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Services that start themselves
An automated camera in the main hall films inside each scheduled window. The countdown page, the homepage slide and the guide slot publish with the event, and the replay publishes after it.
SCENARIOILLUSTRATIVE SCENARIO
A composite of the faith and community organisations MediaCore2 is built for: several venues, a weekly rhythm, one night a year that fills every seat — and a team made almost entirely of volunteers.
The product fact that carries it
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form field types, drawn signature included
An illustrative scenario: a composite of how an organisation like this runs on MediaCore2, built only from what the product does. No customer is named and no result is quoted without written permission.
02/ 06WHO THEY ARE
A network of congregations and community centres across one region, run by a small paid office and a much larger rota of volunteers. They stream weekly services and talks, publish notices, run a youth programme that registers every season, and serve members who can no longer come in person — most of whom watch on a television, not a laptop. Their site runs in English and Arabic.
What they stopped juggling
- A social video page for the livestream, and a volunteer re-uploading every recording
- Paper registration forms and a box of signed consent slips
- A group email list for notices, kept by one person
- A website only its original builder knew how to change
03/ 06WHAT THEY BUILT
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Free for all, more for members
Services are free to everyone. Talks and the members’ notices sit behind a free Member plan that activates instantly, and a Supporter plan renews through Stripe or Square for members who choose to contribute. The office comps a membership for anyone who asks, in one click.
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Registrations with consent
The youth programme’s form takes a one-off fee before it’s accepted and sends a parent their own link to sign or decline. Uploads stay private to the reviewer and the applicant.
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A role for every volunteer
A Youth Coordinator who sees Forms and nothing else. A Notices Editor with Blog & Articles. A Radio Volunteer with Stations. The activity log records what each of them changed, and when.
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The living room, by QR code
Members sign in on the TV by scanning a code with the phone they already use and tapping Approve. Nobody types a password with a remote.
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English and Arabic, properly
In Arabic the whole site mirrors right-to-left — navigation, forms, the player’s own controls — and French never appears, because they never switched it on.
04/ 06THE NIGHT IT MATTERED
- Two weeks out · 10:00
The office creates the annual gathering once. A countdown page, a homepage slide and a guide slot publish with it. It’s free to watch — the hall will be full, so the page is how most people will be there.
- Gathering night · 17:30
The homepage slider only looks a day ahead, so tonight leads the front page on its own. A notice goes to every member by inbox, email and phone, with the recipient count on screen before Send.
- Gathering night · 18:45
Members who saved the event get their fifteen-minute reminder. In front rooms across the region, televisions sign in with a QR code.
- Gathering night · 19:00
A volunteer pushes the programme from OBS with the key the event issued. The countdown page becomes the player without a refresh, the radio station carries the audio for those who listen, and simulcast takes it to Facebook and YouTube for family abroad.
- Gathering night · 20:10
From the stage: registrations for the summer youth weekend are open. Applicants fill in the form on their phones during the interval, sign it and pay the fee.
- Gathering night · 21:30
The window closes. The page retires, the homepage slide comes down, and the replay appears in the archive with its artwork and description. Nobody stays late to upload it.
- Next morning · 09:00
The youth coordinator opens a numbered queue of submissions, each with its answers, uploads and signature. The office exports the week’s analytics as a PDF in the network’s own colours — living-room TVs counted as TVs, not desktops.
05/ 06WHAT CHANGED
- The weekly stream no longer depends on who arrived early enough to run it.
- Nobody downloads or re-uploads a recording; the archive grows on its own.
- Registrations, fees and signatures arrive complete, in one queue, instead of on paper.
- Every volunteer has a login that opens only their part of the Studio, and every change carries a name.
- Members who can’t come in watch on the television they already own.
THE TALLY LIGHT IS RED
Walk through a service day on a call — the camera, the members’ plans and the registration form — and see what your volunteers would really do each week.
A 30-minute walkthrough of the live product — no slides.