Application & Review Cloud

The Growth Stack for netFORUM

Collect and Manage Submissions for all of your Workflows

Collect, manage, and review submissions online with one system -
Awards Nominations, Call for Speakers, Certifications, Fellowships, Grants Management

Certified Integrations Partner

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netFORUM + Applications and Review

Make the most of your investment of netFORUM with modern tools that adapt to today’s demanding constituents. Now you can easily manage the applications and review process, engage with your community and highlight success.

Nominations & Applications

Applicants are tired of plodding through lengthy and confusing application processes. OpenWater’s online submission tool is designed to create the entry form you need, and improve the user experience, by making the submission process as simple and painless as possible. OpenWater’s application system has been battle tested to handle simple to complex workflows, including allowing for:

  • High resolution file uploads (pictures, videos and documents)
  • Nomination based workflows (I nominate you or I nominate myself)
  • Payments
  • Letters of reference
  • Team based applications
  • Multi-category and dependent fields

Review Committee Portal

Simplify and streamline the review process. With OpenWater, reviewers can go online and access submissions at any time, anywhere, on any device. And admins can create the review forms and processes to fit their program’s exact needs. Highlights of the OpenWater review portal include:
  • Single or multi-round review process
  • Customizable review criteria per program
  • Committee based review capacity (including tiered judging permissions)
  • Save & Return (let’s reviewers save their scoring drafts)
  • Download to PDF (down all or specific applications to PDF to review offline)
  • Full offline judging mode (perfect for in-person judging events)

Administration

There are lots of tools out there to help you build a submission form for your software, but what about administrative needs? OpenWater’s application and review software gives admins the tools and resources to make their program a success. From complete oversight of the process, to communicating with reviewers and nominees, to analyzing your program’s progress, we’ve got you covered. Highlights include:
  • Dashboard
  • Multi-program support (run 1 to 100 awards, call for papers, fellowships or grants)
  • Easy communication (email confirmations, email blasts)
  • Application & review form configuration
  • Customize system phases (need to call your reviewers: Judges? Make it global!)
  • Integrated Website Builder

Reporting & netFORUM

See everything about your contacts in one place. Go way beyond names and job titles. Every interaction with your applicants, reviewers and contacts are stored in a tidy timeline. You’ll never need to dig through a messy inbox or spreadsheet to figure out what’s going on. Some highlights of OpenWater’s CRM and reporting capabilities include:
  • Scheduled email blasts with variables
  • Reporting drill-down
  • Premium analytics (compare program progress year to year)
  • Bulk download files to zip
  • Track conversations, calls and emails
  • Export to Excel, CSV, PDF, HTML and JSON

Integrations with netFORUM

At OpenWater, we understand the underlying value of integration, that's why we are a proud partner of Community Brands and have done extensive work with netFORUM. Some examples of integrations include:
  • Single Sign On (similar to ‘login with facebook’ only with your system)
  • Pull data into OpenWater (pre-fill application data in OpenWater with your data)
  • Push data to your system from OpenWater
  • Field-lookups (member/contact lookups)
  • Member Discounts

Publicity and Engagement

Managing a program is half the battle, ensuring a diverse applicant pool for each of your workflows is another. Each program you run through OpenWater is an important source of information, as well as a great marketing tool that can drive nominations/applications and elevate your awards / grants / fellowship's reputation. OpenWater’s software helps ensure you get the most out of your website at every stage in the process, giving the ability to publicize what’s going on — from the call for entry, to judging/review announcements, to winner selection. Features include:
  • Content Management System
  • Social media integration (make it easy to share content)
  • Responsive Design (works on device)
  • Automatically updated searchable winners gallery
  • Automatically generated Online Program (call for speakers)
  • Sponsorship highlights
  • Email blasts

Supercharge netFORUM with OpenWater

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