Professional bodies
Internal communications for professional bodies and their regions
Thousands of members who are nobody's employees, regions with their own committee, and communications that have to be evidenced. Blastack puts them on the phone and keeps the record of who opened them.
€1.00 per person per month · No card · No minimum term
What happens today
The four problems that keep coming up
A member is not an employee
They aren't on the body's payroll, they don't have a work email from it and they are never going to log into a corporate intranet. Any tool that treats them as staff falls over on day one.
The circular goes out and disappears
A regulatory change, a mandatory CPD requirement, a deadline: it goes to thousands of personal addresses, lands in the promotions tab, and nobody knows who actually got it.
Regions run their own house
Each one has its own committee, its own events and its own people, and doesn't want to depend on head office to publish its own things or have head office managing its list.
Committees talk among themselves
Ethics, education, early careers: every committee ends up in a WhatsApp group set up by whoever remembered, with members' details on personal phones.
Use cases
What it gets used for in Professional bodies
- A circular to every member, with the record of who opened it
- Every region with its own home page, colour and administrator, who only sees their own
- Committees and working groups as divisions of their own, not as “departments”
- A document with read receipts when the communication has to be evidenced
- The product's wording: professionals or members, and branches or head offices
- Members join with a code at an admission ceremony, no work account needed
What we don't solve
It isn't the register and it doesn't handle subscriptions
It doesn't hold the register, doesn't collect subscriptions, doesn't issue certificates and doesn't replace your member portal: the list of people is imported and kept up to date, and what Blastack does with it is communicate. On wording, precisely: the word is picked from a closed list and “registrant” isn't on it —the nearest are “professional” and “member”— although each region's own name does appear exactly as you write it. And there is one invoice, in the body's name: no per-region subscription.
Non-profit organisations
Half price for the first year
Co-operatives, associations, federations and clubs pay half for the first twelve months of service: the base fee goes from €1.00 to €0.50 per person per month, and the modules come down the same way. No statutes and no paperwork to send: it is enough to say what you are when you sign up.
It is a first-year reduction, not a new rate. After twelve months the usual price applies again, and the exact date is written on your billing screen from day one.
On the sign-up form, choose “association”: that is the type that fits you, the one that switches the reduction on, and the one that leaves your branches and your committees switched on.
We sent the circular to four thousand members and we knew how many had opened it. With email that was a mystery.
What's included
All of this, from €1.00 per person per month
The noticeboard and the directory are in the base fee. Analytics, surveys, documents and chat switch on separately, at between one and ten cents per person.
Noticeboard and announcements
Posts with photo, video and PDF, targeted by site
Reach analytics
What percentage of your workforce has read each announcement
Surveys and employee engagement
Ask your workforce, with breakdowns and real anonymity
Documents with read receipts
Payslips, procedures and policies with proof of reading
Staff directory
Who is who, by department and by site
Roles and moderation
Who publishes, who approves, and what gets logged
Try it on one site and look at the number
Fifteen days, no card. Hand the code out at one plant, publish two announcements and look at what percentage of people read them.
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