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Forms, Registrations, and Online Event Management
Before this century, most event organizers would use many hours of data collection, tabulation, and payment processing time to prepare for a large (or even a small) event.
If you're looking for more comprehensive solutions for donor management, online customer/parishioner relations management, etc., you may want to tak a look at CRM, Donation Reception, Online Payments.
Nowadays, there is a wide variety of options when it comes to online event planning, registration, coordination, and management. If you want to simply collect data from a certain population, either for a...
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Event Registrations and Management
Many organizations are looking to alleviate a lot of the stress and hours of work that comes with managing event registrations. Instead of dealing with hundreds or thousands of mailed-in registration forms, checks, cash, and manual credit card transactions, your organization can benefit from using an online event registration and management system.
These systems often perform the following tasks:
- Basic data collection (like other form builders)
- Payment processing (either through your own bank, a service like PayPal, or directly via credit card transactions)
- Advanced registration management and data analysis...
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Basic Data Collection - Online Forms
Do you just need to collect information from a certain group of people? You can do this quite simply using a 'form builder,' which allows you to set the information people are required to submit. Once a person submits his information, the form that is built will do one or both of the following:
- Send you an email with all of the submitted information.
- Store the submitted information in a database for easy viewing, editing, or exporting.
Here are some of the simplest (and often most inexpensive) form building tools:...
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Quote demonstrating bad software design
From a paper I read recently:
Based on the observation that users did not use a number of support functions, such as the medical notes and the consultation review interface, future trials will include a short tutorial.
The authors are talking about a virtual patient system, but this probably applies to many applications. If users didn't use certain functions, in my book there can be two reasons:
- The features are not well designed, and users don't know how to access them or,
- They don't actually need the features.
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Major Updates to Open Source Catholic!
During this Easter season, I saw fit to spend a few hours on the OSC website, which has, I admit, taken a back seat to many of my other web projects, most notably the Archdiocese of St. Louis website and some other little projects I'm dabbling in (like an experimental HTML5 site).
Here are some of the recent changes I've made:
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OSC Member Tweets are back online!
(I Installed an updated version of Drupal's Twitter module. Cron is now much faster, and old Tweets are cleared from the database,...
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OSC Member Tweets are back online!
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Wiki Stub Pages
Stub pages are placeholders for more content. Typically, a stub page is created with the intent of filling in more information as time allows; all of us are human, and we have finite resources. Please help, if you can, by creating an account on Open Source Catholic and editing the stub page, adding whatever information you see as helpful.
Don't worry about writing perfect prose; the community will help with grammatical or factual errors, and any mistake can be fixed!
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Website Design, Development, and Maintenance
A Catholic organization's website is one of its most important tools for evangelization, fundraising, and community involvement, especially moving forward through the 21st century.
This section of the Wiki will include recommendations for website development and design. For now, please refer to the following articles:
- What makes a good parish website?
- The Parish Website: An Essential Tool for Ministry
- How the Archdiocese of St. Louis Upgraded its Website
- Catholic School Web Design - A blog for those who manage Catholic School websites, marketing efforts, and social media.
Some services that...
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