[Ldsoss] Elders Quorum Organizer

[Jesse Stay]

On Oct 21, 2006, at 11:00 PM, Bryan Murdock wrote:

> 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?

A good Ward Webmaster may help with that.  When I was Ward Webmaster  
I worked with the leaders in my Ward to encourage each of them to use  
the Ward Websites in their quorums and organizations.  They then  
encouraged members of their organizations to check the Ward Website  
for events rather than just posting them in the Ward bulletin, and  
began to use the distribution lists for communications rather than  
calling large numbers of people or sending out bulk e-mails and  
having to collect e-mail addresses.  I then took a second front and  
started to pass out flyers on how to sign up for the Ward Website,  
how to use it, and where to go for help.  I offered to sit down and  
help members with it as they needed help.  Then, members without  
internet access could either access it at the Library, or special  
attention could be given to them by the leaders to ensure they were  
notified personally.  All of this encouraged most of the active  
members to join the Ward Website, and ended up being a pretty  
successful system.

I am anxious however to see things such as e-mail address be passed  
from MLS to the Ward Websites. This would allow us to collect e-mail  
addresses from inactive members and have them included in  
notifications as well without having to manually send out to them or  
require them to sign up for the Ward Website.  Unless that feature's  
been added since I was WWM...

Jesse