Ascribe Blog

We are pleased to hear we have been nominated for the Business Review’s Innovation Michigan award for 2009.  Its always nice to be recognized for hard work.

Its a funny thing about innovative ideas.  In general, the more “Innovative” the idea, the more difficult it is to gain acceptance.  The world seems like “slightly Innovative” ideas better because they are easier to swallow, and they don’t make you quite as nervous.  The metric system was an Innovative idea, but that didn’t get very far here in the states.  We hope the award for innovation is given to the biggest, most ground breaking ideas that have become reality, because ideas are easy, its making them a reality that takes enormous energy and skill.

ShowcaseBuildings.com showcases projects from around the country.  It is an open website for any company to showcase their best work for FREE!  ShowcaseBuildings.com now syncs their projects with Free, Lite, and Standard Ascribe accounts, so everyone can take part!  So if you are looking for some free exposure for your company, get your free Ascribe account and sync your Showcase with this fantastic site.  A new showcase project is being added to ShowcaseBuildings.com almost every 30 minutes!  Find, and Be Found!

Congratulations goes out to Cathy Bickle @ Brandt Construction. You are this months winner!! Call 616-726-2490 by November 30, 2008 to claim your iPod.

We are pleased to announce that Ascribe has just released its new Awards Manager for Industry Associations and other institutions that run awards programs around construction projects. The Awards manager gives the association an online management tool to organize and display awards on their website.

Create award categories and show award entries on the association’s website.  Select and publish a winner and the website will be dated to show the winner, instead of the entries.  People can even vote for their favorite entries right from the website.  Check out these new awards displays:  

American Institute of Architects - Michigan Chapter

Associated Builders and Contractors - Grand Valley Chapter

The HQ has been busy in the last few weeks working to get the new business card feature up and running.  Although our integrated websites have not yet been completely converted, you may have noticed that the “marks” have now been replaced by a business card when you mouse over a company name.  The business card features your company logo, role on that project, company contact information, and links to your company’s homepage and portfolio (see below).  We’re really excited about this new feature and we hope you are, too!

In The News:

You may have read about us in the latest issue of MiBiz Portal - Technopreneurs Section, pg. 8.  Click this link to read full article titled “Virtual Construction Zone”.

User Resources:

We now have video tutorials available to help guide you through Ascribe’s many features.  Currently we are in the process of developing a support section for our users on our website that will give you easier access to these and many more helpful items.  We will keep you posted as to when this user section will be up and running.

Click on the links below to view our series of “How To” videos: 

Company Settings

Sending Project Invites

Joining a Project

Modify your Mark Pointer

Removing a Project

Uploading Photos

Adding a Project

Project Groups

As always, we value your input, so let us know how we are doing by sharing with us your comments or suggestions.  Keep sending those referrals and project invites!  All of our Ascribe users thank you.