Media Outreach

Blog Review: Green Stop Signs in Church Marketing

A recent post on Church Marketing Sucks by Paul Hickernell talked about church marketing through it’s communication pieces: bulletins, invite cards, announcements, slides…etc. Using lots of fonts, words, colors and designs, isn’t always a good thing. A stop sign does its job because it’s simple and recognizable. Our brain is trained to react when it [...]

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Fall Events

The fall is just around the corner. Careful…it might come right out and bite you. Anyway, that means those huge back-to-school church kick-off events are also right around the corner. Have you started the plans yet? Now is the time. Here are a few things to consider for your fall event. Make sure the event [...]

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What Weight Loss Taught Me

I spent the last 4 weeks in a weight loss contest for the local radio station in town. I was pitted against 4 other contestants, most of whom weighed more than me, to see who could lose the most weight in 1 month. A supplement company supplied us with their latest & greatest, and we [...]

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10 Tips for Leaving Comments on Blog Posts

Be specific- tell the author what you like/didn’t like about the post. General comments like, “nice post,” are encouraging, but it’s more conversational to leave more detail about what stood out to you. Use correct grammar and punctuation. Always read the entire article before leaving a comment. Don’t act like a know-it-all- try to encourage [...]

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Five Ways to Ruin Your Website

While are many wonderful things you can do to continually enhance your website, there are just as many things you can do to degenerate it as well.  More than 8 out of 10 people will attend your church after first visiting the website.  The quality of the site can only increase if you want to [...]

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First Impressions: Decent content and functionality with poor graphics yields a B minus

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: Detroit, MI User Profile: Female 30 to 39 years old African-American Area Resident for 11 or more years [...]

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Blog review: The Gathered and Scattered Church ONLINE

Christian Web Trends just posted something on their blog that I found very interesting- something I hadn’t thought of:  gathering and scattering on and offline.  Paul Steinbrueck made an interesting point that while we’re used to gathering together offline, it’s important that a church also gather and scatter online. Here are some points that me [...]

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My 100th Blog Post

I’ve been writing for MediaOutreach since December 2008. I was trying think of something fun to do for the 100th post…and couldn’t think of anything.  I’ve written 11 posts about Facebook, 28 about Twitter, 11 personal experiences, 20 on Social Media and 29 miscellaneous. I’m going to be a little bit of a narcissist today [...]

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Nothing New Under the Sun

There is nothing new under the sun. But, there are things we still haven’t discovered.  Even now, we’re discovering new species on the planet. Beautiful, strange new species.  Some look similar to those we are familiar with, others are completely baffling. See these newly revealed creatures: http://shutr.bz/2t. As the world turns and we discover new [...]

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First Impressions: Site that needs graphic work receives a B

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: Oskaloosa, IA User Profile: Female 25 to 29 years old Caucasian Area Resident 3 to 5 years Attends [...]

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