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 them [...]
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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 [...]
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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 think.
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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 [...]
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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 the [...]
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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. This [...]
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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 Journal [...]
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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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Does it help to know that even professionals can struggle when trying to market the church? Church Marketing Sucks tells us the story of Angus Kinnaird, a marketing pro who worked on the “Jesus: All About Life” campaign in Austrailia.
Have you ever worked really hard on a church-related marketing campaign without the level of success [...]
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BetaChurch points us to MarketLeap, a company providing some very cool free tools for search engine optimization.
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Yesterday ZDNet quoted Bill Gates as saying, “As we bring AD and Passport together, Hotmail and Exchange together, and MSN Spaces and SharePoint together, we give you the richness but also the choice of having it as a server or a service.”
This tidbit offers some intriguing insight into Microsoft’s product plans. The availability of functions [...]
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There has been a lot of trade press coverage today on the unveiling of the new look for Office 12 at Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference. The best information I’ve seen is this blog on PC World by Harry McCracken. Office 12 is due out in the second half of 2006.
Those of us involved in church [...]
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Perhaps you saw Robert Scoble’s interview of Bill Gates on Microsoft’s Channel 9. I found the interview interesting, which isn’t surprising as I suspect I’d be interested in practically any interview of Bill Gates. But what struck me the most is the way Scoble and the team at Channel 9 are innovating the use of [...]
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It’s hard to believe that Church of the Resurrection’s annual Leadership Institute is only three weeks away. This year we’re blessed to have Mark Stephenson of Ginghamsburg Church and Chuck Russell of United Methodist Communications (UMCOM) presenting a 4-hour workshop on web ministry. Mark is the director of the Web Empowered Church, a new initiative [...]
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