Local Information Network for Community Services

LINCS is a unique and highly specialised electronic directory system designed to allow local councils and other organisations to co-operate in publishing high quality community directories. Information on services, events and non-geographical information like answers to common questions can be integrated into a single knowledge base.

Originally developed with a consortium of Sydney Inner West councils the product has grown to include many councils in Greater Sydney and in Western Australia.

Specialist offshoots of LINCS are used by Commonwealth Carelink Centres, The NSW Council for Intellectual Disabilities, The NSW Association for Mental Health and The Salvation Army.

With LINCS you can:

• Reduce duplication of effort by co-operating with other like-minded organisations.
• Link the accessible, standards compliant search engine (xhtml) to your web site and style it with your colours and logo.
• Easily publish printed directories with automatic index generation.
• Search your directory offline with the LINCS disk version.
• Update information quickly, easily and efficiently using email, letters or faxes.
• Produce detailed statistical reports of how your directory is being used.

Services

Free Trial

We offer a free trial use of the system to allow you to fully assess the software for your needs. This includes transfer of your current database so that you can make this assessment based on your own records.

One flat annual fee

The flat annual fee for the software includes an unlimited user network licence, support, training, initial data transfer (if you have an existing database or spreadsheet), all web traffic charges, upgrades and maintenance. There are no other charges.

Training and Support

Training and support is organised over the internet using web based screen sharing software and there is also comprehensive documentation available.