In addition to being a Church Management System, Arena is also a Content Management System (CMS). Not only does this provide tight integration between an external website and the membership system, it also allows for a very flexible and extensible application.
This is accomplished through a portal architecture consisting of templates, pages, modules, and roles. Every [...]
Shelby invited me to be a part of their unveiling of Arena at NACBA this week. Of course, I accepted.
It was a great time, and it was a lot of fun watching people walk up with a puzzled look on their face wondering what Arena was and then being able to give them a [...]
Here’s a little more history about Arena and how the partnership between CCV and Shelby came to be.
Over the last two-and-a-half years we (CCV) developed our own ChMS system called Solomon. Like Jon mentioned, we were getting a lot of interest from other churches, and after seeing Solomon, churches usually asked what our plans were [...]
My first blog entry is about who I am (more than the two sentence blurb under “About Me”). To start with, I’m a programmer, not a writer. I love to write functions, event handlers, recursive loops, etc. I struggle with nouns, verbs and adjectives, so be kind if you read any more of my “writings.” [...]
