I think I might have posted this somewhere else, but I'll repeat it here. We're using Taxonomy Access, but that's because we're a pretty old church, with lots of established hierarchy, committees that have been in operation for 100+ years, etc. In an organization like ours, the big thing we're dealing with is fear of losing control in moving from static web pages to a CMS. Therefore, Taxonomy Access works well, because it lets everyone feel "in control" of their individual area (as defined by Taxonomy).
Organic Groups, on the other hand, would be perfect for lots of churches that are more "grassroots". In this type of organization, the roles about who does what aren't yet clearly defined. OG is a great way to actually discover what those roles are.
We have used TAC on our site at www.abovebarchurch.org.uk from the start, mainly for the reasons given by ndru, i.e. control. However I would like to be able to use organic groups to create small private areas for homegroups etc to use, but since they are not compatible (even under Drupal 5 it seems) I am considering if it is worth doing a seperate installation of drupal and having a subdomain refer to it - homegroups.abovebarchurch.org.uk or something. Anyone tried this?
Hi,
We have had a community site up for a while and are continuing to develop it. A little while ago we added the organic groups feature but haven't done much with it. We are planning to let the small group leaders manage their own groups and use that as a place for them to share all the web resources with each other. One of the main reasons i did not upgrade to 5 was because a lot of the modules we are using would not work. It is a little tricky getting enough people to participate to make it take off but it is worth a try. You can see what we have set up at http://www.communityw.com
Our main site is at http://www.westwinds.org
feel free to contact me for more info.
-davey
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Depends on your type of church
I think I might have posted this somewhere else, but I'll repeat it here. We're using Taxonomy Access, but that's because we're a pretty old church, with lots of established hierarchy, committees that have been in operation for 100+ years, etc. In an organization like ours, the big thing we're dealing with is fear of losing control in moving from static web pages to a CMS. Therefore, Taxonomy Access works well, because it lets everyone feel "in control" of their individual area (as defined by Taxonomy).
Organic Groups, on the other hand, would be perfect for lots of churches that are more "grassroots". In this type of organization, the roles about who does what aren't yet clearly defined. OG is a great way to actually discover what those roles are.
We would like to use both
We have used TAC on our site at www.abovebarchurch.org.uk from the start, mainly for the reasons given by ndru, i.e. control. However I would like to be able to use organic groups to create small private areas for homegroups etc to use, but since they are not compatible (even under Drupal 5 it seems) I am considering if it is worth doing a seperate installation of drupal and having a subdomain refer to it - homegroups.abovebarchurch.org.uk or something. Anyone tried this?
Chris
church community site
Hi,
We have had a community site up for a while and are continuing to develop it. A little while ago we added the organic groups feature but haven't done much with it. We are planning to let the small group leaders manage their own groups and use that as a place for them to share all the web resources with each other. One of the main reasons i did not upgrade to 5 was because a lot of the modules we are using would not work. It is a little tricky getting enough people to participate to make it take off but it is worth a try. You can see what we have set up at http://www.communityw.com
Our main site is at http://www.westwinds.org
feel free to contact me for more info.
-davey