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  1. Talk to the CoR, move to replace the SM unless he chooses to deliver the program as intended. The lack of discipline causes inherent risk, and -- as the boys are realizing -- erodes at the fun youth should be having. It's possible that the adults don't want to shape up, and the CoR is enabling. Take a load off you shoulders, turn in the CC patch and direct your attention to a troop whose members are trying to be scout-like. In this case, it sounds like that's the girls troop. I had to stop advising my crew because the majority of boys in it were not maintaining personal discipli
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  2. The decision for us is that with SOAR, it wasn't just a calendar (we had subscribed to the SOAR calendar through Google Calendar, so people could see the events on their mobile devices, etc.), it's that with SOAR, the calendar was also for sign-ups, and you could track who was signed up, and whether they had paid, and if they were bringing guests, how many guests were they bringing, etc. The SOAR calendar also allowed us to allow others to sign-up for events, something Scoutbook doesn't allow for on their calendars. And, it was all easy-peasy to use. Like someone else said, you didn'
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  3. That's how our pack is set up, but the troop managed to snag the troop<unit number>.org domain years and years ago and does not want to lose that. I figured that it would be an easy matter to have that address point to anywhere else we wanted it to, but missed the fact that there were email addresses associated with it. The troop's mailing lists were things like announce@troop123.org or committee@troop123.org. I'm not sure, but think there may also be individual email addresses like scoutmaster@troop10.org. I think that hanging on to those email addresses may be the one non-negotiabl
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  4. Recognize that the decision is not Troopmaster or Troopwebhost. The decision is what in addition to scoutbook. You will be using scoutbook in some form. It is BSA's official tool. We stopped using Troopmaster after decades of use and we did not miss it. Sometimes, troopmaster promotes tracking data that is really the scout's to track and own. After scoutbook started and SOAR began to back off, we just used a monitored Facebook group and a Google calendar in addition to ScoutBook.
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  5. Before the advent of Scoutbook our troop used Troopmaster for many years and was extremely pleased with the data, the ease of operation, and the support available. Now we sometimes rue the day Scoutbook came into being.
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