NEW for 2009

Diocesan Sessions

Development Connection: How Dioceses Can Streamline Updating Raiser’s Edge
If your diocese uses The Raiser’s Edge™ from Blackbaud®, see how the PDS Development Connection plug-in can simplify and automate the synchronization of family information from PDS Church Office. Content will include functionality from the Church Office, DioOffice Server and Development Connection programs. This class will cover:
  • Understanding the required pieces and how they relate to each other
  • Configuring Church Office for synchronization
  • Communicating address changes and deletions – parish secretary perspective
  • Synchronizing family information with the diocese over the Internet – diocesan perspective
DioOffice 5.5: Diocesan Solution Expands Organization and Staff Possibilities
DioOffice is part of the Development and Communication solution available to dioceses. It tracks families, members, and contributions across the churches in the diocese. See what is new this year in DioOffice 5.5. Content will include functionality from the Church Office, DioOffice, and DioOffice Server programs. This class will cover:
  • Understanding the required pieces and how they relate to each other
  • Expanded screens for churches, organizations, diocesan departments, and other business
  • Diocesan Directory
  • Expanded screens for staff, clergy, catechists, and teachers
  • Examining challenges related to manual reporting to the diocese
  • Comparing church data with diocesan data using the Compare Mailing List feature
  • Communicating address changes and deletions
  • Synchronizing family information with the diocese over the Internet
  • Uploading information for the Kenedy directory to the diocese
DioView: How Dioceses Can Streamline the Collection of Financials from PDS Ledger and QuickBooks
See how your church can simplify the uploading of financial totals from
PDS Ledger and QuickBooks to the diocese. Content will include
functionality from the Ledger, DioView Server and DioView programs.
This class will cover:
  • Examining challenges related to manual reporting to the diocese
  • Understanding the required pieces and how they relate to each other
  • Configuring Ledger to upload
  • Configuring QuickBooks to upload
  • Uploading financial totals – parish bookkeeper perspective
  • Downloading and analyzing totals – diocesan perspective
Helping One Another:
Open Mic Roundtable for Diocesan Issues
This is an opportunity for you to get answers from other participants in
a minimally-moderated forum. Pose questions to the group and share
your experiences with others. Don’t be shy, many folks probably have
the same questions.