Techshare 3.0 is the new online tool to create, edit and share Maine tourism-related stories, events, deals and business listings on the following Maine tourism websites:
Techshare is built on the Elebase Content Management System (CMS) and provided free-of-charge to the Maine tourism industry by the Maine Office of Tourism. To list your event, business or organization on the site, sign up below.
Roles & Permissions
There are four user levels in Techshare:
- Manager: BVK
- Editor:
- MOT – can manage all sites and users
- Regional editors – can manage their site and business users
- Contributor: business and event users – can only manage their entries
- Base: someone who has applied, but is not yet approved in the system
| Business User (Contributor) | Regional Manager (Editor) | MOT Admin (Editor) | BVK Admin (Manager) | |
| Create/edit business content (listings, deals, events)* | X | X | X | X |
| Create/edit editorial content* | X | X | X | |
| Edit regionally tagged business content (including publishing authority) | X | X | X | |
| Edit all content on own regional site only | X | |||
| Edit all content on all sites (including publishing authority) | X | X | ||
| Approve/publish newly submitted business content | X | X | X | |
| Filter/sort content dashboard to see specific content | X | X | X | |
| Receive notification of newly submitted business content** | X | X | ||
| Receive/process new business user account applications | X | X | ||
| Create new admin users | X | X | ||
| * New listings and articles can be assigned to multiple content categories. EX: A business that offers hiking and wildlife watching services can be designated as both. This way the business won’t have to create two separate business listings. ** Regional user should only be notified when there’s newly submitted business content tagged for their region. | ||||
Minimum System Requirements
Techshare 3.0 uses modern technologies and should run be on a modern OS and browser. Systems on which it has been tested include:
| OS | Supported Browsers (all latest versions) |
| Windows 8 | Chrome, Firefox |
| Windows 10 | Edge, Chrome, Firefox |
| Mac 10.10 + | Chrome, Firefox, Safari |
| iOS | Safari |
| Android | Chrome |
Techshare 3.0 may work on some older systems and browsers, but is specifically not supported for Internet Explorer.