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If you have
this need, challenge or problem: |
Then consider
this feature of OCB: |
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Do your member districts need to
share contract language, job descriptions, salary schedules or
other documents used in the collective bargaining process? |
The Document Induction and
Search engine of OCB enables all the districts to easily share
their CB documents and perform full-text searches across the
entire collection – through a centralized, secure Internet-based
system. |
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Do your member districts have
the problem of locating like or dissimilar districts based on
district demographics, for the purpose of comparison? |
The Demographics feature of OCB
supports loading, searching and comparing districts by their
student, faculty and facilities data. |
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Do your member districts use
bulk email or list-servers to poll each other for information or
opinions in support of collective bargaining? |
The Surveys, Personal Messaging
and Whitepages features of OCB simplifies the survey process and
retains the results in a database format instead of raw emails.
This supports the Universal Search feature of OCB. |
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Do your member districts qualify
for mandated cost reimbursements for the time spent on
collective bargaining? |
The TimeTracker component of OCB
enables all districts to collect CB time in a consistent,
uniform, centralized method that is both easy to use and
efficient for reporting to the State |
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During the research phase of
collective bargaining, are your member districts challenged with
keeping track of all the useful information they have gathered? |
The Annotations feature of OCB
allows each user to attach annotations to every type of
information stored within OCB and easily locate this information
later. |
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While in the middle of
negotiations or bargaining preparation, are you member
district’s staff having to task switch to grievances and other
CB activities and losing their focus on the information? |
The name-sessions save and
resume feature of OCB enables users to switch between
researching CB agreements and resolving grievances or other CB
needs. |
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Do your member district’s
negotiators rely on staff to perform research but then have the
challenge of managing the results in paper or other forms? |
The search-criteria and results
save and reload feature allows users to recall powerful search
criteria for later reuse. These are also attachable to personal
messages and surveys within OCB. |
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Do your member districts find
themselves constantly having to call and email staff and others
to follow-through on CB activities? |
The Survey, Personal Messaging
and Discussions Forums of OCB have facilities to send external
emails with links to bring the target users back into OCB for
specific tasks. |
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Do your member districts find
themselves digging through emails to find interesting ideas that
were shared across many districts? |
The Discussion Forums feature
allows OCB users to share ideas and opinions through Forums,
Topics and Messages that are left for all to read and respond
to, in a structured hierarchical form. |
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Do your member districts find
that they are using several different software programs,
websites and other online means for CB research and preparation
– thus loosing valuable time switching between the dissimilar
software? |
The OCB User Interface, while a
thin-client browser application, enables the users to
jump between all the features of OCB without loosing their place
on any one of the native screens within OCB – throughout their
login session. |
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Do your member districts have a
variety of web sites that they visit for CB needs but often can
not remember what they are or why they use certain ones? |
The Web-Directory feature of OCB
enables users to register websites of interest in
a categorical system with the addition of points-of-interest
that help other users understand the interest of each site. |
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