Last week I wrote a post where I mentioned Church Community Builder and gave it a bad write-up, citing poor responses to my emails. I would like to publicly apologise to Church Community Builder.
The problems I was experiencing were not due to Church Community Builder failing to reply, but my email server failing to forward [...]
Church Commuity Builder: an apology
by Steven Kryger on 28. Jul, 2009 in for Churches, for Pastors
Search for the ideal church database (part 4)
by Steven Kryger on 22. Jul, 2009 in for Churches, for Pastors
I’ve now written out the requirements (and some optional extras) for the database for my church. I’d encourage you to do the same for your church. As I’ve been pondering requirements, I’ve also been contacting different database providers to arrange for demos/trials, and some of them have been contacting me with details of their databases.
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My [...]
Search for the ideal church database (part 3)
by Steven Kryger on 21. Jul, 2009 in for Churches, for Pastors
I’ve been doing some thinking about my church’s requirements for a database. There are some things that we need in a database. There are other things that we would like in a database, but can live without.
Different churches have different needs, but I think that a lot of these requirements would be common to many [...]
Search for the ideal church database (part 2)
by Steven Kryger on 15. Jul, 2009 in for Churches, for Pastors
The search continues (for some context, read Part 1 and The List: 32 Church Database Solutions).
Where am I up to in the search?
I’ve signed up for some trials of church databases and it’s been an interesting (read: frustrating) but enlightening experience. Here’s what I’ve encountered:
1. I’m trying to get details on the cost of one [...]
Mac or PC for Christian ministry? Part 1
by Steven Kryger on 06. Jul, 2009 in for Churches, for Pastors
The lesson is that software that is limited to a particular operating system (either Windows or Mac) will have growing limitations in a world where the market share for operating systems other than PC is increasing. This is why I was (and still am) advocating for web-based databases and other software-as-a-service solutions.
The list: 32 church database solutions
by Steven Kryger on 01. Jul, 2009 in for Churches, for Pastors
As discussed in “Search for the ideal church database“, below is a list of church database solutions that I’ve discovered in my research. To be honest, I can’t see the value of databases that aren’t web-based, but you’re welcome to try to persuade me otherwise.
Have you used any of these databases? What has been your [...]
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