Webinars

The RideAmigos Academy hosts regular webinars for its members, including anyone who manages transportation-related programs using RideAmigos technology. Check out our monthly Office Hours series for product news and announcements, community conversations, and opportunity to share your experiences and questions.

Previous Webinars

Pre-Tax, Subsidies, & Partnerships – Exploring Win-Win Benefits | SLOCOG

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Gain a better understanding of transit/vanpool pre-tax fringe commuter benefits or non-reportable income subsidies under federal law. Hosted by Peter Williamson of SLOCOG / iRideshare.

Office Hours 11/15/17 – Vanpool Tools & App Updates

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This month's office hours will cover new additions to our mobile in-app incentives redemption system and more updates to our vanpool tools.

Gohio’s Successful Summer Commuter Challenge 2017

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Learn about how MORPC planned, advertised, and executed a commuter challenge that showed almost double year-over-year growth. Great examples of how to entice individuals and teams to participate through rewards and prizes. Lots of good Q&A from other challenge organizers from across the country who also use the RideAmigos platform.

Office Hours 10/18/17

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In this webinar we discuss upcoming updates to the Commute Tracker app regarding in-app code redemptions from incentives and a workflow update to redeeming basic digital items in point programs. Also covered: analytics, surveys, network management, and donuts.

Commuter Benefit Solutions + RideAmigos

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See how RideAmigos is working with Commuter Benefit Solutions to provide an easy way to work with both these systems to provide maximum impact.

Office Hours 9/20/17

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This month we covered bulk trip confirmation in the Commute Tracker app, gave a quick review of vanpool management, and answered several great questions about future Commute Tracker updates, the possibility of in-platform mass email, and how to use video files in content fields.

RideAmigos + Scoop Integration

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Jeff Chernick, RideAmigos CEO, and David Weisman, Scoop Director of Business Development, share how their two teams are working together to transform transportation.

Office Hours 7/19/17 – Bring Your Questions!

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Hey Amigos! This month's Office Hours webinar was a chance for you to bring any and all of your questions to ask and share. Highlights include end-user registration options, some previews of beta & upcoming features, event scheduling, user notes and more. Grant, Corey, and Matt provide both answers and entertainment!

Office Hours 6/21/17 – Strava Integration, Open Forum

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Grant Heger, Director of Client Services, highlighting our new Strava integration option and giving the opportunity to Ask Grant Anything.

Feature Updates for Challenges and Vanpools

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This Coffee Talk kicks off what will become a new series of "office hours" events, held every third Wednesday. Grant Heger, Director of Client Services, will discuss and demo product updates to our Challenges and Vanpool Administration modules, along with setting aside time for answering any questions you may have about anything pertaining to the RideAmigos platform.

All Star Challenge | SLOCOG & SBCAG

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SLO County’s chosen employer representatives will go head-to-head with the best employers of Santa Barbara in this year’s first-ever Bike to Work Week Challenge! We'll get both sides on a Coffee Talk call on May 11th to discuss the challenge, which will run May 15th through 19th.

Fresh Ideas for Promoting Bike Commuting

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Just in time for springtime and bike month, join your friends at the RideAmigos academy as we share our experiences and ideas about encouraging bike commuting. From 30 Days of Biking to Bike-to-Work events, this season is ripe with opportunities for engagement. But sometimes it takes a little more than just a challenge or event to get people out of cars and into human-powered transportation.

Preparing for Bike Month 2017 | SLOCOG & SBCAG

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SLOCOG & SBCAG team up for a great session on preparing for bike month.

Strategies for Large-Scale Challenges

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Running challenges on a large scale is one of the popular uses of the RideAmigos platform. But planning, promoting, and administering such challenges is a complex process. This Coffee Talk will be an opportunity for Academy members that sponsor municipal, regional, or other big challenges to share their experiences and strategize together.

Incentives Make a Difference | SLOCOG

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For this month's event we'll talk about how to keep participation going for the holidays and how to use incentives to change behavior and collect important data.

