2008 National Worship Leader Conference
Planning Center Online is proud to be a sponsor of the 2008 National Worship Leader Conference and we hope to see you there!
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
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New Server
Hey Everyone, We have been feeling like the PCO site has been a little sluggish the last week so we have just added another server and things seem to be screeming again. Have Fun Planning! Jeff
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
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Planning Center Nominated for 2007 Praise Award
What a year it has been, especially the last couple of months. I would like to bring you up to date and let you know what has been happening around here. Worship Leader Praise Award Nomination First, I am very excited to tell you that Planning Center Online has been nominated for a Praise Award as one of the top five Worship Technological Innovations of 2007 by Worship Leader Magazine! This is the 7th year for the Praise Awards and the top vote getter in each category will be announced in
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
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Product Update: 30+ New Features!
Hello Everyone, Well, it’s been a busy couple of months! We had a great time at the Saddleback Worship Conference in California and the National Worship Leader Conference in Austin, TX, and it was awesome to get to meet so many of you face to face. We are always blessed to hear how Planning Center is helping to better organize your ministries, and continue to be motivated to improve the service. One of our biggest updates ever is here and we wanted to give you all the details so you can kn
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
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Updated Tutorials
Well after wrestling with Flash all day I have managed to post our new Tutorials section! You will see that we have updated the look and feel and almost every tutorial. We have also added a couple of new ones at the same time. A special thanks to Aaron Stewart from Central Christian Church for recording these videos for everyone to use. You can go watch them at http://www.planningcenteronline.com/home/tutorials. In Him, Jeff Berg Owner/Developer Ministry Centered Technologies
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
1 min read
Saddleback Worship Conference is a wrap!
Wow! What an exciting week! It was awesome to meet so many of our customers. Rick Muchow (right) from Saddleback (if you didn't know) was able to come by our booth and wish us happy birthday after he had a quick training session with Aaron (middle) where he planned out five of his upcoming worship services in minutes. Ok...back to work on the next version of Planning Center, we have some pretty cool things planned! Thanks! Jeff Berg (left) Owner/Developer Ministry Centered Technologies
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
1 min read
Happy Birthday Planning Center!!!
Planning Center Online is now 1 year old!!! Woohoo! To celebrate, tomorrow (Thursday), we will be having cupcakes at our booth at the Saddleback Worship Conference. Offer valid while supplies last, void where prohibited. Come by and celebrate with us! Jeff
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
1 min read
Wow...a blog storm...
Well I was very happy to see Planning Center Online mentioned in several blogs this morning. Check them out: Church 2.0 - the blog I'm not sure how to succinctly summarize this tool's features except to say that it does everything you'd hope that it would (sequence songs, and other elements of the service) as well as store mp3's, lyrics and other relevant attachments (paid version), schedule and email personnel according to their roles, track and report song usage, import song data from
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
2 min read
Safari 3 BETA & IE 6
Hello Everyone, Apple released a BETA version of Safari 3 this week and we have found that it has some bugs that show up when you are try to upload files to Planning Center Online. So if you have decided to upgrade to this BETA release of Safari we recommend you either downgrade back to Safari 2 or use FireFox to work with Planning Center Online until the final version of Safari 3 comes out in October. Also, with the update we published last week we introduced some bugs in the Matrix for t
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
1 min read
Product Update: A Busy Month
Hello Everyone, Wow, last month was a long month!! Shannon and I had our 4th wedding anniversary, my daughter had her 1st birthday and this was my first year doing taxes for myself and my business, what a learning experience. And through all of that I have been able to get a lot of great features into this new version of Planning Center!!! And with no further ado here they are: Plans * Ministry Positions allow you to add a position to your plan without knowing who is going to fill it,
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
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Today's Down Time
Hello, This morning we had a small amount of down time because the company that provides our DNS server went down. I believe that this is because of the Daylight savings changes but this is still unacceptable. We are looking into either hosting our own DNS servers or moving to another provider for this service so that this does not happen again. Please let me know if I can answer any of your questions or do anything else to help. Thanks! Jeff Berg Owner/Developer Ministry Centered Technolo
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
1 min read
Product Update: The beginning of a new thing
It has been about 8 months since we have launched Planning Center Online and I am amazed to see God working so powerfully through my life and through this company. We launched at the Purpose Driven Worship Conference and since then we have had over 1000 churches sign up! And the reaction that I am getting from everyone has been nothing but positive. Thank you so much, I really appreciate every single one of you guys and I hope that my work is enabling you to be able to do more effective ministry
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
3 min read
Planning Center Online In The News
Woohooo!! I think this is the first "official" article about us. Understandably, they got some facts wrong (our cheapest plan is $9/month) and some are already outdated (we have over 900 churches), but all in all Ken did a great job! "Worship Planning 2.0 is aimed at worship leaders. However, it can be used by any ministry leader in a church to coordinate planning and electronically notify volunteers of assignments, practices and worship schedules. Thanks to modern technology, voluntee
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
1 min read
Product Update: Tons of Updates
Hello everyone, Looking at my blog I see that I have not been doing a good job of keeping you updated with all of the new features that we have been adding, mostly because I have been so busy with those new features that I have not had time to write about any of them. I am also going to try really hard to give more frequent updates in the future. Last week we deployed one of the largest updates we have made to Planning Center Online so I thought now would be a good time to get caught up wi
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
4 min read
Product Update: Announcing Planning Center LIVE
Last week was an exciting week for us as we got to travel to Phoenix, AZ and participate in the Worship Resource & Education Conference. While we were there we were able to meet some great people! We also were able to announce a new product coming out. So with that, we've got a lot to cover, so here is the update: Announcing Planning Center LIVE Planning Center LIVE is a new product that will add on to Planning Center and will allow you to go through your plans in REAL TIME. This allows yo
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
4 min read
Product Update: Video Tutorials, Song Keys & Matrix change
Hello everyone, Ok, ok, I know. I am late, but I've got a good excuse. Truth be told we have some things that we wanted to include in this e-mail, but just hadn't finished yet. Also, it is hard to get this e-mail done in the middle of the week. So in learning from our experience we will now be sending out the Planning Center update every other Friday instead of every other Tuesday. Downloadable tutorials Some of you knew that this was coming, so here it is. We have recorded tutorials hi
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
2 min read
[Planning Center Update] Purpose Drive Worship, people & more
Hello everyone, Welcome to the first Planning Center Update. Since try to do a good size update to Planning Center every two weeks we decided that it would be good to try to communicate all of the changes and new features that have happened. So every other Tuesday you will receive a new issue of the Planning Center Update. Right now the owner of each Planning Center account will get the update, but in the future we want to allow you to subscribe and unsubscribe other people in your organizati
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
4 min read
Featureless features
I love featureless features...these are the features that you can't really list on your website but these are the ones that differentiate between great products and good products. I just deployed a release of Planning Center that was full of featureless features. I will list the types of featureless features below: * Bug Fixes: These are very critical, you can't list this on your website but your clients will know by the quality of your site. And in a web application you should be able to ke
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
2 min read
Planning Center Hotkeys, Files, & more.
Hey Everyone, I just posted an update with some cool features. First off, I have redone all of the code behind the dialogs, now they are more responsive and there are hotkeys. The hotkeys are only available when you are editing a plan, if you can think of another place to put them please let me know. Here are the hotkeys as of now: Control + Alt + H = Add A Header Control + Alt + S = Add A Song Control + Alt + I = Add An Item Control + Alt + N = Add A Note Control + Alt + P = Add A Person
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
2 min read