[Ldsoss] Elders Quorum Organizer

[James Nickerson]

On Saturday 21 October 2006 22:00, Bryan Murdock grooved on as follows:
> On 10/21/06, A. Rick Anderson <a_rick at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Bryan Murdock wrote:
> > > it can print out an email address
> > > list for easy spamming of the quorum when there is a move or DI
> > > assignment coming up.  It's intended to be used only by the the
> > > presidency.
> >
> > FYI: The current ward web calendar will do this already, and then the
> > move or assignment on the calendar.  When you create a calendar event,
> > just check the box to send to the Elder's Quorum.
>
> Yes, but only, like, five ward members have ever bothered to type
> their record number in and get on the website.  Of those five, maybe
> two have entered an email address.  However, when we passed around a
> clipboard in elders quorum meeting one day, we got 30 email addresses.
>  Hmm, could we put those into the ward website ourselves somehow?
>

Our membership clerk recently printed out personalized "invitations" for every 
member of the ward with their membership # and confirmation date, along with 
easy-to-follow instructions for registering.  I've been trying to plug it to 
the quorum for a while, because it's ridiculous how people are always asking 
for other peoples' phone #s when the entire stake's contact information is 
available online to any would-be stalker with an account. 

The great achilles heel of using the church's system for emailing is that only 
the individual can edit his or her own email address.  This strikes me as 
very odd, since everything else (real address, phone #, pictures) can be 
entered by a clerk, but for some reason the email address remains 
untouchable.  Otherwise the church system would be great, since you can send 
out targetted emailings to different subsets of members, their information 
follows them from ward to ward, etc.  Instead, our ward is grandfathered into 
into a yahoo email group that we can't realistically abandon because of said 
inability to enter peoples' email addresses into the church system for them.  
It requires separate maintenance outside of the church system, and I'm always 
getting information about Enrichment Night because it's only set up to send 
to everyone.  Certainly, we could configure something to email selectively, 
but that would be even MORE maintenance, is probably something the church 
would discourage anyway, and is absurd when a suitable system is already 
(almost) in place.

James


> Bryan
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