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My New Hat

Published January 31st, 2008 in Arena. 1 Comment

Well, the hat has been on my shelf for about a year, but it is now official.

We are going to Arena!

Arena Hat

Unfortunately, our Shelby database was corrupted two weeks ago and the most recent “good” backup we could find was September (oops). Fortunately the Arena announcement softened the bad news.

I am registered on the ArenaCHMS.com forum and ready to go. There is also a  new Arena posting category here, so I need to tag previous Arena posts tonight.

Arena ChMS: A Container for Nuts

Published December 29th, 2006 in Arena, Religion and Techie. 0 Comments

We had a presentation from Arena several weeks ago and I never got around to posting about it. Since I need to clean out my queue and their official release is just a few short days away I thought I should post what I have.

Have you wondered just what Arena ChMS is? As far as I can tell, it is really a container for nuts. Well, at least that is what they sent us. They were some very large cashews, and my daughter thought they were yummy. I took a picture to commemorate the nearly empty container.
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Arena coming to Christ’s Church

Published October 12th, 2006 in Arena and Techie. 0 Comments

Well we “borrowed” our church name from Christ’s Church of the Valley (although there is no valley here so we couldn’t take that part), so we might as well use their Shelby Arena system.

I have been watching it for a while and even subscribed to the Yahoo! Shelby User Group to keep up with any details. There haven’t been any from there.

I have also been checking out the occasional posts from David Turner (his old site has info too).

The ArenaChMS site has been updated with more information as well. Although, if someone connected with the site reads this they need to look at it in Firefox, there are some issues.

All of this to say that I am getting questions together for November 15, so if anyone has any information that would help in my questions or questions they would like me to ask then post a comment.

Update: I forgot to add the link to CCV’s Arena page.

Shelby Systems Announces Arena ChMS

Published July 27th, 2006 in Arena and Techie. 2 Comments

Shelby Systems has announced that it will be working with the development team from Christ’s Church of the Valley to implement their check-in system. They will also be adding a web based component to their system.

The new system is called Arena, and it will be released generally on January 1, 2007. http://www.arenachms.com/

I have been following the development of the system through Jon Edmiston at CCV and he hinted to me a few months that they were in a deal with an established company, I’m glad it was Shelby.

Here is some information on the system starting first with the announcement last night and then following through the series of updates on the system.

We can finally announce (July 26, 2006)

  1. Check-in System Part 1: Introduction
  2. Check-in System Part 2: Requirements
  3. Check-in System Part 3: Kiosks
  4. Check-in System Part 4: Cards and Codes
  5. Check-in System Part 5: Application

Additionally, Tony Dye at Perimeter Church was shown a demonstration of the system last month and liked it: Shelby Demo.

This looks much better than the Shelby Chek-In which looks a lot like, well, Shelby (link thanks to Brett Anderson).

Also, thanks to Jason Powell for kicking Jon back into posting.


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