The OpenWater Blog

What We’re Reading: January 18

This week we’re reading… The Best Way to Maximize In-Person Interactions at Events Click here to read the article. One of the greatest downfalls of any event is the limited […]

Resources for Motivated Awards Professionals: January 15

Are you ready for your weekly dose of resources to continue to grow your events business? Hopefully you are because this week we’re covering all of the regular bases with […]

What We’re Reading: January 11

This week we’re reading… 4 Tips for Providing Proper Medical Care at Events Click here to read the article. Getting your audience to sign up for events is one challenge […]

Resources for Motivated Awards Professionals: January 8

It’s time to expand and refine your marketing/event planning/IT management/project coordination skills once again in our favorite article of the week: Resources for Motivated Awards Professionals! This week includes information […]

New Feature: Premium Analytics

We recently rolled out an update to help organizations understand how their awards programs are running. Our analytics package provides a few simple stats to compare awards performance against your […]

New Feature Update: Edit Name of Field Field

When we rolled out our file caption field, we created a hard coded label “Name of File” Almost immediately we got word that this naming was confusing, but we stumbled […]

Shortcut to Submit to More than 1 category and Price Rule to Accommodate discounts

To make it easier for an entrant to submit to more than one category, we’ve enabled a shortcut to those customers using our Copy Submission feature. By turning this on, […]

Print All Applications Shortcut and Printing of Incomplete Submissions

As an administrator, sometimes you need to archive all submission form data to PDF. Going into each submission and exporting to PDF can take hours. With this week’s update we’ve […]

Improved Judge Reports

Prior to this update you needed to be an Excel wizard and would have to export data from both the submissions and judges to get the kind of data you […]

Configure Rendering of Application Name when using first name + last name

When using two text fields for your application name field we have always defaulted this to LastName, FirstName. Customers have been clamouring us to improve this functionality. We’ve rolled out […]