Goodbye MyChurchEvents; Hello Google Calendar

Church IT, design, on the job, technology, website tracking

We’ve used MyChurchEvents for a few years now as our (Bethel’s) online calendar solution. They offer a decent service…minimal downtime, easy enough to train volunteers on how to use. However, they have a few strikes against them:

• No ability to track usage (I’ve asked multiple times)
• Extremely limited access to calendar data in usable format (e.g., no APIs)
• Layout is cluttered
• It’s very much a web 1.0 app
• It’s slow (relative to Google)
• They still charge $60/year

By my count, that’s six strkes against them…that’s enough for two outs. Here’s the out I found…

I’ve been looking for an alternate online calendar solution for over a year now and just recently began testing Google Calendar. We’re planning to move it into production this Fall, but you can take a sneak peak at what it may look like now if you’re interested.

Dave Stone @ June 13, 2008