Hello Everyone,
My name is Mike Boyes and I am a psychologist. I have worked with a number of community programs in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as a program development consultant and evaluator for the past 12 years. I am currently working with the programs I have been doing evaluation work for, helping them to consider their options following the announcement that CORI is winding up.
It occurs to me that as many of you are engaged in the same task I am following up on the suggestion made by Rob Grant of Salt Spring Community Services and trying to set up a mechanism for sharing information about databases and systems you have tried, are using, or are considering. To provide a means for people to tell others what they like and do not like about what they are considering. To that end I have created this blog site (www.lifeaftercori.blogspot.com) and am offering to moderate a discussion there about options for program and agency management systems and databases.
I will post comments and reviews based on my own efforts to gather information about possible program information management options and invite you all to use the comment feature of the blog site to do the same OR send me a more detailed review of a system you are using or are considering and I will post it on the blog as well. We all need to make a move one way or the other to be ready by the end of March so I am hoping this will provide an opportunity for easy sharing of information and asking of questions and generating solutions.
I will try to be a fair and as even handed as possible but I wil also pass along any opinions I am offered regarding impressions of and experiences with community program information management systems.
And if this sort of thing is already being done then ignore this and send me the link to it please!
Sincerely
Mike Boyes, Ph.D.
Mike-Boyes@shaw.ca
403-560-9171 (cell)
403-206-7016 (fax)
Calgary, Alberta
PS Happy Holidays!!
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Please add comments, suggestions, reactions and ideas. Tell us what you are using and what you are considering. Or e-mail Mike (mike-boyes@shaw.ca) with a more detailed review of a database or information management system and he will post it on the blog as a main entry for others to add their comments to.
ReplyDeleteWe are a small organization that is looking at Social solutions. Any comments?
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great idea. So many people will be doing research maybe this will help with identifying the more suitable options. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWe are an Aboriginal organization, requiring practical interface, keep it simple....
ReplyDeleteHi Mike. I'm an evaluator and consultant in private practice here in BC and used to work for CORI. Many of the agencies I used to work are looking for ideas. Social Solutions was aggressive in getting their name out there, but at $10,000 a year minimum it isn't affordable for all. There are a couple of BC based solutions (Sharevision for Community Living agencies, Nucleus Labs for Child Development Centres and TP Systems). Folks will have to contact them for pricing. I'm hopeful that CORI will extend beyond March 31st so agencies will have a bit more breathing room to get switched.
ReplyDeleteYes Social Solutions is expensive but I think we need to start looking at capabilities of "GOOD SOLID" databases and start building the expenses into our budgets. I am not promoting Social Solutions although I ilke what I have seen so far but we need to change our way of thinking when it comes to technology overall.
ReplyDeleteCheers
The problem for us is the networking and security of information among counsellors' computers. Deciding on the data collection and analysis needed will not be the difficult part.
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