Author name: Larry Phelps

Larry Phelps is president of Hemingway Solutions, a Laserfiche reseller, and an AI and Laserfiche consultant who helps organizations go paperless and automate business processes to work more efficiently.

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Why Community Action Agencies Are Personal to Me

People sometimes ask me why I’m so passionate about working with Community Action Agencies (CAPs) and nonprofits. Some of them don’t quite get it. They see limited budgets, funding challenges, and complicated processes, so they wonder why I would focus so much of my career on organizations with fewer resources than private businesses. My answer

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More Software Won’t Fix Weatherization. A Better Process Will.

Ask a weatherization manager where the week went, and the answer is often screens, not attics and furnaces. Most Community Action Agencies already have plenty of software. What they don’t have is a process that runs itself. In this article, I explain why another database just adds data entry around the same manual workflow. I

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Community Action Agencies – Scanning To PDF Is Not Really Going Paperless

Scanning to PDF and Storing Them On Your Network Doesn’t Mean You Went Paperless If your agency scanned everything to PDF, I have some news you may not love: you’re not paperless. I know that’s hard to hear after all the work your team put in. The good news is that the fix is simpler

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Garrett Community Action

Garrett Community Action decided to make it easier to apply for their Energy Assistance services and the result was that they were able to gather more information on their client which help them determine if there were other services that the client could benefit from. Here is the whole article:   http://hemingwaysolutions.net/garrett-county-community-action-committee-improve-services-by-integrating-laserfiche-with-empowor/

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