Tag Archive - ideas

Developing A Vision For Your Church Website

September 8, 2010 in Articles, Website Launch Guide with 0 Comments

Your church website is likely the first place most people will visit long before stepping through your church doors. But today, most church websites read as a billboard, shouting at the user, yelling why Church X is the best church, the coolest, and the most unique. This technique turns people off. It screams at users, when they want to engage your website, learn more about you, and develop a relationship.

More than ever pastors need to manage their church’s online presence, thoughtfully and faithfully developing a vision, and a mission for the church website. To view the church website as another arm of ministry, with the potential to reach new people every day.

I will help walk you through this idea of developing your vision, creating goals, a website plan, then where to start in the process of creating your church website.

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17 Images for Memorial Day

May 22, 2009 in Articles, Inspiration with 1 Comment

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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16 More Online Apps For Your Church – File Storage and Email

April 13, 2009 in Online Tools with 2 Comments

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 had to email it to myself so that I could access it at my work.  Now, we can upload it online and access it from any computer with an internet connection! I also outlined a few email marketing applications that will allow  you to track all the emails you have sent, see who opened it, or clicked on a link. Enjoy!

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45 Twitter Apps for Churches

March 24, 2009 in Twitter with 4 Comments

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.

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7 Reasons Your Church Should Use MySpace

March 23, 2009 in Articles with 0 Comments

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.

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30 Images to Inspire Your Designs

March 20, 2009 in Inspiration with 6 Comments

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.

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Make Your Church Website Better Today

March 19, 2009 in Articles with 4 Comments

Top 5 Things You Can Do To Make Your Church Website Better Today

This was a post I originally made on my business website simplechurchmarketing.com. The idea was to get some basic information to pastors to help them with the no-duh type stuff most web designers are familiar with. Over the next five days I will be expanding this original article, exploring each aspect in more detail.

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