I gave up on updating the IT wiki on a daily basis. It was too much to keep up with along with all of the emails I get.

Mike: Recent Projects & Tasks:

- Changes to the PR to improve the Sales Rep process per Erin / Joe Lynch

- Planning with Steve Basden re financial edge switchover and process to rewrite end-user self-service giving/expense reports

- Creating an online dictation system/process for the Sales Reps to call in their sales notes to improve

- Automated financial tracking and sales rep commission tracking on the PR

- Researching social networking software to buy / lease vs. building

- Incremental web updates

- Blog troubleshooting / training

- Fixing web site errors (mostly caused by search engine bots)

- Improvements to the blog system - editing username/pwd function, photos opening in new window to conserve bandwidth, redesign of world race site, fixed the blog system to allow "www." in front of user names for people who just can't figure out not to use the "www." before their name

- Marketing: reestablishing our www.shorttermmissions.com account, updating and managing the pay-per-click campaigns on Google

- Creating new blogs, moving and disabling users, grouping with metadata (wr groups / teams - see http://www.theworldrace.org/custom/worldrace/meet/2007.asp)

8/28/06

- Clarified specs for Mark A for two additional listening prayer blogs

- Set up Mark A's blogs http://mygrace.listeningprayer.com and http://mylove.listeningprayer.com

- Fixed a blog problem causing comments to not be deleted

- Fixed a dash problem in the blog system that made article links in emails produce page-cannot-be-found errors (Ex: "myfile-")

- Fixed a date format alert problem on the PR system at /cm/contact_details.asp so the new reps won't run into a data input error

- Set up IT_Projects ftp folder for Joe C

- Several World Race updates per Lisa F

- Conference call with Mark L and Duane

- Created a blog for Jonathan Tabb per Scott Borg's request

- Created a blog for Mallorie Miller per Serena's request, added her to Team B

- Dropped Danny Gutman from Team A per Serena's request.

- Updated KimK's support amount on blog system per Serena

- Added Clint B and Barbara L to the Super Admin group on the CM web application

- Consolidated support amount needed in blog system to reduce time of re-entry from 30 min per update to 10 min per update

- Requested a status update from Rajeev on scraping project, chatted with Rajeev

- Improved blog system - added field "Custom Message" to multi-blog invite

8/25/06

- Enabled photo upload for nextstepalumni.com (Special situation)

- Added message to PR to use only whole numbers in the "Size" field

- Looked into User Acct error for Sara P, fixed and called her

- Made Blancaster and Sperelman "super admins" on the PR

- Spoke to Rick Smith about a Medical Missions "Quick App" that he could use to store future prospects

- Added the "capit()" function to inc-functions and PR to capitalize people's first names when sending emails from the PR

- Set up the Discipleship Team blog

- Added a reason field to the Group Application Accept / Reject screen

- Created a /photos folder for Joe C and gave him FTP access to upload 74MB of photos to transfer to someone per Seth

- Published the World Race Quick App Review database for Seth with view, delete and add long app functions

  http://www.theworldrace.org/custom/worldrace/applications-review.asp

8/24/06

- QA'ed the Next Step Application (no errors found)

- Made improvements to the Next Step home page layout for usability

- Met with Duane for business planning, researched worldwide broadband satilite access (BGAN) system

- Fixed a couple of CM bugs in the Notes section

- Phone call with Seth and Jerry G for 2 hrs regarding the India scraping and email program

- Improved the contact manager - updated the queries to accept URL's only (rather than just contact page urls)

- Created blogs for the sales staff

     Lanny Richardson

     Bill Thomson

     James Hooper

     Rob Harrell

     Jon Bokelman

- Updated PR with sales staff logins, set permissions properly and tested

- Several tech support issues: jbokelman, sperelman, edrew, bgreen

8/23/06

- Added the ability to create accounts for returning groups to the PR

- Forwarded cesars staff photo to all staff

- Fixed a couple of bugs on the PR search feature (Contact First Name / Last Name Search)

- Fixed a bug on the WR (Last 50 Updates was showing the new Home Pages on the blogs)

- Checked to make sure all of the sales reps had active email addresses (they do)

- Phone call with Erin and Sara regarding custom trips in CM database

- Created custom trip list for choosing via Admin on User Account page

- Phone call with Clint regarding piloting the scrape marketing program

- Emails with Seth / Jerry regarding same

- Checked to see if Merchant account can be updated to new back account per Jennifer Zody (It can - will schedule change for midnight 8/31/2006)

- Voided an Adult charge in authorize.net for CM

- Email ping-pong regarding India-labor church marketing plan with Seth / Jerry / Mark A

- Asked Mark L to make a detailed plan for World Race video training in September

- Added staff picture to staff page

- Recovered 3 passwords for people

- Wrote a long email to allstaff to describe the spam situation

- Tested a Groove replacement along with Duane (Code Co-Op) - didn't work

- Updated the World Race Leader Board, improved the layout

8/22/06

- Added support links to AIM Staff and moved to home page - See: http://www.adventures.org/a/staff/staff.asp?sid=DLivingston

- Added Home Pages to all of the blog instances along with the enableHomePage function

- Added "Manage Alert Subscribers" to the blog

- Researched and tested document syncronization and offline source control software with Duane

- Spoke to Clint at length about CM Reps and showed him how to use Photoshop to update his US map