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Our website is designed to be a platform for communication for our congregation members and registered users.
Having 99% of our website designed and developed from scratch in house, our online community offers a variety of membership services like no other Christian online community.
We hope this online community will function as your personal information manager, a forum for discussion, as well as an electronic bulletin board for announcements, sermons, and general information about our EM, especially for our out-of-town members.
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Would you like to sponsor our monthly cyberspace rent?
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| Road Map for YaleChurchEM.ORG |
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This is a high-level description of the development status, strategy, and feature content for upcoming versions of our Yale English Ministry website. These are not in any order.
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 NIV Online : |
Our own online NIV Bible, which will be manually entered by Yale EMembers entirely. |
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Newsletter : |
Online newsletter containing interviews, letters, and articles written by Yale EMembers. |
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iMail : |
Send emails to groups of people, such as the Praise Team, Yale EMembers, or All Registered members.
Email will include more features, such as cc, bcc, and save as draft, and attachment capability in the future. |
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iCard : |
Send electronic cards for birthday, sympathy, thank you, congrats, miss you, and for many other occassions, similar to Hallmark's eCard. |
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iChat : |
Chatting room for online members. |
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Yale EMagination! :
Play it again in this Online Edition. |
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more PIM : |
The Personal Information Manager will be upgraded with such functions as: task/to-do list, sticky notes, notepad, personal photo album,
Journal (similar to Xanga), etc. Just look at Microsoft Outlook or Palm Pilot to get more ideas. Our webiste currently supports two most frequently used PIM - Calendar and Contact Manager. |
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iNvite : |
Invitation/announcement service similar to eVite. |
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Online Games : |
Play online games and try to keep your name at the hall of fame highscore list. |
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iBid : |
Online auctioning similar to eBay for donation and fundraising. |
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| YaleChurchEM.ORG History - We never stop working for you |
 Dec 13, 2003 : |
Initial design, screenshot, and ideas presented to EM pastor at Scobee diner. |
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Jan 15, 2004 : |
Online Poll, Photo Gallery, and Calendar became available. |
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Feb 1, 2004 : |
YaleChurchEM.ORG domain name registered. |
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Mar 27, 2004 : |
EM Directory (powered by iConact©) became available. |
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Apr 8, 2004 : |
First post in Coffee&Bagel board to kick off beta testing. |
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Apr 18, 2004 : |
Worship Bulletin(Jubo), Announcement, and News boards became available. |
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May 1, 2004 : |
Sermon and Praise boards became available. |
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May 6, 2004 : |
Coffee&Bagel board became stable and is ready for enhancements. |
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May 30, 2004 : |
Prayer Box became available. |
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Jun 28, 2004 : |
Introduced the Identity Icon. |
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Jul 10, 2004 : |
Added Prayer Box, Read Me!, and Yale Photo sections to the FrontPage. |
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Jul 15, 2004 : |
Contact JDSN and Site Administrator pages completed. |
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Jul 21, 2004 : |
My Personals page became available: includes new All Members page and redesigned InBox, SentBox, and Who's Online? pages. |
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Aug 6, 2004 : |
Frequenetly Asked Questions (FAQ) page became available. |
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Aug 14, 2004 : |
YaleChurchEM.ORG goes LIVE! - version 1.0
Bulletin Boards became available with just one active board, but many more to come.
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Aug 17, 2004 : |
Added YaleChurchEM.org, YaleEM statistics, and Ad sections to the FrontPage. |
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Aug 26, 2004 : |
Added Recommendation, Email this to a Friend, and Printable Version features in Coffee&Bagel. |
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Aug 27, 2004 : |
Filtering option is added to the Coffee&Bagel, Prayer, and YaleChurchEM.org bulletin boards. |
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Aug 28, 2004 : |
Added a feature where members can leave comments on the pictures in the Photo Gallery. |
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Sep 10, 2004 : |
Added My Favorites feature for bookmarking bulletin boards. |
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Sep 11, 2004 : |
Added more than 100 new EMotion icons: total of over 250 EMotion icons! |
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Sep 17, 2004 : |
Photo Submission added to Photo Gallery |
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Sep 28, 2004 : |
Humor board added to Bulletin Boards |
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Oct 3, 2004 : |
Added Lost&Found, Games, Tech, and Classified boards to Bulletin Boards |
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Nov 20, 2004 : |
More than words... board added to Bulletin Boards |
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Nov 23, 2004 : |
Added Guest Board. |
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Jan 17, 2005 : |
Added a signup sheet for our Website Sponsorship |
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Feb 22, 2005 : |
Added two new features to Private Memo: i) Memo Forward, ii) Composing a memo to multiple members. |
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Feb 27, 2005 : |
Bible Board added to Bulletin Boards |
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Mar 8, 2005 : |
Added Fasting Chain signup sheet for Passion Week |
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Mar 20, 2005 : |
Opportunities board added to Bulletin Boards |
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Aug 9, 2005 : |
Support for maintaining multiple signatures in My Preference |
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Aug 11, 2005 : |
Added Search functionality in Coffee&Bagel |
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Aug 30, 2005 : |
Online Survey became available. |
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Feb 1, 2006 : |
Added alternate address: www.YaleChurchEM.COM |
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May 7, 2007 : |
YaleChurchEM.ORG version 2.0 released! |
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Jul 11, 2007 : |
Added Getting to Know You page. |
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