Sitefinity

Here is a plug for Sitefinity. Our new website (www.calvaryccm.com) was built on top of a CMS from telerik (www.telerik.com) call Sitefinity (www.sitefinity.com). SiteFinity is an awesome platform for building easy to manage websites. You can't beat the price (** Free for a small site with only one editing user **), or $999 for the full production version. We did purchase the full version for our main site, but we have been using the free version for some other churches, and small minstries.

Sitefinity is built on top of ASP.Net 2.0, and as such is highly configurable. From install to running site, including basic design can be done in less than a day.

I would highly recommend this CMS for any Church. The Sitefinity roadmap will make this product really amazing in the next 6-12 months, not that it isn't already cool, but what they are cooking up is really going to rock!

2007 Year in Review

2007 has been a very exciting year at Calvary. Here are some cool items to note (for historical sake):

• IT hired full time web developer
• IT hired Senior Helpdesk Tech
• Helpdesk Intern Started
• IT Admin (Sarah the IT Chic) was hired

Accomplishments with this staff in the last year:

• Launched new website (http://www.calvaryccm.com)
• Built new school building network complete with in classroom sound and projectors
• Deployed new fiber runs
• Deployed 30+ new computers
• Deployed New Juniper Firewall
• Exceeded 500+ viewers for streamed internet services!

These are some highlights, but wonderful ones! God has been awesome in this place. Looking forward to how God will do exceedingly abundantly more than I could ask or think in 2008!