Between careers, kids, spouses, church, soccer games, and oh yeah, that thing they call leisure, who doesn’t feel like their life is over-committed? As adults we get so caught up in getting ahead, we forget that slowing down to enjoy the view is what gives life its richness. So how do you deal with all the obligations to remain sane and when we’re feeling over-committed, how do we spread the… read more →
“I can teach you skills, but I can’t teach you desire.” It’s the tried and true call to action, which every coach pulls out of their bag of tricks. It’s often a last attempt to inspire their team, to show them that hustle and inspiration make a victory. Motivation is a tricky animal to conquer; it can be spawned internally or externally, but the best type of motivation springs from… read more →
In a society where staying connected is of the upmost importance, where do you draw the line of privacy and safety when it comes to posting pictures online? Digital sharing has seeped through the generations from teens to moms to teachers, and as a result is affecting the children of today. When should preschools post adorable pictures of the kids at school, and when can it turn into a threat… read more →
I just wanted to share with everyone a little about our summer intern. Her name is Caroline. We think she’s great and here’s why. Caroline wants to learn more about social media marketing (so do we) She’s already strategizing a really cool social media marketing idea for August She’s spending her summer days with us; not hanging at the pool Caroline is a volleyball super star for Meredith College One… read more →
As parents of young children my wife and I are in the midst of learning the details of early childhood education. Both of our children attend a preschool at a local church and we’ve also decided to stick with the Wake County Public School system for Elementary school (my wife and I both grew up in this system after all). One thing is becoming clear, parents have a huge… read more →
We’ve made a long overdue enhancement to our Custom Fields feature. Administrators can create custom data fields on profile records in their organization and now…they can have their members fill out that information themselves when they update their profile. Anytime a person joins your MemberHub portal for the fist time, they are prompted to complete their profile. Up to this point, it’s been the basic correspondence information like address and… read more →
You need your members, volunteers and constituents to serve, right? The easier you make it for them to find information about an event and signup the more likely it will be to get them engaged and giving back. It might be a large event where you need several volunteers or it may just be a snack party where you need parents to signup to bring something. People want to serve…but… read more →
Amazon is down but MemberHub is up! Well, the east-coast server of Amazon EC2 is still down. But we have succesfully moved MemberHub.com over to their west coast server. We recommend that when you access MemberHub again to logout and then back in to clear out your browser’s cache. Thank you to all the users we spoke that were so full of grace and understanding. Have a blessed Easter weekend!… read more →
As I write this post, MemberHub.com is experiencing the largest outage since we launched our service. Yet we are not alone. Sites such Foursquare, Quora, Reddit, Hootsuite, Flavors.me and others have experienced downtime and felt the the effects of Amazon’s current outage. In fact, well over 100 sites have been affected. To help our users understand what’s going on I’ve put some notes together.
