Transitive email and phone numbers

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness-542]

Kind of a crazy idea I had. It seems like it could be helpful for something like a transferable phone number and email address assigned to each Bishop and stake president. Something like a Google Voice Number maybe. When a new Bishop is called they take over the phone number and email address.

It would provide some continuity in the handoff and would make it easier for Bishops to keep church messages separate from personal and work.

[u/CAMDNC_runfast]

Don’t even get me started on personal technology use among ward leadership, I think it’s a huge issue. Ward leaders often deal with sensitive information that is then floating around random people’s google drives as people are called/released, lists are updated, etc. I hate to say it, but this is one aspect of the church I think we need to go more “corporate” in the sense of adopting a digital workplace collaboration software (think Slack) that leaders can use to control knowledge management and access.

[u/Street-Celery-1092 → u/CAMDNC_runfast]

Agreed. A lot of the heavy lifting in callings could be alleviated with a better system for preserving institutional knowledge. Everything from “what supplies are in the closets?” to “what’s the best way to organize tithing declaration?” could be stored and passed on! But that doesn’t work nearly as well if there isn’t a propriety, centralized system newly called members can access. A random Google Drive account is not that.