Comments on: New Ideas About Club Cards?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:15:28 +0000

Eric, I tried to check out “High Rise” on the iphone app store, but didn’t find what you were talking about. Do you have anymore info about this? Thank you.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:05:00 +0000

We’re starting a new punchcard system. It acts not only as a way of getting to know the kids, but also as a sign in. In short, each kid has a personalized notecard that has their name, grade and cell listed at the top. Below, is a grid of dates of club. For each club they attend, they punch the notecard (in the same way you punch a coffee punchcard). The 7th club they attend, they get a treat. At the end of the night, a leader inputs the information in an excel spreadsheet.

By: PHSYL

PHSYL — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:48:36 +0000

Jeremy sent me this email…

Great post, we are using ministrytracker because it is only $25 a month and allows kids to sign in themselves with the info we want, it also allows us to track event attendance, and assign leaders for kids, and track contact work.

It is easy to use and leaders can use the mobile versions on their phones. Cuts way down on data entry although we have one person for those who slip thru the cracks.

Looks good Jeremy! though the text messaging is not included in the $25 as far as I can tell. I’ll look more into this.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:10:21 +0000

One thing we have added to our cards is Cell Phone Provider. This allows us to enter it into Contacts Manager so we can mass text the kids. Even though Contacts Manager is “clunky” the mass texting feature is great and we use it all the time. I also have wanted to use the Google Forms idea but haven’t had the computers yet to do it. I think it seems like a great idea.

By: Loren

Loren — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:01:17 +0000

Card with way less questions! (But I may be a special case- I still use a paper daily planner)

By: Drew Hill

Drew Hill — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:47:38 +0000

We created a ‘google form’ that automatically inputs kids info to a spreadsheet. We had a few different leaders set up their laptops as kids came in before club. Didn’t work great for the first club because it was too many kids at once, but for following clubs it was helpful.

By: PHSYL

PHSYL — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:40:19 +0000

Debbie wrote me an email with this helpful note:

One of the things we’ve added in the last year is the question: “Do either of your parents play golf?” We keep the info in a spreadsheet so when it’s time for our golf tournament, we already have a list of parents who play golf to recruit for our tournament.

And Ryan… I have an idea that might be super simple but I’ll need to look into it. Maybe by ASC I’ll have it nailed!

By: ryan clegg

ryan clegg — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:48:57 +0000

If you figure what to do with this, I’ll call you “Mr. Genius” every time I see you. Our contacts management at the area level is so confusing. “Contacts Manager” is so clunky, isn’t user friendly and isn’t accessbile to our leaders easily. There for we are left to come up with another communication/managent tool. that’s on top of EMMA for adult communication. So wether it’s google docs, high rise (which I don’t have any experience with) or Hello from Evernote (would be even better if there was a way to send all info to the same master account. Maybe each club gets there own username and password and they share it.) Anyway, I’d love to know what you come up with.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:51:54 +0000

We have started to experiment with High Rise at one of our clubs, which is both a iPhone app and website. It’s great because it’s a really simple amount of info that is accessible to everyone on the team in 2 clicks of the iPhone. So far the feedback from leaders has been positive and they are actually using it.