BoardEffect vs MERL Mobile

The Leading Board Portal for Volunteer Leadership Worldwide. Make your boardroom truly paperless. BoardEffect’s iOS App connects to your BoardEffect board portal. The App allows your board members to: - Download meeting packets - Fully annotate meeting materials including “sticky notes,” drawing, highlighting, underlining, and strike-through - Read and annotate meeting packets both online and offline - Print or email their meeting packets from the App (optional) - View the full contact directory including members’ head shots, biographies, and contact details - View files from your BoardEffect portal’s Resource Library (iPad only) - Download and annotate your Board Handbook, including bylaws, policies, and other documents The BoardEffect iOS App is free and works in conjunction with your secure BoardEffect web-based portal. For more information about BoardEffect, contact us at (866) 672-2666.

MERL Mobile combined with MERL desktop software, provides engineers and inspectors a powerful set of tools to enable job management on the go. Engineers and inspectors can review past postings, enter new daily postings, and submit their postings for download to the database – all from the job site, or anywhere in-between. Key Features • Access uploaded contracts from cloud storage. • Review project posting history. • Enter daily project posting. • Recognizes and responds to iOS voice to text features. • Submit completed work to cloud storage. App Requirements • Internet connection • MERL Cloud Key (available from the Center for Technology & Training) • MERL desktop software (5.3.0 or higher) • Requires iOS 9.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPad. Note: Use of MERL Mobile requires a licensed copy of MERL software (desktop). For more information about obtaining a licensed copy of MERL desktop, please go to our website http://merl.michiganltap.org/about.