How important do you think it is for the United States to have plenty of computer programmers? Pretty important, right? Just think about how much technology you’re surrounded by every single minute of your life. Our use of technology and software is obviously only going to grow. This is why we believe it’s crucial to teach our children to code. One way we can all easily do that is to… read more →
Last night, while I was settling into some evening work, I received a text message from one of our first customers (yep, that’s how we roll). He wondered if I had a few minutes to “chat MemberHub”. I said, sure! What resulted was an extremely productive and encouraging 1 1/2 hour discussion. Here are some things I learned from that call that I want to share with you:
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 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 →
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.
We are in the process of making updates to our website. The fist thing we did was update the homepage. While we do serve large organizations with thousands of members, the majority of our customers are the small to medium size churches, nonprofits and schools. We know that a common challenge across all these organizations is duplicate member data. You’ve got spreadsheets and databases in several systems. With the enhancements… read more →
One of the most common questions with regards to implementing social media objectives at churches, nonprofits and associations is “Whose responsibility is it?”. Should the IT people do it? After all, they know how all this techy stuff works. What about marketing/communication? They are in control of our “messaging” and “branding”. What about the leaders in the organization? They should do it because they reflect the vision and heartbeat of… read more →
Much of the online church community is familiar with the upcoming free conference called The Nines, but are you familiar with The Tens? Okay, I made that up. But, there is something important going on this year on 10.10.10. It’s called the National Faith in Action Sunday and it’s all about just that…putting your faith in action. In case you’re not familiar, Faith in Action (FIA) is a four-week campaign with… read more →
From July 8-11, over 3,000 staff, volunteers and vendors converged on Salt Lake City, UT for the 4-day General Assembly of the YMCAs. It’s an event that is held every four years and the whole city was infused with the YMCA community. Literally everywhere you went, were signs of endorsement for the event. It was expected to generate $3 million for Salt Lake County’s economy. By the looks of things… read more →
