Church Dashboard October 11, 2006
Church Dashboard is creating one page that church administrators, pastors or other leaders can view multiple to look at their backend systems, membership reports, content management system, financial reports and any other reporting system that integrates into ChurchDashboard.com. The system will be similiar to Google Personalized Homepage where users can build the reports they would like to see.
The system will allow vendors (Content Management Companies, Church Management Systems, Financial Systems and others) provide secure feeds and eventually editing capability from one login environment. This is a great idea and if you are a Web 2.0 company, something you should look to get involved in. There are already a number of companies signed-up to participate.
MeetFish - Another Christian answer to MySpace October 6, 2006
MeetFish is set to launch. A lot of money and development hours have gone into this site, it will be good to see what they have come up with. The even have a viral marketing play with the use of ‘creative videos’ to create a buzz for the launch.
What is MEETfish?
MEETfish is a place for people to share life. Here you can post photos, share your journal and explore truth with friends and family. The ocean can be a scary place, so MEETfish is designed to be a protected harbor where members can meet and interact without fear.
Fourthbook.com web-based Church Management Software October 4, 2006
Fourthbook.com is 100% web-based Church Management Software. It was designed specifically to meet the needs of church-plants and small to mid-size churches at an affordable price. Fourthbook.com was created by Rockfish Interactive and Kenny Tomlin (CEO & President) sent us a login to try the system. [Click on either image for larger Screenshot] Tomlin explains why he created Fourthbook:
Why Create Fourthbook.com?
As the Founding Pastor of a church plant, I began looking into solutions for managing a growing contact database. Churches have unique contact management requirements and traditional contact management tools were not flexible enough to meet my requirements. Additionally, I wanted to be able to send emails to my contacts, record financial giving, and run detailed reports.
After visiting with other church planters, I found most were using a combination of Microsoft Excel, Quicken, Microsoft Outlook, and possibly a web-based email tool to try and meet their needs. These multiple software applications don’t all work together, creating multiple contact databases. Additionally, using multiple desk-top applications makes it extremely difficult to delegate some tasks out to church members – something that church plants and small to mid-sized churches often need to do.
The backend is very sleek, with Flash charts an easy to use interface. As of today, Fourthbook handles Contact Management, Financial Recording, Email Management and Reports for these.
Building Church 2.0 Web Applications? October 1, 2006
These are the top 10 things auinteractive learned from attending the Future of Web Apps Conference 2006 in San Francisco earlier this month. The summit was hosted by Carson Systems and included speakers like Kevin Rose, Mike Arrington, Mike Davidson, and more. It’s a condensed and aggregated summary of points covered by different speakers throughout the conference that I found most useful.
10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website
[also read SonSpring’s Gospelcon Internet Ministry Recap.]