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No One is Reading Your Pastor’s Blog

Talk to most church website compaines and they will tell you that your pastors should be blogging. That it will connect your congregation with your pastor, give them the inside view of what your pastor is thinking and feels about theology. Well, I am here to tell you that no one cares right now and you need to change the way you think about having your pastors blog.

Your blog is always, always, ALWAYS out dated.
This is probably the largest turn off for most potential readers of your blog. Most pastors I have seen, post one or two things, then forget that they even have a blog. This is not a good blogging strategy. Blogging and building a sense of community takes time. You need to focus on creating content on a regular basis, a few times a week is a good pace, it doesn’t need to be every day. Blogging is a big time commitment and pastors are busy people, so if they cannot commit to blogging regularly, then don’t have them attempt it!

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Making Sure Your Video Is Legal

There has been a lot of news recently about HTML5 and the use of video. Apple is endorsing a codec (a way of encoding video) called h.264, but with any new technology it is important to understand the licensing issues involved and to make sure your church is not breaking any type of licensing requirements.  After the break I will walk you h.264 and what to expect if you are posting videos to your church website.

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I emailed Steve Jobs about iAd and HTML5, his response…

This morning I emailed Steve Jobs. My full time job is designing and developing flash ads and I wanted to make sure that I am preparing myself as a designer/developer for Apple’s new iAd platform. So I emailed Steve to see if the new iAds platform would allow full HTML5 animations or if we can only use HTML5 to display video based ads. Looks like we will be able to use complete HTML5 for our ads. Full email after the break.

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I got an iPad. Wonder what God would think.

I bought an iPad this weekend. I had to wait 2 hours in line.

Would I wait in line for two hours to get in to a church service? No.

There’s a problem with that. What do you think?

iPad for the Church?

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.

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Why No One Visits Your Church Website

“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. Most church websites suffer from content overload, too much content with very little focus. Keep reading to see how we can get back to simple church websites that are an effective ministry tool.

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Church Website Ideas: Google Business Listings

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 of Google. I am not going to write an entire article on SEO strategies or anything complex. One thing that is often overlooked is that with very little effort or skill you can get your church website to show up in the Google Business listings area of a search result.

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17 Images for Memorial Day

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.

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What is Church Website Ideas?

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 and provide some tools to help everyone out. So what is this site all about?

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Top 23 Websites from the 100 Fastest Growing Churches in America

Today we wanted to take a look through Outreach Magazines 100 Fastest Growing Churches and see what those churches were up to online. We were a little surprised with what we found. Our thoughts were that the fastest growing churches in America would be doing some really innovative things online. We were wrong. Poor website design was very common as we went through the list. We did find 23 churches that had websites that are worth mentioning. After the jump you will find our picks for the top websites of the fastest growing churches in America.

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