Our Blog from Simon Solutions

The boys back in R&D have been at it again! Many of you have been asking for a way to enter county and income information on the intake screen. Now you can! We’ve also made some changes so that assistance can be recorded in units of measure other than U.S. dollars.
County and Income
Many of you [...]

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Happy new year to everyone.  We want to say thanks to all our clients and colleagues who have helped us put community-building tools into the hands of faith-based and community leaders all across America and abroad.
We are building community networks in about 180 cities now.  New networks are launching each week.  Our hope for helping [...]

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We are continually upgrading CharityTracker to be a powerful, easy to use application. We love listening to our customers and are excited to announce the following features have been added:

Reports in .CSV Format — This allows you to export your records in a file that [...]

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One of our own, Greg Hammond, was interviewed for an article in the Times Daily. The article is about being prepared for giving emergency assistance during hurricane season.
Here is an exerpt:
When Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005, the country learned a valuable lesson about the importance of preparedness.
You can read the [...]

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Oikos was written up in the following article. The author examines one of the uses of Oikos: reaching out to young people in the church. The article is a little long, but it has a lot of great points. Many thanks to Dr. McMullen and Church & Worship technology magazine.
Technology Update: Closing the Gap Between
the [...]

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Howdy,
We’re going to be consolidating all of our blogs into this blog. There aren’t enough hours in the day for us to post to one blog, then go to another blog to post a blog to visit our other blog. Hehe, confusing eh?
We hope it will be easier to keep up with what’s going on [...]

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Oikos Provides Online Tools to Connect Small Groups and Enhance Community Outreach
FLORENCE, AL, May 29, 2008 - The Internet is fast becoming one of the best ways to strengthen the Body of Christ by keeping people connected in a safe online environment. Oikos (http://www.tryoikos.com) is one way for small groups to connect, share, and build [...]

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Just a few days ago we got a phone call from Lauren Hunter, our public relations consultant. She said that USA Radio wanted to interview one of us.
They contacted her and wanted to do a story on how CharityTracker was impacting communities all across the U.S.
Larry did a great job on the interview. [...]

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On Friday night, a week ago, I received a phone call from Larry, who was pretty excited. He said, “Mike, guess what just happened? We were on the evening news!” He went on to say that the local NBC affiliate in Huntsville, AL aired a special report on CharityTracker.
Needless to say, I [...]

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Head on over to the CharityTracker blog and hear about the meeting in Guntersville. AL. We were blessed by the warm reception of the Marshall County folks, and we’d like to share it with you.

And don’t forget, we’re giving an Introduction to Oikos V2 at the Oikos blog.

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Oikos Version 2 (V2) is just about finished. We’ve been working long and hard to complete it, and we’re days away from Beta testing.
Throughout the coming days, we’ll be highlighting why Oikos V2 will be worth the wait. Read the first installment of the Introduction to Oikos Version 2 here.

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Oikos V2 is now in development.
The last couple of years we have been building a community-building platform, especially designed for small group ministry. This web-based software enables people to build their own interactive social networks that are safe and secure.
But Oikos is more than a social network. It is an organic, [...]

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We are very excited to announce the launch of CharityTracker! Like we said in our new blog, we’ve worked long and hard to bring you what may be the easiest way to track charitable assistance in a community.
All of us at Simon Solutions like to collaborate. We like to work with each other and [...]

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People desire deeper personal connections with one another, and are constantly looking for ways to accomplish this within their busy lifestyles. With more and more people gravitating towards social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook in order to keep in touch and foster community, we realized that the Church could benefit from similar tools [...]

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