We’ve had an exciting couple of days here at Church of the Resurrection. Yesterday, I had the chance to present on Web Empowered Church with Mark Stephenson of Ginghamsburg Church and The Appian Way’s own Chuck Russell. We had a great time with the people who attended this 4-hour intensive workshop. I know many of [...]
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Here are a couple of recent posts by Sam of “remixable” that help us understand and articulate the importance of church websites in reaching people today and having credibility. First, he asks whether a church is invisible if it doesn’t have a website. He then goes on to talk about local search, which is a [...]
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Steve Heyduck of banditsnomore points us to an insightful take on the prevailing theology of teenagers. Christian Smith and Melinda Lunddquist Denton are calling it, “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism”. That’s a mouthful, but it says a lot. Teenagers are among the prime populations we’re seeking to serve through the web, so we better know what they [...]
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David Gillaspey of Great Church Websites likes the picture and testimonial on the home page of our Resurrection website, as well as Senior Pastor Adam Hamilton’s weekly e-note to the congregation. In the same article he also mentioned the Transformation Journal at Ginghamsburg church. Open source software developed at Ginghamsburg for this is now available [...]
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Tony Morgan posts today about leadership. I’m printing this one and putting it up in my cubicle.
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Rob Williams of Effective Web Ministry Notes points us to Ann Wylie’s tipsheets on writing great copy. Good stuff.
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Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users posts here about making the culture of a large company more customer-focused. I thought a lot of her comments were helpful in thinking about how to write web page copy for seekers. Here are a few ideas I found particularly interesting … Language matters. Frame everything in terms of [...]
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I promised Mark Stephenson would make an exciting announcement about Web-Empowered Church at at Church of the Resurrection’s annual Leadership Institute, which is Thursday through Sunday: Sept. 29 through Oct. 1. Well, I just previewed Mark’s announcement in the post below! It’s not too late to plan to come to Kansas City for Leadership Institute. [...]
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Mark Stephenson, Director of Cyberministry at Ginghamsburg Church, and also the director of Web-Empowered Church, announced yesterday the availability of the “Pre-Release” of the Web-Empowered Church software and documentation, based on the TYPO3 open source content management system. This release includes software and documentation for:1. WEC Common Configuration2. Six Templa Voila Templates (+ variations)3. Devotional [...]
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Seth Godin gives us a way to articulate the value of blogging. His key idea is that when people read a blog, they are giving the blogger their attention. And, when it comes to marketing and communications, attention is very valuable. Thanks to BetaChurch for linking and commenting on this.
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