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Make Your Church Website #1 in Google, Please.
Sep 22nd
I just received an email from a new client with one simple request:
We would like our website to be one of the first to show when people google it. Thank you.
I thought many would benefit from my reply: More >
Choosing a Web Designer
Aug 27th
Who do you trust? Who is the expert? How do you know if a web designer is worth his weight in salt?
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a web designer. My policy is to give away information and sell a service. Early in the process with clients, I go through a “discovery” phase – finding out where they stand with their site, then I take them through a teaching phase- so that the decisions that follow are informed. This is when I often find that the clients have had a bad run with their last “webmaster” (I use that term lightly). Hindsight is 20/20 and this is a particularly hard lesson when a bad website is publicly displaying your decisions… for better or worse.
Here are a few questions you might ask to ensure your decision to hire a company or individual is a good one: More >
Worship House Kids Launches!
Oct 7th
It’s basically your one stop media shop for children’s ministry.
Free Web Hosting for Non-profits
Sep 9th
DreamHost is offering FREE web hosting for Non-profits. Yes Church, this means you!
Click here to see how you sign-up.
Free Website Giveaway!
Mar 14th
Is your church website ugly? Need a new one?
Tony Morgan and Collide Media are giving a free website overhaul (valued at $1499) to whom ever has the ugliest website and the most interesting story.
Click here and register to win!
CrazyChurch.com
Feb 19th
Want some free swag? Check out crazychurch.com
Three churches came together with two beliefs
- Church stuff out to be the best stuff.
- Churches ought to share that stuff.
My kind of people!
LinkLove
Feb 16th
Check out some great posts…
- Over at ChurchCrunch he did a great post on website layout called “Above the Fold“
- 9 reasons why youth ministry should host an online bible study.
- What is the role of the Pastor of Arts? [Video]
- You have nothing to prove, and no one to impress. [Video]
Share large files…
Feb 9th
Need to setup a shared folder online to store large files [videos, music, photos, etc.]?
Google Notebook to Evernote
Jan 29th
I know I’m late in the game, but Google announced that Google Notebook will go away in the future.
I suggest using Evernote as a solution. Evernote is very easy to capture things off of the web and then add your ideas. You can journal and much much more. Also Evernote has an Google Notebook import for those who don’t want to re-enter anything. Very cool! And it’s free. (They have premium edition that gives you more features and better experience, but the free account is fine for basic capturing functions)
Here how Evernote works…
I believe it is very important in ministry to get your ideas out of your head and on to paper or a electronic document of some sort. So develop some system and stick to it!
iDEANATION
Nov 26th
Need help on your creative planning for ministry? Or do you have great ministry idea that needs to be shared with the nation?
Check out: www.goideanation.org
I’m so pumped that someone finally made a web2.0 do to this! Kudos iDEANATION
Have a great thanksgiving!
VideoTeaching.com
Nov 20th
LifeChurch.tv is about to roll out a new endeavor. Sign up for email updates.
Churchy Media and MuxTapes
Apr 23rd
The guys at ChurchyMedia are knocking the ball out of the park when it comes to their video podcast called Short Takes.
Below I embedded a Short Take on how worship teams can use MuxTape
Keep up the good work!
Online Resources
May 14th
Using Google Spreadsheets, Church 2.0 has started to compile a list of useful sites for Pastors. We have organized the sites into the following categories Study, Theology, Worship, Preaching, & Media. These categories are found at the bottom of the spreadsheet. [View the List]
Throughout this week I’ll highlight a few of my favorite sites for each category.
This is a working/evolving document. If you have sites that you suggest we add, post a comment with the link and we’ll add it.
Why Online Collaboration?
Mar 29th
How often do you have to meet with your staff, elders, or ministry teams to create, edit, or finalize a document, a project, a plan or a schedule? What if you could do it all on your own time? That’s what online collaborating allows you to do. Create a document and share it for editing, setup a proposed schedules online and have volunteers agree or disagree to the dates proposed, share a set list so the worship team can plan and/or practice ahead of time.
One of the most difficult things is trying to work around other peoples schedules. Now you don’t have to. You can bring the meeting to them and on their time.
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