Using RideAmigos Events for Holiday Rides Home

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Help make your students’ annual holiday migration from dorms to the comfort of home by using RideAmigos Events to create an online ride board.

Spotlight Your Club With Quick Data Pulls | SLOCOG

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Successes/lessons from Rideshare Week, a new feature that lets you sort and pull any type of your user trip log data, and highlighting the Trip Reduction Plan (TRP).

Getting There Together | SLOCOG

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This month's SLOCOG Coffee Talk X focuses on preparations for Rideshare Week, a new earn a bike program, and using the platform to promote carpools and bikepools. Tune in to learn more!

Multiplying TDM Impact Through Collaboration

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At the 2016 conference, RideAmigos sponsored an incredibly successful users group where we brainstormed and discussed ways Academy members can work together to maximize our impact. This Coffee Talk will continue on this theme: combining our strengths through collaboration.

Sub-Networks and Challenges | SLOCOG

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The first ever Coffee Talk X! If you’ve attended a RideAmigos Coffee Talk, this will be similar, but targeted to our local SLO audience. Topics include a quick program inventory of the Back 'N" Forth Club and ow to use networks and challenges to engage your workforce to make smart commute choices.

Reducing Parking Demand at MIT, Using Dashboards to Impact Commuter Behavior

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working with RideAmigos to bolster new commuting benefits at their Cambridge, MA campus, to achieve a 10-15% reduction in parking demand. See how integration with multiple data streams can result in huge increases in logged trips.

Beyond Bike to Work Day, How Google Is Expanding TDM Programs

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Leveraging Bike to Work Day’s popularity is an excellent way to capture new and existing riders to bike to work all month long. Google shares how they used the RideAmigos platform to incentivize Googlers to ride all month long though a Bike2Work Month Challenge, rewarding current bikers and incentivizing new riders to join in the fun.

A Deep Dive Into the Geospatial Side of The Survey Module

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Catherine Sanders with Smart Commute Metro North, a TMA with the Way to Go Program, will demonstrate how she uses the survey module to allocate personalized commute recommendations for employees who opt to participate in an employer survey. This method has shown measured reductions in SOV trips, and has received a lot of positive feedback from employers, for whom the process is easy and insightful.

Using Travel Inquiry Data for Effective Trip Planning

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Effective transportation planning is informed by good data. With transportation system users turning to dynamic tools for making inquiries and arranging trips, planners and managers have a new wealth of data that can help inform their planning and decision making.

Using Your Data to its Fullest Potential

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Grant from RideAmigos dives into our platform's new advanced reporting features for admins and network managers from a 'Bike to Work Month' point of view.

Increasing Participation in Commuting Challenges

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Learn about the latest updates to our reporting features with RideAmigo Grant Heger, then hear from the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce how they've built up participation in their incredibly successful Clear The Air Challenge.

Toss Your Swag Bag: Best Practices in TDM Marketing

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RideAmigos CTO Ben Dalton starts the show by revealing the newest version of the RideAmigos cluster tool. Then, stay tuned to hear from Aaron Gaul about the latest trends in TDM marketing.

Incentives and Events Forum

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An exciting panel discussion with representatives from three different major metro transportation organizations to explore how to make the most of RideAmigos incentive and event modules.

@HiddenCashSLO & A Multi-Faceted Approach to Rideshare Week

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SLOCOG will share their success with @HiddenCashSLO, a social media scavenger hunt that has attracted local media and thousands of new audience members. Other Rideshare Week approaches will be discussed, including: Employer Transportation Fairs International Walk to School Day Employer VS Employer non-SOV challenge on iRideshare #LetsGetVisible

Launching Pilot Programs – WayToGo & Go-Tober

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The Way to Go program is launching a pilot campaign for October, when many regions celebrate “Rideshare Month.” We will share some highlights from the planned campaign, Go-Tober, as well as how the campaign will integrate with My Way to Go.