Membee’s Directory – Search, Map, & Mobile Friendly!

Posted on September 13, 2017 in Associations, Chambers, Feature Updates, Membership, Nonprofit

Come check out a 3-minute overview video of Membee’s Directory and learn more about Google Map Integration which makes searching in your directory a breeze! All on this week’s Latest Buzz blog post!

Membee’s Directory has quite a few awesome features that you need to know about! The Directory is not only a list of your members, it can be a invaluable search tool and resource for your organization. Membee’s Directory’s features include:

Stronger Google Map Integration
Redesigned Advanced Search
New Advanced Search capabilities
Mobile Friendly Design

Watch this short overview video about Membee’s Directory and all of its powerful features:

Google Map Integration Comes to Search Results

Did you know that Membee’s directory has Google Map integration built right into the search results?! Not only can visitors search for members and get a list of results, the results will also show on a map making it easier to see exactly where that member is located.

For example: In the screenshot below we searched for “bank”

Personalize!

You can configure the pin color that is displayed on the map to make your sponsored and featured members stand out on the map!

In the example above, the pin color of green is for sponsored listings and the color orange is for any featured listings. All other listings have a pin color of red. You can control which color to use for the pins as part of the widget settings.

Advanced Search Options

You can choose to add one or more of the following to your advanced search for your directory:

Category
Cities
States/Provinces
Country
Directory Parameters
User Defined Fields (UDFs) from member records

By extending Membee’s powerful member’s categorization features (UDFs) to your member directory, you extend the same powerful filtered capabilities, you enjoy in Membee to site visitors searching your directory. This makes it very easy for site visitors to find a specific group of members that meet a more refined search criteria.

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Advanced search options makes it a lot easier for your members to narrow down exactly what they are looking for!

For example in the screenshot above a member narrowed their search for “banks” down to the Chicago area only, so they only had to sift through 6 results, as shown in the screenshot directly above and directly below.

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What is Responsive Design?

Responsive design means that your website and all of its features work on your pc, tablet and mobile device by adjusting the content to fit the screen that it is being viewed in.

The benefits of having this are:

No added cost; all the widgets are already included as part of your subscription cost
No need for an App to be designed
You can maintain on the website

To enhance the visitor experience, your entire website should use a responsive design. If you would like to learn more about responsive design, here’s a link that contains some great information:

http://responsivedesign.ca/

Mobile Friendly Design

With Membee’s Directory widget being responsive, and your website now too, any visitor that is accessing your New Member sign-up page can use their PC, tablet or smartphone to do so. This makes it substantially easier for visitors of your site to become full blown members!

In short, Membee’s New Member widget now simply adjusts to the size of the screen the visitor is using. The great thing about responsive design is that you maintain everything in one spot – you don’t need to develop or maintain a mobile site or app. Having a single website that works everywhere offers significant savings over creating multiple native mobile apps and provides your visitor with a great experience.