[Ldsoss] Ward Website Email Broadcasting

[Brent Loertscher]

Our stake has been using the online missionary system for almost a year 
and it works very well.  All you need to do is the same thing that I did 
with my Bishop.  Your Stake President needs to have an lds.org account. 
All he needs to do is log into the system and give you permission to login 
with the permission levels that he feels are appropriate.  Then you can do 
the research and find out how everything works.  If you sit down with him 
in front of the computer and walk him through it, this should only take 
about five minutes.  I know that is what our Stake Clerk did with our 
Stake President.

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Brent Loertscher
brent at loertscher.org

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Andrew McNabb wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:35:10AM -0700, Mary Shaw wrote:
> > 
> >    My point is- account creation is a temporary problem.  Once every
> >    ward member has created their account, they will not need to
> >    re-create it.  I expect online registration will eventually become
> >    a routine part of baptizing/fellowshipping new members.
> 
> I disagree.  When someone forgets their password, they basically have to
> go through the same process as creating the account all over again.
> 
> While we're giving complaints about the web site stuff, does anyone know
> what they were thinking when they set up http://lds.org/mss (the
> Missionary Online Recommendation System)?  It seems that they have some
> strange policies about getting access to it.  We would love to use the
> online system in our stake, but it won't let me in (I'm the Stake
> Executive Secretary).  It says that I need to get my Priesthood leader
> to give me access.  I assume that that's the Stake President.
> 
> Here's where I think this is a terrible approach.  Our Stake President
> is an incredibly busy person.  He doesn't know how to use the system,
> and he doesn't have the time to be the person who figures out how it
> works.  I can't even get to the page because I don't have access, so I
> can't even walk him through the steps of how to give me access.  In any
> case, he simply doesn't have the time to worry about the system before
> we start using it, at which point he would expect training on exactly
> what to do.
> 
> It seems like the right way to deal with these sorts of systems is to
> have an Executive Secretary or Clerk work with the system and figure out
> how to use it.  Only after everything's figured out should the Stake
> President have to worry about it at all.
> 
> I've been trying to get this to work for about a month, but the Stake
> President's schedule has been so busy that we can't even think about
> allocating half an hour to go through the process of creating his online
> account and playing around with the system to give other people access.
> (For example, he had 50 interviews yesterday, each on average 10 to 15
> minutes long; I can't just say, "President, you've been here for 11
> hours; can we spend half an hour to try to get something working that we
> aren't even ready to use yet?").
> 
> Has anyone dealt with a similar situation, or at least used the MSS
> system?  Can you walk me through _exactly_ what the Stake President has
> to do so that I can guarantee him it will be a very, very short amount
> of time?  Is there any way for other people to get access without the
> Stake President having to be so directly involved?
> 
> Thanks in advance if anyone has any ideas.
> 
> 
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