As you emerge from your office cave into the sunlight of the warm spring days, don’t forget your office could use a good dose of spring cleaning. From your file cabinet to your PC, cleaning and organizing is easy to do. Spending just a few hours cleaning now will prolong the life of your PC… ⪼ Continue Reading…
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Anatomy of A Good Blog Post – Get More Followers!
OK. I’m just going to say it: Blogging and church outreach are a match made in heaven. Thus the anatomy of a good blog post makes a lot of sense for churches to understand. You have an interested audience. You have wealth of valuable information to share. And you have an unparalleled platform – your… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Skeptics vs. Cynics: Web-Based Church Software Security
I subscribe to a newsletter called Great Work Provocations. Every weekday morning, I get an email with a short yet inspirational, thought-provoking message. This morning’s email brought me this little gem: Invite the skeptics in. They’re desperate to be proven wrong. But avoid the cynics. They’ve already made their minds up. –Great Work Provocations Reflecting… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Help! Why are checks/labels/reports printing funny in CMO?
We’ve been getting that question a lot this week! Here is the answer The new version of Firefox (version 19) includes its own PDF viewer. So your checks are now showing in that instead of Adobe Reader like they normally would. If you’re using another browser such as Safari, Chrome, or Internet Explorer you can… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Church Software and Data Conversions Part II
In the first part of the series, we discussed exporting and importing data and the worth of the data. If you missed it, read the first part here. In this final series we will discuss the remaining three topics for church data conversions. This can pose problems when the new database doesn’t have the fields… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Church Software and Data Conversions Part I
There are many reasons for churches to change the software they use to track membership and financial records. Software companies can go out of business, or their views of technology trends may not match the church’s views. Also, changes in church leadership can have a powerful effect on what software is used. These matters are… ⪼ Continue Reading…