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Comment on Neon and Lines – The Next Big Thing in Shirts by Travis Young

Travis Young — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:10:25 +0000

I used to be on YL staff and know a thing or two about the joy or sometimes the ordeal of getting camp t-shirts made. I now work for a design company that makes such tees. We do custom art for every order which means you will never have that awkward embarrassing moment at a work week where you realize the colors and dates may be different but that guy over there is wearing your same camp tee. Along with the security of originality you have the ability to send us an idea you’ve been spit balling to run with, or if you’d rather us work our creative mojo we can run wild for you (creatively of course). If you’re interested in creative, original, worry free design from someone who has stood in your shoes walking life with high school kids feel free to shoot me an email: Travis@holeintheroof.com and check out our website http://www.holeintheroof.com.

Comment on Club Talk and Campaigners Sync: Mark 1 by PHSYL

PHSYL — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:49:40 +0000

Barbara,

Thanks for your comment. The project progressed a bit but has not finished. See here for more: http://ylhelp.com/2009/10/16/club-talk-and-campaigners-sync-is-back-mark-6

Comment on New Ideas About Club Cards? 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.

Comment on Club Talk and Campaigners Sync: Mark 1 by Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:37:45 +0000

What a great idea! What happened? I see this was 3 years ago you posted this…any chance you are going to resurrect this project??? I hope so but please start from the beginning- first club talk because most people who would be searching out this type of info are newbies like me!

Would love to hear where you are with this and where you are with Young Life

Thanks,
Barbara

Comment on New Ideas About Club Cards? 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.

Comment on New Ideas About Club Cards? 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.

Comment on New Ideas About Club Cards? 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)

Comment on New Ideas About Club Cards? 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.

Comment on New Ideas About Club Cards? 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!

Comment on New Ideas About Club Cards? 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.