disciplemen.com NEW PHASE RELEASED!

From the last disciplemen.com Insiders Update E-mail:

September 4, 2007

The new disciplemen.com is primed and ready for its official launch. All we need is you and the NCMM members to list their resources for leader’s in the men’s discipleship movement! Help meet the needs of these leaders by participating in the 3-Step launch process:

1) REGISTER if you haven’t done so yet
2) JOIN the Leadership Directory and let the other users of the site know you are committed to discipling men.
3) CONTRIBUTE your favorite resource to the Best Practices & Resources section. Have you used a great book in a small group or mentoring relationship? Found a great Bible Study curriculum or web site? Created a useful tool for the men in your church? See if it’s listed in the BP&R, and if not, post the resource yourself – you can even attach documents, power point slides or pictures to your posting to equip other leaders to use it more effectively. We are hoping to have 750 resources listed the in the Best Practices and Resources center as soon as possible.Join one of our upcoming disciplemen.com launch conference calls & we’ll walk through the launch process outlined above.

The schedule for these calls will be:
Friday, September 7th – 11 a.m. EST
Thursday, September 13th – 1 p.m. EST
Wednesday, September 19th – 2 p.m. EST
Tuesday, September 25th – 4 p.m. EST

The conference calls will last approximately 1 hour with half of this being a demonstration time and half being for Q & A.If you would like the telephone number and conference call code to be included in one of these sessions, please email us at resources@disciplemen.com and we’ll be happy to provide further details.Here are a few of the things users of disciplemen.com can look forward to with this release:

• User submitted resources to the Best Practices & Resources section
• New entries into the Leadership Directory
• More information about members of the Leadership Directory
• New search functions throughout the site
• An entirely new 5-Star Ratings system for all resources
• A revised comments/reviews ability, tied to Ratings
• A new design for the How-To’s section
• Ratings now added to the How-To’s section
• Ability to earn more user points
• Forums to communicate with the community and the developers.

We are excited to see how God uses disciplemen.com to help connect discipleship leaders all over the world.

Thanks, and God Bless!

The disciplemen.com team
 

A ’soft’ Launch at NCMM

disciplemen.com was launched at the NCMM meeting last month in Kansas City. During the conference, the beta release of the site, available at new.discplemen.com, was demo’d in the opening plenary session. All four sections of the site - What’s happening?, How To’s, Leadership Directory and Best Practices & Resources - were up and running. The 48 hours leading up to the event were hectic, as you can imagine, but the guys at Modomo Technologies, our developer, pulled a rabbit out of their hats and had the site ready to go, with only a few of the usual bugs - I mean ‘features’ — you might expect in a beta release.

Over 100 men’s ministry leaders registered on the site as users, and most of those joined the Leadership Directory as well. Plus, more than 60 new resources were added to the Best Practices & Resources Center.

It was a great week with leaders from around the country.

Next Release Coming at NCMM

On April 12-14, a few hundred leaders in the men’s discipleship movement will gather at the National Coalition of Men’s Ministries annual conference, entitled Momentum. We’re excited to be launching the next phase of disciplemen.com at this conference!

In the disciplemen.com Internet Cafe, attendees will be able to access the brand new Leadership Directory, where they can list themselves along with their interests and expertise for others to contact them. In addition, the Best Practices and Resource Center will be rolled out, allowing leaders to post materials that they have used - books, curriculum, events, speakers, etc. - and share them with other leaders from around the world.

It’s not too late to register for this conference. In addition to the disciplemen.com Phase Two debut, there will be representatives from 50+ ministries dedicated to helping leaders disciple men in the local church.

We Need a New Poll

Got any ideas for the next poll? Post a comment and give us your input.

The R-rated movie poll garned over 400 responses, with about an even split between guys saying to never recommend one - 200 votes - versus guys who said OK with an exception for sex, violence and/or if it had a great message. Go to www.disiplemen.com and click on News & Notes to see the actual numbers.

Aliens Have Finally Returned Me to Earth

Really, it’s the only halfway decent reason I could think of for the length of time since I last posted. Of course, aliens didn’t actually snatch me (or invite me, for that matter). Life just got, well, like life gets, I guess. But we’re back, and stuff is happenin’!

First up, while I was off-planet, 325 people have already signed on as users on disciplemen.com. In the words of one of the apostles, “Wow!” (It’s in the original greek.)

Second, if you’ve been to disciplemen.com lately, you’ve seen the “How to’s.” These are cool mini-trainings delivered via e-mail right to your desktop. Already, 212 of you have signed up for a course, and the feedback has been awesome.

But wait, there’s more! We have contracted with an awesome company called Modomo Technologies, run by our new best friend, Lyndon Modomo, and his merry band of techno-gurus. They are working feverishly (seriously, they’re burnin’ up) on the next two phases of disciplemen.com, a Leadership Directory and Best Practices & Resource Center. First phases of those will be up in April, if all goes according to plan.

So that’s the techno-update for now. I’ll be posting more frequently now. Really, I will. But as Dale Carnegie said and Pat Morley likes to quote. “The older I get, the less I listen to what people say and the more I just watch what they do.”

Watch the blog. Let’s see what happens.

Welcome In!

Welcome to the official blog of the discipmen.com. We’ll use this blog to help keep the community informed of the development process as we go.
We’ll also post past polls (say that three times fast), collect quotes on discipleship, and anythig else that comes to mind as we go.

 Remember, this is a community. It gets stronger with your involvement, so post your comments!