References

Presbytery of Boston is a United Presbyterian Presbytery located in the Boston area.  They provide an organization for the churches of the Boston area to work together for their common goals as part of the hierarchy of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA.  They had an existing web site, but depended on their webmaster for any and all changes to the web site.  They wanted to be able to make changes to the web site without needing to involve the webmaster.  They also wanted to be able to provide new capabilities to reduce their costs and increase their communications.  Now, their bi-monthly meeting notices and packet of documents are available on the web site, and are made available through a site-generated email to registered users.  They can control access to any document on the web site, limiting access to Presbytery members, or to a specified committee of Presbytery.  Our use of a Content Management System made this possible.

United Methodist Foundation of Santa Rosa, CA, provides scholarships and grants to members of First United Methodist Church and manages long-term funding donated to the Foundation for its purposes.  They wanted a site where they could minimize their ongoing expense by building a CMS based web site and by maintaining the site content themselves.  Their primary purposes of the web site are to inform the community of their purpose, and to provide a way for people to request funding for scholarships and other needs, and to contribute to the Foundation.

First United Methodist Church of Santa Rosa, CA, has a web site where the graphic design was provided by a designer.  We did all of the implementation and ongoing maintenance.  The site includes activated content so that the people in the church who are responsible for content can manage that content without needing webmaster assistance.  We also include photo albums that are maintained by the photographers.  We used this for a mission trip so that the participants can communicate back home while the trip was in progress.  We also use active content for news and events, so that as events occur, they are automatically removed from the front and news pages.  This makes it easier for the team to keep the content accurate and relevant.  We support a forum so that registered users can share thoughts and information.  We implemented a "store" so that site users can make donations and can pay for church activities through the web site.

Sonoma County United Methodist Youth have a web site for the youth program for Untied Methodist youth at Sonoma County churches.  The site was built so that the Youth Director can maintain all content, including her blog, announcements, photos, and videos.  Youth can contribute photos and videos.

Chef-K is a web site that we have recently begun maintaining and enhancing.  Chef-K is Culinary Health Education for Kids, and they provide education for kids who want to learn how to eat healthy foods, and they also train the trainers who will educate the kids.  The web site is critical to their business as it is the source of many business leads as well as the platform they use to manage their contacts and constituents.  They do most of the site maintenance themselves, with our help in enhancing the capabilities of the site, such as the online store we are currently adding.