Chris Sturm speaks on Winning NKY Chamber Success Award

Simple Way to Learn the Internet

I found a cool book style designed web publication that explains the 20 most common things about the Internet in simple terms.  I strongly recommend everyone reading this book.

http://www.20thingsilearned.com/en-US/home

Team Capsoft.us Runs for Patriots

The ladies of the Capsoft.us running team took to the course this 4th of July in the Edgewood KY Patriot Race. The team looked strong in this 5K challenge.

Jill, enlisted our the two oldest Sturm daughters, Payton 13, Ciara 10 to join in the race and they did great.  Each of them finished the race in under 30 minutes and came in 2nd and 3rd in their age groups.  Chris as usual watched from the crowd with the younger 2 daughters. 

The Capsoft.us team encourages everyone to get out this July 4th and celebrate our great country with friends and family.

Capsoft.us remembers work and fun when traveling

The Capsoft team visited customer, the City of Montgomery Alabama on Friday while in route to florida.  The fun part was getting a guided tour of the city from our hosts Chuck and Cindy Wilson.  Many people think of the civil rights history in Montgomery like the Rosa Parks museum but we saw so much more.

Anyone know this building?  This was the president's home for the confederacy during the Civil War.  Montgomery is the Capital of the State of Alabama and below is the Capitol building.  Visit and you will be amazed that every building is pure white.

Montgomery is home to the late great county music legend, Hank Williams.  The Capsoft team and the Sturm family joined the tour for pictures.  The grave has amazing details etched in marble.

the military has always played an important part of Montgomery so next we visited the Maxwell Airforce base for some awesome pictures of past aircraft.

Many do not realize the Wright Brothers opened their flight school here in Montgomery.

Imagine flying a WWI bomber, a huge helicopter or check out this HUGE B2 bomber.

What an amazing tour.  Be sure to  visit Montgomery Alabama.

Capsoft.us Cycles for Breast Cancer Cure

The Capsoft team led by Jill Sturm got up early saturday morning to cycle 26 miles along the Ohio river raising money for Breast Cancer Research in the Cincinnati Area.

Jill convinced Chris to bike the full distance and wear his "cool" biking helmet.

It was announced by Senator Rob Portman that thanks to the fundraising efforts of this race, this local chapter had just raised its one millionth dollar.  That is very exciting news for such a worthy cause.

Over 1000 cyclists traveled the beautiful scenery.  Chris commented that he was surprised that he did not see anyone he knew at the event and Jill was quick to remind him that he nor his friends exercise.  Chris' favorite part of the race was the Gatorade and PB&J sandwiches at the rest stop.

Capsoft is proud to support worthy causes such as this race.



Pennsylvania GFOA learns Query Writing

The Pennsylvania Government Finance Officers Association offered a Visual Reporting session at their 2011 spring conference taught by Chris Sturm, Capsoft, and Dennis McGovern of McGovern Consulting.  Over 45  finance officers participated in this multi-hour session.

"It was an exciting session because we taught the students how things work behind the scenes," commented Sturm.  "This approach puts them on better footing when they need to interact with their vendors."

Dennis McGovern led with topics including integrating financial statement with Excel for eye popping charts and graphs.  "I wanted to keep things usable.  We have found that users are often discouraged with trying to use visual tools in their financial reporting because it seems difficult," says McGovern. "I wanted to break down those barriers and show them how quality fund accounting products like Sage MIP make interaction with products like Excel easy and friendly."

Chris Sturm added sections on query writing, crystal reports creation, internet based reports and new audio visual tools on the market.

To learn more about visual reporting for government you can contact 

Dennis McGovern / McGovern Consulting Group 888-876-1544

Chris Sturm / Capsoft / 888-553-9991

Capsoft Advanced Property Tax for Maryland

Capsoft is welcoming the City of Aberdeen, Maryland as the newest Capsoft property tax billing software user.

Penny will lead the Aberdeen team as they process over 5,000 real and personal property tax bills.  The Capsoft system is using the new assessment import wizard to creat a map for the Maryland state assessment file.  This import wizard will give Penny total control over the import process which is something only provided by Capsoft.  While onsite for training, Penny told the Capsoft team that she believes the Internet search and pay portion will have a big impact.  She fields over 20 calls per week from mortgage and title companies that now will go to the Internet site.

Capsoft welcomes The City of Aberdeen, home of Cal Ripken's training stadium.  It is cool, you should check it out.