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Kings Point Community Communications Go Global
By Melody Jameson mitch@observernews.net
Sep 21, 2006, 16:13
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KINGS POINT – The long-standing grapevine here has been updated.
With launch of its own colorful, comprehensive and highly navigable website last week, KP’s 9,000 or so retirees have joined the global village - and enhanced their community communications with interactive 21st century electronics.
They now have access to a trio of communications tools unprecedented in their 35-year history. The website joins a new internal television channel – 95 - and a recently-initiated computer e-mail network dubbed KP Info, to create free-flowing, two-way means of staying in touch.
KPSCC.COM is the latest in a series of innovations undertaken by the KP Federation’s board of directors in the last half year aimed at assuring transparency in governance and clear communications across the community. Meeting the objective fulfills a pledge made when a coalition of five reform candidates for board seats campaigned successfully early in 2006.
The new communications system still includes Channel 20, another televised internal information vehicle providing a schedule of activities slated within the community in a scrolling power point format, according to Ruth Flinn, vice chairman of the federation’s communications committee. There are no plans to alter Channel 20 which is maintained by clubhouse personnel and transmitted to residents via cable, Flinn indicated.
The multi-paged website, in development for several months, is the result of concerted efforts by both volunteers and a commercial firm, Flinn said. It was designed by E Solutions Corporation, a company specializing in such creations, and will be hosted by the company, meaning KP information is stored in E Solutions computers, she added. But funds to get it up and running, for example, were contributed by the KP Condominium Owners Association (COA). And a team of volunteers are to be trained to keep the website current, Flinn said.
