LAKEWOOD RANCH — As part of a redesign that includes new software, Digital Village will soon be able to allow its more than 5,000 users to customize the site to include the top things they use the most.
A survey will be sent out Friday to registered users, inviting their opinions on how they would like the “My Corner” part of the intranet site to look, said Jan Hatfield, business and community development director for Resident Interactive, the company which wrote the software for Digital Village and now manages it.
“It is our hope to launch the new design mid August,” Hatfield said. “The new software will know exactly who you are when you are logged in, what village, district and neighborhood you live in, and it can pull the most important information to your personalized page.
“The purpose of the survey we are sending out on Friday to the residents is to determine what that information should be,” Hatfield added.
“I’m excited to get their input and see what they come up with.”
Events, clubs, classified, merchant information and activities can be a click away, Hatfield said.
“The whole purpose is so residents can get 95 percent of the information they want in one place without a lot of clicks,” Hatfield added.
One interested party is Bob Fernandez, Lakewood Ranch’s community manager.
Fernandez said this week that Town Hall plans to use the capabilities of the new redesign to get more governance information into residents’ hands.
“We can put anything on there we want now, including surveys that we might need,” said Jean Stewart, a member of the Lakewood Ranch Interdistrict Authority Board. “I think it will be great.”
Minutes from meetings might get to the new site quicker, Stewart said.
Lakewood Ranch residents are charged $10 per year out of their homeowner association fees for Digital Village, which is not expected to change, Stewart said.
One of the differences between an intranet, like Digital Village’s www.LWRDV.com,, and the Internet, is that intranets are usually for registered users only and are password protected.
Digital Village, which started in 2002, provides residents with information on upcoming events, governance documents, club updates and more. Richard Dymond, Herald reporter, can be reached at 708-7917.
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