Comments on: What Non-correlated Technology Is Helping Your Ward? (More Importantly, How Can It Help Mine?)

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By: Raizinbrant

Raizinbrant — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:44:30 +0000

Our bishop uses his Blackberry to text the rest of the bishopric for various reasons. Also, the laurels president mass-texts all the girls in the group for mutual announcements and what-not. This only works because all 7 of them have cell-phones and text. Obviously this wouldn’t work with most groups, but it works great for them.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:47:50 +0000

Our Relief Society uses Evite for their activity. Very effective. The ward website is great if you can get the members onboard. Emails can be sent out to individual members, specific auxiliaries or the whole ward and our clerks have done a good job of snapping pictures and posting them into each families profile. The calendar is also nice because it has all of the stake events as well. Lastly, it’s nice to have access to the most current ward and stake directory. Again, the members have to be on board, and the ward and stake has to keep the site/calendar updated.

By: Seth R.

Seth R. — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:26:46 +0000

Michael,

Stick to less challenging and divisive issues.

I’ll take a “Are Mormons Christians?” debate over a “Mac or PC?” debate any day. Far less rancor, profanity, and insults that way.

Actually, I think that “Mac or PC?” may just be the great the pivotal American theological divide of our time.

For the record, I use Mac.

By: pick a name, any name...

pick a name, any name... — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:02:50 +0000

i wish our ward would just use email, too. our old ward had at least an rs list and it was SO handy. “sister x just had emergency surgery and we need babysitting for tomorrow and meals for three days.” “sister y is moving and has a free car, two couches, and three lovebirds to pawn off.” we could email with, “hey, does anyone in the ward cut hair or change oil?” and we’d have an answer soon enough. sounds kind of annoying, i guess, but it never was. it was soooo nice.

in our current ward, more of the older folks have email listed on the ward website than do the younger ones.

i want to do the google earth thing just for the fun of it, ha.

By: a random John

a random John — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:42:52 +0000

I’ve created a Ward Photo Directory. I take the CSV export from MLS and put it in a spreadsheet. Then I added a few columns for name of photo file, names of the people in the photo, email, etc. Then I wrote a program that parses the CSV file, and creates an OO.o Writer document with photos in it. The directory has been a bit hit. Getting the photos was the hard part. Nobody would email me. I had to take many of them myself.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:00:49 +0000

Our EQ presidency use Google Docs for collaborating on each week’s schedule. I make the basic schedule and we all add items as they come up each week.

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:28:51 +0000

Micheal,

Like I said, you could be 100% right but I don’t care enough. My computing needs are simple and I get more annoyed at every Mac user feeling the need to sell the product to the world.

Rusty,

Hey, I just made an off-the-topic interjection that so many of us often make in these posts. It wasn’t my intention to throw it off topic. Sorry.

For on the topic, you’d think singles wards would be most on top of such technology but it is not so. In fact I think it’s worse. Singles HAVE TO be called the night before (or day of) whatever is going on for a reminder or else very little will get done.

By: gst

gst — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:02:47 +0000

Our ward has a pirate website off of the church grid maintained by one of the bishopric members. It has mainly ward emergency prep. information, and photos of activities.

By: Don Clifton

Don Clifton — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:39:54 +0000

Some of us older members would love to have you younger guys take over and use email, etc all you want. But there are a lot of older members who really are intimidated by the technology. Rather than being embarrassed and admitting it, they’d rather just use some other excuse for not having to.