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Fairbanks technology company automates task of monitoring state government Third Sector Technologies provides customized e-mail messenging to enable subscribers to keep track of state topics
Fairbanks-based Third Sector Technologies has harnessed the power of the Internet to keep tabs on what the Legislature is doing in Juneau.
AlaskaLegis.com is a subscription-based information service that helps businesses, nonprofit agencies, public agencies, lobbyists and their clients organize and track legislation in Juneau, according to Doug Toelle, CEO, and Brian Rogers, CFO.
E-mail messenging keeps subscribers informed A bill tracker feature automatically generates e-mail messages to subscribers whenever there is action on bills the client has designated, Toelle said.
Subscribers can research state government, find contact information for officials and link to related sites, the company said.
AlaskaLegis.com messaging features make it easy to set up a mailing list to keep interested parties informed on developments in Juneau, or to send messages to legislators and state officials, the company said.
Also, according to the company, subscribers have password-protected, 24-hour access to their own customized information.
The news link feature gathers news from state and national news sources and provides quick links for writing letters to editors, the company said.
The system is set up to be self-administered by the organizationís legislative chairperson or advocate, the company said.
Bringing nonprofits into information age Third Sector Technologies specializes in providing technology solutions to meet the needs of nonprofit organizations and government agencies that deliver human services, the company said.
The company has received seed capital from the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation and completed a $500,000 preferred stock offering in June.
“The private offering will go toward product development and other company efforts,” Rogers said.
The company employs 17 people in Fairbanks, three in Anchorage and a part-time staff in Juneau, Rogers said.
Microsoft creates more useful Web-magazine Slate, the Web-based magazine published by the Microsoft Network, has added a suite of new tools that make it more useful to its readers.
The magazine, in its new format, may provide the template for Web content providers that seek to offer large volumes of information to be organized in a way that is meaningful to the user.
Readers can save a text-only version of an article to a site called Driveway.com, where it can be retrieved using any Web-connected computer or add it to a personalized version of the magazine called “My Slate.”
Readers can e-mail the article to themselves or others, print an all-text version formatted for standard paper or store the article for use in one of the eBook devices Microsoft is bringing to market.
Finally, there is a feature called “Listen” that converts the article to an audio file using text-to-speech technology.
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