Visit to Arena

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 12:57 AM by admin

I'm off to TN to meet with the Arena developer team and should have lots of excellent information to share later this week.  Christ Church of the Valley along with Phil and I (Central) have been helping the Arena team with their upcoming community site.  Among other things, the community site is where all Arena developers will get to collaborate, discuss and share ideas for new functionality and other development related things.

Attachment: OnTime2007.gif (20203 bytes)On another topic, today I received news from Axosoft about the next version of their "OnTime" product.  Take a look at this video of the product in action.  I love these next generation, AJAX enabled web apps.  Applications like this set the standard for the way all future web apps need to look and behave.  They must be fully visual and feature rich.


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  1. Bob Brown Says:
    November 11, 2006 at 3:21 PM We will have an Arena demonstration at our church on Wednesday November 15. I would be interested in reading your thoughts on the system so we know some good questions to ask. http://blog.osministry.com/?p=289
  2. nick Says:
    November 12, 2006 at 9:20 PM There are so many features in Arena it is impossible see the full depth of everything in one, two... days. For starters study the things David described in his blog at http://davidturner.typepad.com/davidturner/arena/index.html Now, if small groups are important to your church and your church is large, then keeping track of them is very important. Have them show you the ways you can slice and dice this data (area maps, member reports, etc.) If keeping your members involved is important along with making sure no one falls through the cracks, then take a good look at the "volunteer tracking" part of the system. Get a good understanding of how this part works. We have a old branch (pre-Arena, pre-Solomon) of this part of the system and it is a vital tool to ministry leaders. Then there are all the communication related features (promotion, campaigns, newsletters, bulletins, public event calendar), sport teams management, attendance/check-in capabilities, Web Prayer, classifieds, polling features, website CMS, IT hardware/software reporting, ... it seems like the list never ends. I'm going to blog the details about the modules I implement over the next few months. -Nick

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