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Projectmates Administrators

There are 3 types of administrators in Projectmates: Site Administrators, Project Administrators, and Co-Administrators.  Knowing the differences between the three can help you when deciding who should get which status.

Site Administrators:This administrator has the highest level of access in Projectmates.  The Site Admin can access any project or user on the system.  They have the capability of permanently deleting projects, changing the look and feel of Projectmates, and granting other users access to Portfolio, Bids/Planroom, Campaigns, and Site Admin areas.

Project Administrators: Each project will have a designated user who is the Project Administrator.  The Project Administrator has full access within that project.  He/She will have the ability to add users and roles, create threads, and assign rights to users in that project.  The changes that a Project Administrator makes to his/her project will only effect that single project. Project Administrators also have the ability to delete or park their own project.  When a new project is first created the Project Administrator will default to the user that is creating the project; however, this user can be changed later.  There can be only one Project Admin per project.

Co-Administrators:The Project Administrator of a project can assign one or more Co-Administrators to help manage the project. Co-Administrators have nearly the same access as Project Administrators.  They too can add users, threads, and grant permissions in the Project.  The differences being, a co-administrator cannot assign other co-administrators or change the project administrator.  They also cannot delete or park the project. These capabilities are reserved solely for the Project Administrator.

Note: The three types of administrators described above do not affect the permissions that a user has to individual threads within a project.  The rights associated with viewing and creating new items in threads are dependent upon a user's ROLE in that particular project.  That being said, any of the administrators above have the ability to change their role in a project so that they have the appropriate rights to threads. 

This holiday season – we present Projectmates User Group! Stay Connected!

There are more articles available online on social networking and the benefits thereof, than there are on the Tiger Woods story! Imagine that! But with enough being said on the topic, I will try to avoid preaching about the merits of virtual business interaction – and get right down to what really seems to work – at least for most businesses. At Projectmates, we created our brand new user group on LinkedIn.com to provide our customers and partners with a platform for interactive communication. We just got started, but it’s been great so far! It’s a great place to go in to share something new you learnt about the industry or to simply reiterate and remind other users about an important best practice in construction management or related topics.

 

Click here to be a part of the Projectmates User Group on LinkedIn.

We love our new user group on LinkedIn already. It’s exciting to be able to give our customers more avenues to reach us and share their thoughts, views and opinions in an informal setting. Everyone has a “Eureka” moment when they come upon a new or fascinating viewpoint, idea or news article that they cannot wait to share with other enthusiastic users on the group. If it benefitted them in some way, it’s sure to benefit others as well. That’s what a user group ought to do – provide something of value to its users.

 

Here’s the wonderful thing about connecting virtually. Sure, you can attend several networking events a year and pocket a100 business cards at every one of them. But in a world where executives are starved for time and companies are adapting strict cost-cutting measures, social networking sites (for the serious networker) is the next best thing to sliced bread and butter. I don’t believe it will or that it should necessarily replace traditional face-to-face interaction. I think the former should complement the latter and reduce them when necessary. It’s important to remember the ‘networking’ part in social networking. So use it to your best advantage! Be active and ‘follow’ activities of your business acquaintances. The next big business opportunity may just come from that!

 

Joining a user group definitely has its benefits. For instance, if you join a Projectmates user group at LinkedIn, you might find yourself automatically connected to several other connections within the construction industry. You may come across familiar names that you would like to hear from or would like to be connected too. One connection leads to several others! We all know that word-of-mouth and references speak much louder than any other marketing tool. Having people endorse you will come in handy when looking for a job or trying to bid on a project within your industry and finding and communicating with key contacts makes all the difference.

 

And finally, you never have to worry about looking for that lost business card again. Just sign into your networking site and get all the information you want about your contact. How easy is that?

 

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