We built our recovery system and continue to improve it.
Category: Our System
Koin 6 news
Danny Peterson, from Koin 6 news, did a great interview last week to share more about our organization and how we helped during the winter storm of 2021. To learn more click on this link.
Oregon is 1000+ strong
Celebrating 1000 Oregon Volunteers in our web app system
Upgraded Backend
During the last few months we were working on some changes for the backend to allow our volunteers to coordinate their efforts with ease. Starting now, when our volunteers received a text message with a ticket assigned to them it only announces a recovery is in progress and a personalized link that includes their login…
How to request a recovery!
In this video we demonstrate how to request a recovery.
How does this works?
By now most of you understand we don’t use facebook to organize our recoveries. That’s what we used to do when we started years ago. Our facebook page is now mostly to chat and share photos and tips across volunteers. Our organization is now 100% relying on our web-app system to coordinate recovery efforts. We…
Integration Completed
We finally completed our integration with Twilio giving us the tools we needed to coordinate efforts with our volunteers. The new system is fully integrated and from within our system connects our volunteers with us in two-way directions. This part of the project was in the works for about 45 days, and finally last week…
Mapping our Data
We recently updated our web-app to help us map the location of our members. It is a slow process since we need to wait for each user to log in on the web-app, but while doing this, I thought it was a good idea to map the data we have so far, only about 10%,…
Why do we need your help?
A few years ago we started building our group using just facebook. Our group grew to a few thousand members, and although facebook is great to reach people, it lacks what we need. We recently figured we needed a better tool, designed to better utilize our resources and also better serve the requests. Our current…
Be able to reach out!
For the last ten years, I had this with me on all my excursions, big or small. I won’t leave the house on my motorcycle or jeep without it. A few years ago, a guy died after falling from his motorcycle and getting trapped on the side of the road by his 700-pound vehicle crushing…