Media Outreach

Best Practices: Image Placement within Content

You’ve probably heard “content is king”. And I agree, but if content is king image placement is his queen. The job of content is to tell the facts, the job of the image is to show the story. Together they rule the land of the webspace. I think I am like most people, in that [...]

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Trendy Tuesday

#fact -  People are discussing different “facts” about themselves. Really, it is just another way to tell someone information about yourself. #iranelection -  Months after the election, people are still tweeting about the outcome. DWTS - Dancing With the Stars- season finale. Who watches? What did you think? Iphone – seems like it is always [...]

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The Q: How can I make my content look awesome?

Greg gives you some tips on making your content look as good as the rest of your site. After all, content is king! pic by Beadmobile

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Link Love: The Digital Sanctuary

The Digital Sanctuary is the personal blog of Cynthia Ware, a Foursquare minister with over 2o years of pastoral minstry and a Master’s Degree in New Media. At The Digital Sanctuary Cynthia “encourages Christian leaders to explore, embrace and employ participatory media technologies to serve the Kingdom of God.” You can find countless articles and [...]

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God Created You

Words fail me when I ponder on God’s creative nature.  One need only glance at nature and experience His artistic genius.  From the beginning of what we call time, God has created what I like to call signs that point back to Him. I love to listen to people share their experiences, differences, cultures and [...]

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First Impressions: Site with clear navigation but lacking visual spice receives a C-

First Impressions is facilitated through Guest Reflections. People are asked to pick a website from a church in their area at random and review it. These sites may or may not be powered by faithHighway. Church Location: Orlando, FL User Profile: Female 60+ years old Caucasian Area Resident for 11 or more years Attends Church [...]

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Guest Post: Brent L. Bolin “The Danger of using Twitter as part of a Worship Service”

Originally Brent sent an email response to “What Twitter Can’t Do for My Church“. I thought his comments needed to have more room and asked if we could turn his response into a post. He graciously agreed and here we are ! – Craig Littlejohn Media Outreach As a leader of a video ministry, I [...]

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Best Practices: Interactivity

Dictionary.com defines interactivity as “the extent to which something is interactive; the extent to which a computer program and human being may have a dialog.” When it comes to websites “interactivity” is what people “do” on your website. Watch a video, fill out a form, send a prayer request, search a database for small groups… [...]

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Rick Warren joins twitter

Rick Warren wants you to follow him on Twitter In a recent email update from Rick Warren, he stated that he has started using Twitter, after being skeptical about it at first. Rather than just sending updates about what he’s “doing,” to his 21,000 plus followers, he uses Twitter as a tool to encourage leaders [...]

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Trendy Tuesdays 8.11.09

#nevertrust- Tweets about things you should never trust.  There were some interesting tweets about this subject. Interesting to see what people don’t trust. GI Joe-  The new G.I. Joe movie is out and was top at the box office this weekend. Anyone see it? iTunes- the new Palm webOS 1.1 gives you access to your [...]

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