McNelly SoftWorks, LLC

What Now? The Essential Guide for New Soccer Referees published

Posted November 27, 2007

McNelly SoftWorks founder John M. Wargo today announced the public release of What Now? The Essential Guide for New Soccer Referees.

'What Now? The Essential Guide for New Soccer Referees' should be provided to every entry-level Soccer Referee. It is the ultimate resource book for anyone who is interested in becoming a Soccer Referee. The newly trained Referee who doesn't know what to do next after completing the first clinic can use the practical information in this book to put his or her Referee career on track. Focusing on 'how to be' a Referee rather than 'how to' Referee, this book ignores the rules and covers everything else. Get helpful tips for locating and attending your first clinic, joining local Referee Associations, working with leagues and assignors to get games, buying the right equipment, preparing for the first game and all of the things that have to happen on Game Day and beyond. It's the checklist guide to your first season as a Referee. Written by an experienced Referee and Referee Instructor, this book covers everything about being a Referee that would otherwise have to be learned the hard way.

Information about the book can be found on the book’s web site at www.newsoccerref.com and you can buy the book from amazon.com or directly from McNelly SoftWorks. For individuals interested in a flyer for the book, click here. For Referee organizations interested in a flyer for the book, click here.

The book was published by McNelly SoftWorks using an on-demand publishing system from Amazon called Booksurge (www.booksurge.com - now called CreateSpace). It was quite an interesting process - we had the idea for the book, crafted the manuscript then for less than $100US delivered the manuscript to Booksurge and it immediately became available on Amazon.com. When someone orders a copy of the book, the folks at Booksurge print up a copy, bind it, insert it in an envelope and send it to the customer.

Updated ORK Release

Posted August 20, 2007

McNelly SoftWorks, LLC is proud to announce the release of the first major update to our flagship product - Official’s Record Keeper (ORK).

This updated version adds the following enhancements and new features:

• Reports – We have added a bunch of reports to this version. You can print detailed printouts of Game, Expense and Location details plus print any view in almost any manner
• Sticky Views – When you make a change to the layout of a view (games, locations or expenses) those changes stick until you reset the view back to its default setting; even if you leave the program. You can now make the ORK data views look the way you want them and they will stay that way
• Backup Utility – Many users were regularly backing up their ORK Program folder not realizing that they were not getting their data files as well. Since the program allows multiple users to use ORK on the same system, each user’s data files are stored in a special location created by Windows for each user. The new backup utility we added to ORK allows a user to backup their data to the ORK folder under the current user’s My Documents folder in Windows
• More default program options
• Enhanced keyboard input

The update is free for all customers.

Official's Record Keeper Released

Posted August 15, 2005

McNelly SoftWorks, LLC is proud to announce the release of our flagship product - Official’s Record Keeper (ORK).

Are you tired of manually managing your assignment calendar, tracking fees and payments and managing other aspects of being a sports official? If you are like most sports officials, you probably use a variety of systems to:

• Track your game assignments using either a paper-based or computer-based calendar
• Track payment for the contests you have officiated either in a spreadsheet or on your calendar along with your game assignments
• Track contracts by placing some symbol on your calendar indicating that a contract has been signed for a particular contest
• Track game reports by making photocopies of the reports and filing them away somewhere
• Flip through your calendar pages every year in order to determine how many contests you officiated at what level so you can re-register for the next year, request an upgrade or prove qualification for tournaments

Official’s Record Keeper (ORK) is an affordable software tool for sports officials that manages all relevant information; making it easier for you to know where you have been, where you should be going, how much you’ve been paid, how much you’re owed and what happened during each of your contests.

ORK Is not a software product for assigners; it’s designed to help sports officials maintain a complete record of all officiating related information.

The program runs on any Microsoft supported version of Microsoft Windows (Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003).