Tony Dye: Can Facebook be a ChMS?

May 07, 2010

Can Facebook be a ChMS?

That's not a facetious question! I’ve visited with a few smaller churches of late (<200 TWA) and they don’t use any typical church management systems. Two have said, with all seriousness, that Facebook is all they need (except for contribution processing). Maybe that age old discussion of ChMS to Facebook integration needs to take a different route!

May 7, 2010 9:50:43 PM | BestPractice, ChMS, Church IT, Consulting

2 Comments

Yep, thats all I need, except for everything else I need...
And a lot I don't want...

Posted by: David Carroll | May 08, 2010 at 04:20 PM

Always an interesting conversation...whether or not an organization can rely solely on Facebook as a communication tool. We've had multiple posts on this topic over on the MemberHub blob http://blog.memberhub.com/tag/facebook/ (scroll down for the more relevant posts) While some churches could make FB work, others simply cannot rely on it because not everyone's on FB.

Perhaps the more interesting conversation that this brings up is What IS a ChMS? I hope to be sharing more thoughts on this soon.

Thanks for everything you're doing Tony to help further cause of helping churches find the "right" software!

Posted by: Mattharrell | May 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM

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