Posted by Matt Harrell on September 24th, 2008 Below is the release notes for MemberHub’s September 24, 2008 release. There are also 2 additional posts detailing recurring events and member profiles.
- Recurring events can be created and edited (event reminders not available yet)
- Member profiles are visible to hub administrators, and optionally to hub members
- Custom data can be collected about members on a per-hub basis, and visibility is controlled by hub admins
- An email is sent to hub administrators when a member leaves a hub, including all profile data
- An email is sent to hub administrators on a daily basis indicating the names of persons who have joined a hub
- Maiden name has been added to member profiles
- Display name has been added to member profiles
- iCalendar feeds now include all events (before they would only include the ones of the month they were requested on)
- Improved handling of emails sent in reply to discussion posts/comments
These new release are great. Thanks for putting this together. I have a couple of thoughts/questions: is a printer-friendly button on the horizon? Also, is there a way to build one calendar and then only allow a certain group to see certain aspects of the calendar? What I have found is, that I have a church calendar, but then I need a Leaders calendar, a serving schedule calendar, a personal calendar, etc. So that when I check the email members, people aren’t getting unnecessary email reminders that do not apply to them. Just wondering. Again, thank you for making this available. I have found it to be a useful tool.
Hey Shannon. I have your suggestion to print out a hub calendar on the list. It’s not in the immediate future, but the designers are looking into it now.
As far as having separate calendars, I suggest using multiple hubs. Hubs are designed to be flexible. Creating a new hub is easy and adding members to hubs from your organization will be even easier next week! We will be introducing a new set of screens and features for organizations to better manage multiple members and multiple hubs. We will be adding membership management tools to this area of MemberHub. In your case, you can have an organization for your church. Then underneath the organization you can have a hub for whole church, a hub for the leaders, a hub for the servers and a personal hub for you.
When you’re a member of multiple hubs, you’ll see color coded events from each hub calendar on your combined calendar (http://memberhub.com/calendar).
I’ll be sure to touch base with you next week. MemberHub users can expect some exciting changes to the application next week!
Matt Harrell