prayer request, mp3s, and communications

[webharvest]

I would like to put out a couple questions.  I've been struggling for the past month or so on how implement three key features for my site and I was wondering if anyone had any better ideas:

1) I want to allow people to send prayer request to everyone signed up our prayer team and privately to our leadership.  What I was thinking about doing was using a newsletter component that registered users and other people could sign up for.  If they sign up for the prayer team newsletter they would get all the prayer request.  Obviously we wouldn't let people sign up for the leadership newsletter.  I would then give people the ability to send an email to the prayer team and leadership newsletter from the front end.  The problem with this solution is I can't really find a newsletter routine that allows people to send emails to the groups from the frontend.  The reason I wanted to use the newsletter component is so people can manage their subscriptions easily and change their email address without my involvement.

2) I was hoping to use the same newsletter component to allow our registered users to send emails to different groups (youth, adults, set up teams and etc) from the frontend.  My problem here is that I haven't found a good newsletter component that allows this.  Does anyone have any ideas of how to accomplish this?

3) Mp3????  My plan was to use remository to store all the mp3s and use allvideo plugin to stream them.  Remository is actually a really clean means of doing this except on glitch.  The rss routine in remository doesn't include all the tags for podcasting.  Which is the only reason I would use it in the first place.  Does anyone have a good implementation of presenting mp3s on a weekly basis with a podcasting feature?  The main requirement here is to make it easier from the frontend if possible.  Since we add a new file each week we want it to be as easy as possible.

Thanks

[igeoffi]

1) Prayer Center: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/
2) Newsletter: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/
Letterman and YaNC are pretty good.
3) DocMan is another alternative.
Podcast: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/

[webharvest]

1)  I like the prayer center module but from what I can tell it doesn't give my community builder registered users the ability to change the email address and it be linked to the prayer center.  Maybe I am mistaken though.

2) From what I can tell Letterman and YANC will not let registered users send emails to the newsletter groups from the frontend.  This doesn't let my users communicate.  Is that true.

3) The reason I went with remository is because there was no way for Docman to handle RSS Feeds.  Remository seems to give a RSS feed but it doesn't have all the podcasting tags (enclosures and etc).

Thanks

[Robert52401]

Also check out Sermon Speaker for the podcast:
http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/

I don't believe there is RSS however the component works very well on Joomla 1.0.