After nearly a decade of rumors Apple finally unveiled the much hyped Apple Tablet, the iPad. While this device could never live up to the mass hype that internet has built over the last decade, most people seem to be disappointed in Apple’s latest gadget. Not me. I see a tool that can help pastors and the church. After the break I outline few a reasons why this device will help you.
Churches have always have a hard time fighting the persona of being slow to adopt new trends. In web design churches have made up a lot of ground. I am very happy to see that a lot of churches are putting emphasis on their church websites!
A friend of mine recently introduced me to CreativeMYK, a site dedicated to providing church designers free resources for their designs. The idea is simple, create an account, provide some of your stuff to share and network with other designers. The site is very cool and provides a ton a resources for designers new and old.
“I just don’t think our church is using our website.” It’s an issue I hear all the time. The truth is that this has very little to do with your website design. It really has to do you and how your church utilizes your website.
Everyday I am bringing you my lastest finds from around the ‘net. Today comes a free fully functional website from Forest Theme! Check out the details after the jump.
Everyday I am bringing you my latest free find of the day! Today is a very cool HD After Effects video source file from the amazing team over at Video Hive. Check it out after the jump!
Today I wanted to share with you a small collection of free mobile apps for your smart phone. I love gadgets and I love being able to find great apps for my iPhone. I hope you enjoy these free apps !
Well all love free! So in honor of free, everyday I am adding a free resource for you to use on your website or something that might simply help your ministry. Today I wanted to share a tool kit with those of you who are youth pastors.
Today I am going to start sharing with you all a free item of the day. What type of item? Depends! It can be a video loop, a worship video, a wordpress theme, or just about anything. Hit the jump to get your free file!
The most common question I get when talking to pastors and church website staff is: “How can I get my church to show up on page one of Google?” This is a very reasonable question and there are a lot of tactics on how to get your website to show up on the first page [...]
Two weeks ago we shared 21 Free Video Loops for Churches, well, as the saying goes you get what you pay for. This list includes 22 high quality video loops that can be purchased for use in your worship service or for your website videos.
We all need a little inspiration from time to time. Today I share with you 22 websites you can use that will inspire your next designs. Each of these sites are online galleries that showcase the best website designs. I hope these will help inspire your next creations!
It can be difficult if you are tossed into updating your church website and have no idea what you are doing. I want to provide you a few tools that will help you in your journey to becoming a web designer! Well, at least some tools that will help you keep your church website up [...]
I am going to start sharing with you all more from my Google reader. I currently have 67 christian blogs the I subscribe to. These blogs vary in content, each hitting a different area of industry, ministry, or technology. Each week, I hope to share with you one person’s blog you should subscribe to or [...]
Video can provide a wonderful dimension to a worship service, it can serve as a great tool for intro for sermon series, and can provide great depth to your church website. Today, I share with you 21 free video loops for churches. Please enjoy these and if you have a free video loop the you [...]
A lot of the questions I have recieved over the last few weeks have been in regards to podcasting. Podcasting is a great tool we have today that allows pastors and churches to share sermons with their memebers directly from the church website. Also, users can subscribe to messages which will automaticlly download to their [...]
Last November Zondervan bought a community building platform from Mars Hill Church, named simply, The City. Zondervan has now re-launched The City out to the public. The service looks very promising, as a fully scalable service for churches of any size.
“The City enhances and deepens the community in your church that already exists. It isn’t [...]
It has been awhile since our list real update, so now that things have calmed down over at Simple Church Marketing, we will be getting back to regular, daily updates to the blog! Last month we shared 45 Twitter Apps for Churches, today we wanted to share with you all top 10 pastors you should [...]
I wanted to take time today to share wit you some images in honor of memorial day. Often it is easy for me just to blast through this holiday with out much thought. I want to encourage you all to take time this weekend to pray for our soldiers. Enjoy the long weekend.
I wanted to let everyone who visits the blog that I am back from vaction and you can expect my reagular daily updates to continue tomorrow as usual. Thank you everyone for your comments and emails while I was gone!
This is the last of the online application posts for awhile, I think. Today we look at file storage and email marketing apps. Churches should now be keeping files online so that they can be accessed anywhere. I cannot think about how many times I have worked on a sermon out of the office, then [...]
Yesterday I shared Top Chart, Diagram, and Whiteboard Tools for Pastors. Today we look at the top applications for collaboration with your team! Managing your staff can be one of the most challenging aspects of being a pastor and most churches do not have typical business hours, so the use of collaboration tools can really [...]
Yesterday we covered online calender and scheduling tools for pastors. Today we move on to online chart, diagram, and whiteboard tools for pastors. Each of these items are simple to use and provide a good way to jot down thoughts or ideas. I love the idea of being able to share a mind map about [...]
I wanted to take time this week to organize my thoughts about what the overall vision is for Church Website Ideas. To be honest, I did not intend for this to become something that would be popular. I have viewed this project as a way for me to express how I feel about church websites [...]
This week I am going to share with you online tools that pastors should be using. Today is part one: Appointments and Calendars. I have said that pastors have to be extremely organized individuals, they have a lot of thing that they have to manage. Today, I want to share with you 11 online calender [...]
I love blogs! I love that all the content I want is sent to me so I can read it on my time. I enjoy every morning that I get to sip a nice cup of coffee and read all the blogs I subscribe to. Today I wanted to share part of my list with [...]
Happy April Fool’s Day! Instead of the typical jokes, fake news articles, or photoshoped images I am happy to share with you some Spring images to give you hope for the change in color that is already on its way. I use images to give me inspiration in my designs. The biggest takeaway I have [...]
This week we are reviewing the bottom three reasons to use Google Docs. G-Docs (that is what we call it in the hood) is an online service that allows you to manage documents online.
