About Techshare

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:

VisitMaine.com

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: Miles Partnership
  • 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:

OSSupported Browsers (all latest versions)
Windows 8Chrome, Firefox
Windows 10Edge, 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.