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!
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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!
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.
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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Today we share with you 45 Twitter apps that churches can benefit from! Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends.
Here are the top three reasons that Google Docs will help your ministry team get the word out to your church. None of these ideas are new to the web, but Google has founded a joint effort to allow you to collaborate, publish and access your docs from anywhere online. Give it a try on your next project and see how easy it is to create and manage content for your team and the families of your church!
MySpace has been around for six years now, it’s not going anywhere. I still talk to churches that are not sure if they want to jump in with a church MySpace page. MySpace provides the church an opportunity to engage in culture, connect to their community, keep members up to date on events, share sermon audio and video, and the best part is that people can find your church online, unlike your church website. I like to think of MySpace as one of many tools that churches and pastors must use in order to keep connected with their members and more importantly, their community. Over the next few weeks I will cover a few of the social network tools available to churches in an effort to help overcome the fear of taking the social network leap.
We are always looking for new icons. We are happy to share with you over 200 icons that you can use for your design projects and websites. We are always on the lookout for new designs, so if you have any or have designed some please let us know. We would love to feature them on our site! Enjoy!
I love photography. I am always looking for new inspiration when it comes to designing websites. Exploring other mediums of art and design give us opportunity to push the boundaries of what we know. Over the next few weeks, I hope to keep bringing you more image lists that will help you in your design projects. If you have images you would like to share please email me, or post in the comments.
Below is a collection of 30 images that will hopefully inspire you! All of these have come from our good friends over at deviantART, enjoy.
This is a follow up article to “Make Your Website Better“. I wanted to take a chance over the next few days to dive deeper into five areas that I feel that most church websites lack. Today I want to provide some resources for pastors and web designers out there who are interested in where exactly to get stock images to use for sermon series, worship slides, or just to help inspire ideas. These resources include some free image libraries and some paid or subscription based libraries
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