Documentation · Signals and insight
Signals
Watches you set on what people write and which gifts arrive, so a quiet pattern across twenty results becomes a line on Monday's Overview.
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What a watch is
A watch is a question you want asked of every new result, over a window of time, with a line it has to cross before it counts as a signal.
- Words or tags. Results whose free-text answers mention any of these words, or that your team tagged with these tags. grief, loss, widow over 60 days, threshold 5.
- A gift. Results with this gift in the lead band. Teaching over 90 days, threshold 8.
- A step. When the count crosses the line, what to do, in your words: start a group, ask the pastor to preach on it, call these people.
Signals that crossed their line show on the Overview and in the digest, with the count and the step.
Calendar and events
A watch can be tied to a calendar: a season or a date range, so hospitality counts only around Easter. If you give GiftWell an events feed (an iCal, RSS or WordPress feed from your church's site), signals can be read alongside what your church was doing that month, and the Overview shows the events beside the week's results.
What a signal is not
It never names a person on the Overview or in the digest; the count links to the Signals page, where pastors and up can see who. Words are matched against what people wrote on the assessment only, never against the private something I have walked through answer.
Who sees what
Pastors, admins and the owner create watches and see the people behind a count. Leaders and viewers see the signal lines on the Overview, with counts only.
Try it on your own church
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