Comments on: The Problem Of Two Databases – More Thoughts http://www.churchteams.com/ct/index.php/2008/08/the-problem-of-two-databases-r-u-sure/ Church and Small Group Management Tracking Software for Building Teams and Making Disciples Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:22:42 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Boyd http://www.churchteams.com/ct/index.php/2008/08/the-problem-of-two-databases-r-u-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-1909 Boyd Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:22:42 +0000 http://www.churchteams.com/ct/?p=50#comment-1909 Update - we rolled our membership features in February, 2009. We can now serve as your full church database! The new membership features are very cool and easy to use. You can even text now and send out emails for people to update their own information! Talk about a great way to keep information up-to-date. There's a lot more, so check out the webinar if you are interested. Update – we rolled our membership features in February, 2009. We can now serve as your full church database! The new membership features are very cool and easy to use. You can even text now and send out emails for people to update their own information! Talk about a great way to keep information up-to-date. There’s a lot more, so check out the webinar if you are interested.

]]> By: Boyd http://www.churchteams.com/ct/index.php/2008/08/the-problem-of-two-databases-r-u-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-819 Boyd Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:26:10 +0000 http://www.churchteams.com/ct/?p=50#comment-819 Kevin, Yeah, you are right about have 5-6 databases. In addition to the ones you mentioned there's survey tools, newsletter tools and then the wide open world of social networking tools. That's why I need to from time to time pull away and get a bigger look at what were doing and where we're going. It's also why I like having these conversations. Your desire is where we are headed. We hope to roll out an initial CMS this fall with functionality that will be sufficient for smaller church needs. From there we'll continue expanding features based on real needs of ministry. Thanks, Boyd Kevin,

Yeah, you are right about have 5-6 databases. In addition to the ones you mentioned there’s survey tools, newsletter tools and then the wide open world of social networking tools.

That’s why I need to from time to time pull away and get a bigger look at what were doing and where we’re going. It’s also why I like having these conversations.

Your desire is where we are headed. We hope to roll out an initial CMS this fall with functionality that will be sufficient for smaller church needs. From there we’ll continue expanding features based on real needs of ministry.

Thanks,
Boyd

]]> By: kevmccord http://www.churchteams.com/ct/index.php/2008/08/the-problem-of-two-databases-r-u-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-806 kevmccord Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:09:07 +0000 http://www.churchteams.com/ct/?p=50#comment-806 Boyd, I can appreciate your thinking. People are surprised when they hear me tell them to go with what works even if it means separating their data. I believe we have been over-sold by some major ChMS vendors on the promise of what they can do. What I hope will happen is that companies like yours with tools like ChurchTeams will dilligently pursue a full featured Church Management System with which they can truly integrate. The problem isn't that we have just two databases it is that we have 5 or 6 (check in, contributions, small groups, worship teams, events, etc). At some point those of us in the back office become servants of the tools instead of servants of the ministry. Blessings, Kevin Boyd,

I can appreciate your thinking. People are surprised when they hear me tell them to go with what works even if it means separating their data. I believe we have been over-sold by some major ChMS vendors on the promise of what they can do.

What I hope will happen is that companies like yours with tools like ChurchTeams will dilligently pursue a full featured Church Management System with which they can truly integrate.

The problem isn’t that we have just two databases it is that we have 5 or 6 (check in, contributions, small groups, worship teams, events, etc).

At some point those of us in the back office become servants of the tools instead of servants of the ministry.

Blessings,

Kevin

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