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 an event coming up, or even my next sermon series. This list is much shorter than normal, and breaks my rule of not posting things that have less than 10 items in it, but I am tired and I want to spend much needed time with my wife. So enjoy these! And don’t worry, the long lists will be back soon!
Helping Churches Build Better Websites
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?
Online Tools for Pastors Part 1: Appointments and Calendars
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 and meeting applications that will make tracking your time much easier. Some of these applications are free, but all of them have free trials. I have personally used most of these at one time or another. Enjoy!
Top 12 Pastor Blogs to Help Deepen Your Faith
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 you. If you want to dive deeper into the minds of some of the most innovative or knowledgeable pastors in America, then this list is for you. Each of these blogs are updated on a regular basis. They all provide good resources, relevant content, and will challenge you. I hope you add all these Pastors to your blog lists!
Spring Images for April Inspiration
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 from spring photos are the amazing color palates. Spring brings a wonderful splash of color when we most need it!
As always comments are welcomed! I am also interested in seeing your work as well! So if you have some work you would like featured here please email me and I will make it happen.
Enjoy these images!
Bottom 3 Reasons to Use Google Docs
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. We are talking about spread sheets, word documents, presentations and forms. They are not the only player in this game: Microsoft, Adobe and a sleu of small non-epic groups like Zoho, Ether Pad and Think Free offer similar products. So after waxing about the top three reasons to use G-Docs last week we present the least of these.
39 Apps to Organize Your Church and Life
A lot of companies have really embraced the Web 2.o movement and the church can make use of a lot of the applications available online. Today, your church staff needs to be very organized, as they are dealing with a lot of information: sermon notes, video, podcasts, meetings, counseling appointments, and planning events to name a few. I have listed 39 applications that you can use to organize your church and your life!
Enjoy!
46 Joomla Resources for Churches
It’s all about Joomla today! Joomla is a free, open source Content Management System that is used to power a ton of websites. It has a huge community of developers behind it. philiprabon asked for some resources in how to work with the Joomla system. These resources cover everything from the initial setup of Joomla to free templates! If you have any questions about something please send us a tweet!
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.
21 Facebook Apps For Your Church
Yesterday we shared with you 45 Twitter App For Your Church, today we are going to share with you 21 Facebook Apps for Your Church! Facebook has overtaken MySpace as the major Social Network, with the majority of users over 18 years old. Just like MySpace, Facebook is a great way to connect to members of your community, help get your church name out there, and give your members another easy way to connect to each other. We hope that you find these apps of value and that they will help your ministry!
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