Sunday... 1 Week into the "unpacking" process...

• I estimate I've put in around 60 hours this week to begin to get a handle on things.
• Hit my limit with Windows 7 and its wireless network wizard -- tried to use the church office WiFi and somehow it saved some incorrect settings somewhere hidden.  So yes, even I experience tech problems that are at least 50% user error initiated.
• Talked with 50% of our seminarians, she is only technically with us until May but would like to keep a relationship with the congregation and involvement with activities a few times a month but has to serve back in her home church.  We set a time to get together and talk about what I'm proposing.
• I need to talk with our other seminarian and see how he might be able to contribute and/or how we could help with the new Sunday 5PM alternative worship.  
• One idea I had for it was "Work-Ship" which is at least one time a month doing some concerted outward/community facing volunteer effort after a brief service, do the work on-site (like assemble bags of groceries from the donations & distribute) and then to come back together again. Something like a food drive or community dinner & kids movie for the community in the churches zip code.
• Another idea I really would love to explore is a kid inclusive and friendly service that is supportive & inclusive of all kids including autism and learning disabilities, ADHD, etc..
• Sent the Worship Survey results with "literals" i.e. grouped and simplified comments on to Sr. Warden and Rector with some recommendations on three areas that may need more focus to understand the issues and communicate better.
• Spoke with Leslie D. about her interest in contributing to help off load updates/maintenance to the churches web site from Ed.  Explained were we are at in an ongoing discussion on how to split the duties and simplify the systems -- it is not a hand it over type thing and Ed has gone out of his way to not drop any balls.
• Current 1 person design, write/edit code, maintain server, create collateral marketing, copy enter, copy edit and reply and help organize things -- are dead.  We need to split all of Ed's responsibilities to the right group of people who are cross trained and simplify the systems to do all the most pressing things that he does.
• Exploring new CMS systems and coming to agreement on those in the next calendar week though as of right now WordPress is my favorite.  Recommended she check out setting up a free blog with them to see the system in action and to pick up a book from the library on WordPress.
• Separately I am still exploring navigation / hierarchy of the new site and need to graph out a bunch of good looking easy to use church sites to find some/all commonalities of what makes them good.  
• Once those two (CMS & Nav) are locked down -- then we will need lots of help moving text into a dummy site which can then be edited and rearranged further before being styled and then imported into the public server after it has been configured.  During this step is also the perfect time to train someone on how to enter, edit and style the text within the CMS as the site won't be public so any mistakes can be caught and catastrophe's reversed without the public seeing anything.