With the last day of school right around the corner, churches are starting to plan for Vacation Bible School (VBS). IconCMO can help you manage the attendees and their grade levels so you can focus your planning on what’s important – preparing the curriculum for the children. Groups can be created for any Households or… ⪼ Continue Reading…
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Group Communication: Text and Email
With IconCMO, we have simplified the process of reaching out to your members using group communication. You can send a group email to the parents of preschoolers reminding them to bring egg cartons for a Sunday School project, or remind your Youth Group of an upcoming retreat with a text, all with just a few… ⪼ Continue Reading…
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…