Comments on: Is Facebook the Best Way To Connect Your Members?

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By: Should Organizations Use Facebook Groups? | MemberHub

Should Organizations Use Facebook Groups? | MemberHub — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:39:32 +0000

[...] where the communication channels are. For an organization that has privacy as an utmost concern, using Facebook to centralize communication with and among members seems like a daunting [...]

By: Who Wants $390 for Their Member Organization? | MemberHub

Who Wants $390 for Their Member Organization? | MemberHub — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:03:25 +0000

[...] We are a group of dedicated, honest and hard-working individuals that want to serve. We want to serve organizations that exist to serve their members by making software that’s easy to use and helps improve real communication. Facebook is NOT the best way to communicate with your members. [...]

By: Churches Want Private Group Communication Tools | MemberHub

Churches Want Private Group Communication Tools | MemberHub — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:30:27 +0000

[...] is intended for. It’s intended to “network”. Facebook is definitely not the best way to connect your members and groups. When you’re in a church and are involved in various ministries and groups you don’t need to [...]

By: Matt Harrell

Matt Harrell — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:09:07 +0000

Excellent question Greg. We are considering different ways in which MemberHub can be incoporated into a church’s existing webiste. Especially in light of the findings that Drew Goodmanson and folks have made on church websites and their effectiveness as a tool for outreach. While the webiste isn’t an effetive outreach tool it is an increasingly releveant tool that members of a church are turning too.

So it would make sense that organizations would want to embed their memberHub calendars, and links to registrations (in the future) and donations on their existing websites. Some sort of widget if you will is what we’ve kicked around. Also, the ability to browse availabe hubs.

Of course, with some minor process changes, this can be encouraged now. For example, we have a church in FL that uses MemberHub and they link to http://memberhub.com/login from their website. THEN, they encourage their members to login into memberhub and click the Remember Me checkbox. The next time the member access MemberHub through the church website, the user is redirected to their MemberHub dashboard, instead of /login/ because they’re already “logged in”. Something to think about.

We are recognizing the need to better integrate with churches existing website.

Thanks Greg. Keep the questions/feedback coming!!!

By: Greg Davis

Greg Davis — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:35:55 +0000

Thanks for the link to Rebecca’s post. A good read and even an effective illustration of a point she made – Facebook changes are happening so fast it is hard to keep up with and write about them. Since the time of her post Facebook Fan Pages have morphed into a format which is very similar to an individual’s profile page.

Regarding the last point see made:
“Embrace the features of Facebook for what they are and what they can do, but make your website the hub of your online community. It’s there, on your own turf, where you can encourage a higher level of engagement, subscriptions to your blog or email newsletter, active membership in your organization, conversions to offline actions, and the true two-way communication that leads to more lasting commitment to your cause.”

Do you see MemberHub ever having an API that church’s could tap into which would allow them to fully integrate their hubs directly into their websites under their own domains or will we always be forced to go to the MemberHub.com site to use our hubs? It is a different business model, but one that is proving very successful with other web applications such as Twitter, YouVersion, etc.