Comments on: Put Your Church Library (Easily) Online http://sundayresources.net/neil/2009/11/05/put-your-church-library-easily-online/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:37:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Neil http://sundayresources.net/neil/2009/11/05/put-your-church-library-easily-online/comment-page-1/#comment-3543 Neil Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:10:09 +0000 http://sundayresources.net/neil/?p=169#comment-3543 Hi Bill. Library Thing looks like a very interesting service. www.librarything.com Many churches have a lot of old books so I wonder if "Library Thing" lists them? I like the social networking aspects too, but, I'm sure it's ad-driven, and it certainly allows non-members to contribute content to your site, ...which may not sit well with some. Also wonder if it "makes recommendations" based on what books members are looking at. Probably does, and that may present some theological problems to some. Have to look into that. NOTE: Wordpress does allow some social networking through its "comments" feature...just like the one you and I are using. <>< Neil Hi Bill. Library Thing looks like a very interesting service. http://www.librarything.com Many churches have a lot of old books so I wonder if “Library Thing” lists them? I like the social networking aspects too, but, I’m sure it’s ad-driven, and it certainly allows non-members to contribute content to your site, …which may not sit well with some. Also wonder if it “makes recommendations” based on what books members are looking at. Probably does, and that may present some theological problems to some. Have to look into that. NOTE: WordPress does allow some social networking through its “comments” feature…just like the one you and I are using. <>< Neil

]]> By: Bill http://sundayresources.net/neil/2009/11/05/put-your-church-library-easily-online/comment-page-1/#comment-3526 Bill Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:19:44 +0000 http://sundayresources.net/neil/?p=169#comment-3526 Just wondering if you have any opinion of LibraryThing? I like the social media aspect of it compared to WordPress. Just wondering if you have any opinion of LibraryThing? I like the social media aspect of it compared to WordPress.

]]> By: Kent http://sundayresources.net/neil/2009/11/05/put-your-church-library-easily-online/comment-page-1/#comment-2016 Kent Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:45:57 +0000 http://sundayresources.net/neil/?p=169#comment-2016 Hi Roger, I am not sure if this will help, but you can import all your books into Wordpress. I am assuming you can export to a CSV file from your current database. They with some work you can import this CSV into Wordpress. I found 2 articles that might help you with this task (I have not tried either, so cannot give any guarantees) : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/ http://www.zackpreble.com/2008/03/28/importing-posts-from-csv-file-into-wordpress/ Hi Roger, I am not sure if this will help, but you can import all your books into WordPress. I am assuming you can export to a CSV file from your current database. They with some work you can import this CSV into WordPress.

I found 2 articles that might help you with this task (I have not tried either, so cannot give any guarantees) :

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/

http://www.zackpreble.com/2008/03/28/importing-posts-from-csv-file-into-wordpress/

]]> By: Roger Brown, M.D. http://sundayresources.net/neil/2009/11/05/put-your-church-library-easily-online/comment-page-1/#comment-1960 Roger Brown, M.D. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:03:18 +0000 http://sundayresources.net/neil/?p=169#comment-1960 Thank you for sharing an exciting solution. I am a missionary involved in providing counseling support for missionaries working across parts of Africa. The community of missionaries we serve work in over 20 Africa countries and from over 160 Christian organizations. Your idea may help us increase the access to our loaning library. With over 2500 books we will need to find a way to export our existing database which I assume would be doable. When I return from home assignment in the US I will discuss the idea with our team and tech support. Thanks! Thank you for sharing an exciting solution. I am a missionary involved in providing counseling support for missionaries working across parts of Africa. The community of missionaries we serve work in over 20 Africa countries and from over 160 Christian organizations. Your idea may help us increase the access to our loaning library. With over 2500 books we will need to find a way to export our existing database which I assume would be doable. When I return from home assignment in the US I will discuss the idea with our team and tech support. Thanks!

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