making it an all-in-one solution for effective municipal communication.

Customizable...if needed

The OurTown Web Manager (OTWM) is designed for rapid deployment, allowing a municipality to have a professional and functional website up and running in as little as one day. The out-of-the-box solution provides all the essential features needed to fulfill a municipality's core communication obligations from the start.

For those with more complex needs, the "Plus" version, OTWM+, offers enhanced features and greater administrative controls to manage a larger volume of information and data. Beyond its structured framework, Ourtown Web Manager is a remarkably flexible platform. It can be fully customized to meet the unique needs of a specific community, whether that means creating new, temporary sections for high-priority projects like a "Highway Project" or "Storm Damage" to quickly provide residents with critical updates and information. This combination of speed, power, and adaptability.

Add-Ons

To enhance the core functionality, OTWM offers add-on solutions for critical areas like ADA compliance and AI integration.

ADA Compliance

OTWM's accessibility solutions are designed to help municipalities meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by adhering to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). These tools assist in making the website perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust for all users, including those with disabilities. Key features may include:

  • Automated checkers and overlays: These tools can identify and address accessibility issues.

  • Image alt-text and video captions: The platform may offer features to easily add descriptive text for images and captions for videos, which are crucial for screen readers and hearing-impaired users.

  • Keyboard navigation: Ensuring the website can be fully navigated without a mouse is a key part of compliance.

  • High-contrast modes and text resizing: Providing options to adjust the visual display for users with low vision or color blindness.

AI Chatbot Agents

Integrating an AI chatbot can significantly improve resident service and engagement. These conversational AI agents can be trained on the municipality's public documents, FAQs, and website content to provide instant, 24/7 assistance to residents.

  • Instant answers: Chatbots can quickly answer common questions about services, permits, or upcoming events without staff intervention.

  • Improved efficiency: By handling routine inquiries, the AI chatbot frees up municipal staff to focus on more complex tasks.

  • Enhanced user experience: Residents get immediate access to information, leading to higher satisfaction.

  • Integration with existing systems: An AI bot can be built to integrate with existing municipal data, providing more accurate and relevant information.

Did we mention... Free Updates for Life?

And here is the best part, by having  a hosted OurTown Web Manager site, your municipality benefits from receiving continuous, free updates. The OTWM software is constantly evolving, with new features and improvements being added all the time.

For example, if your municipality was using OTWM just last month, you would have automatically received the latest upgrades, which included powerful enhancements such as the new multi-alert crawler, hooks for seamless third-party software integration, the sophisticated new MultiMedia module, and an optimized template engine. This ensures your municiaplity website is always running a faster, more feature-capable, and continuously enhanced version of the software, without any extra effort or cost for the upgrades.

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