Comments on: Tuggle – Social Networking for Ministry Leaders

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:11:23 +0000

hi you guys said it was free but when i went to the website its not free

By: Collective Muse - Social Networking for College Leaders

Collective Muse - Social Networking for College Leaders — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:17:32 +0000

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By: Tuggle Support

Tuggle Support — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:11:44 +0000

Tuggle Myths

By: inWorship

inWorship — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:55:33 +0000

Thanks for the responses to my questions everyone.

I can see how Tuggle really focuses on key items that allow it to be a great management tool.

I’ll be checking it out and seeing if some of our guys would enjoy it!

Brent

By: cynthia

cynthia — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:19:32 +0000

Hey thanks all for the tuggle feedback.

Shea – with 1,000 student users your perspective counts tremendously.

By: Shea Sumlin

Shea Sumlin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:53:06 +0000

Hi Brent, I’m the college pastor at Denton Bible Church- one of the first ministries to pilot Tuggle. Thus far we have almost 1,000 students using our tuggle site- and I’d say just about all of them also use Facebook as well. As far as I can tell, our ministry will always be married to BOTH Tuggle & Facebook. Both have many similarities- and both offer a variety of differences.

From my own perspective, as an administrator over our ministry- what makes Tuggle unique from Facebook is some of the communication aspects and organizational database options. I can collect and filter through needed data concerning our students in ways that Facebook never could. I can also mass text message our students from Tuggle (which helps for last minute changes in our events). On top of that there is an unlimited amount of possibilities for shaping and assimilating our small groups. As Joe said above, Tuggle isn’t a replacement to Facebook, but simply a much needed supplement to it- that allows for much more effective ministry organization to take place. But thankfully, as a bonus, Tuggle does offer some unique networking options that do help our students to communicate with one another in some very intentional ways.

Anyway, as these guys have said… take a test drive. I do know, that for nearly 1,000 of our students, it has been an effective tool for them (and even more effective for my staff and I)

By: Joe Batluck

Joe Batluck — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:24:21 +0000

I am the student ministries pastor at Denton Bible and we use Tuggle for our ministry and I can’t begin to tell you how valuable this tool is. We use Tuggle for all the reasons mentioned above and have found some creative ways for it to be used for some administrative functions that it was not created for Tuggle has sown up some of the communication gaps in our ministry and as anyone in ministry knows, effective communication is one of those indispensable tools in ministry that is always sought after yet difficult to attain. Tuggle is not just a large church resource either. I have some friends that are youth pastors in smaller churches and they are finding equal value in Tuggle as well. I don’t think Tuggle has or will or was even meant to replace Facebook or trashspace but it is a ministry tool that you cannot afford to ignore regardless of whether you are a youth pastor, college pastor or senior pastor.

By: inWorship

inWorship — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:32:57 +0000

I understand what your are saying. It does sound like the management tools will be great.

I’ll be checking into it.

Thanks!

By: Daniel Elmore

Daniel Elmore — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:27:25 +0000

By safer I mean your data, your private data. Do your students put their phone numbers and addresses on Facebook? Of course not, but Tuggle has the concept of “administrators” where members can enter this information on their profiles but allow only leaders and admins to see. So when you need a phone number, you can look it up. Also, age is a huge factor in creating small groups. Tuggle can list all your members and sort by any profile field, even age. It’s a management tool, FB/MySpace is not, and they are not trying to be.

If I told our current users that we’re closing down Tuggle and that they’ll have to manage their ministry from Facebook, they’d said “How in the world am I going to do that?!”

By: inWorship

inWorship — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:49:09 +0000

Daniel, thanks for your response. When I get a free moment I will go check out the podcast and get to know your service a little better.

When I was at your site, it was hard at first glance to see a difference. I do understand your desire to resource leaders with more tools and the ability to network easier. I can see how a service like this would allow that to happen quicker because of a smaller scale.

I am not sure what you would determine to be “safer” about Tuggle than another network as they all have safeguards in place and you can live quit nicely inside of them without any issues from surrounding people.

Thanks for stopping by and answering my questions!

Brent