Ministry Centered Technologies

Well, last week at Shelby NUGM was really fun. I met a lot of cool people and it was, all in all, a great time. If you are a Shelby user and didn’t go I strongly recommend it, it is well worth the money.

Ok, sooo….on to the meat of the post.

While at the Shelby NUGM I released the new product from Ministry Centered Technologies called Shelby Center. Shelby Center is a very cool web application (well I think it is really cool) that is the beginning of a web interface for Shelby V5. Here is a partial list of Features:

• Global Search: One search box searches: Organizations, Registrations, Profiles & People
• View Organization & Profile Information: With drill down into organizations
• Calender pulled right from Resource Calendar
• Edit Personal Information: With a really AJAXY interface you are able to easily update Personal information about individuals
• GlobaFile Concept Extracted: Those who know Shelby know about the GlobaFile. While a great idea it is a bit hard to understand, so in Shelby Center I decided to make the GlobaFile invisible, but still there.
• Public Groups Interface: Public Groups Interface that allows you to have group sign ups. Though this is still in beta, I haven’t finished extracting all of the Southwest Community Church logic from it.
• Great Price Point: FREE!!!
• Open Source!!!!

I am really excited to see what churches do with this software. So here are the specifics:

• Shelby Center Demo: Go to http://shelbycenterdemo.ministrycentered.com/ and login with the username Shelby and a blank password.
• Information on shelby center: http://www.ministrycentered.com/shelby_center here you will find info on how to support, download & install Shelby Center. There is also a link to our wiki and bug/feature tracking site
• Shelby Center Google Group: http://www.googlegroups.com/group/shelbycenter where we can talk about Shelby Center issues and future.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Jeff