Thursday, September 3, 2009

The Pulse is Online!

I'm excited to announce that we have released the movement tracker for the Canadian staff! We're calling it "the pulse", alluding that this tool will help gauge the ministry's status, and will become a critical piece of infrastructure.

Already we have well over 50 groups created, across 14 campuses! To each of you supporting me in some way, know that you were a part of making this happen. It's really exciting to see this come together.


I'm thankful for the additional of Josh and Deb, staff based out of the Maritimes, who are joining our ops team. Josh has already provided personalized support, which has really enhanced our user experience. Deb has provided graphics and an artistic eye for the colours and branding of the pulse (and will do so for other web sites).

As mentioned in the last post, we trimmed down the movement tracker substantially from the international version (being developed jointly with the United States, Canada and Australia). We removed all features we weren't sure were up to par, were unclear on how to use in our ministry, or that we simply didn't want. As a result, we have a highly supported and documented piece of software that does much less -- namely, compare timetable, update personal information, and manage groups -- but it does it well. In the coming months we plan to add more features.

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