Comments on: Essential Apps for Your Online Ministry Team

By: Tony Steward

Tony Steward — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:42:40 +0000

Well, honestly it is about workflows not tools. If their current workflow or habits don't match the tools then that is a losing battle. Talking about the advantages of new work habits first, and then suggest tools to facilitate, especially if you have data/proof versus personal preference, then that can go a long way.

By: Adam_S

Adam_S — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:28:37 +0000

Love Dropbox. Keep trying to make task2gather work for me, but I keep ending back at gmail tasks (as lame as it is) and a todo label in gmail.

By: Steve Kryger

Steve Kryger — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:21:05 +0000

As for what my church uses: Wufoo - for forms and surveys ("Use Wufoo to encourage church members to share" Expression Engine - for website cms Twitter - @cbtbkirribilli Stafftool - current member database

By: Steve Kryger

Steve Kryger — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:17:39 +0000

This question might fit into the second bucket (data), but I'm keen to hear what databases churches are using to manage member info. I've been writing a series of posts on my search for a church database for my own church ("Search for the ideal church database"). There don't seem to be a lot of good options out there - would love to be convinced otherwise!

By: @shauggy

@shauggy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:57:43 +0000

Dropbox for sharing files/database-esque things
(if ProPresenter would let you specify the location of your library, Dropbox would become even more useful)
Task2Gather for task/project management

By: human3rror

human3rror — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:00:05 +0000

yup.

By: dewde

dewde — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:49:43 +0000

This is a great title to a blog post you didn't actually write yet.

peace|dewde

By: newlutheran

newlutheran — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:33:21 +0000

Dude. Planning Center Online. Totally. It's not free, but it's cheap enough.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:29:14 +0000

What would somebody suggest from a worship standpoint? Right now, worship team members get an email from the worship pastor with the dates we're playing, charts, links to songs on Youtube, etc.

Some kind of online place where schedules can be posted, charts uploaded, embedded youtube videos, etc. Cheap (meaning FREE) is of course the best route. I'm not sure a project management solution would work, but some kind of collaborative site that people could have access to instead of relying on emails.

Thanks

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:25:53 +0000

The cell phone/twitter thing is a GREAT idea. I have been trying in vain to get our church leadership and other members to embrace Twitter. I am getting them there, but it is hard. Too many people would rather answer pointless quizzes on Facebook.