Media Outreach

Blog Review: Are We Building Bench-Riding Believers?

A blog post on Church Marketing Sucks’ blog by Brian Gaffney caught my attention this week. (disclaimer: we advertise with CMSucks- but I didn’t choose this blog because of that.) In his post, Brian Gaffney, talks about the messages your church marketing materials are sending. He relates it to a sports team and how the coveted [...]

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Communication Tools To Make or Break You

Communication  can be the difference of right or wrong, success or failure and life or death.  Church marketing guru, Steve Fogg, shares a list of his favorite communication tools on a  recent blog post. When thinking about what works for your audience, what all do you take into consideration?  Do you consider where they spend their [...]

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The Real Faces of Facebook

Ever since Facebook was launched in 2004, I’ve been a member. I remember the buzz around the Texas Tech (Wreck ‘em!) campus when everyone was signing up.  Terms like, “Facebook me” and “tag me” weren’t quite a part of our everyday language, yet. But…one thing I learned right from the start was that you could wear [...]

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What you need to know about Facebook’s new feature: Places

This new feature on Facebook allows users to “check in” at different locations and then send a post to the user’s Facebook account informing everyone of their location. Other applications comparable to this feature include Gowalla and Foursquare. The feature also allows users to tag their friends in their location and allows users to see which of [...]

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The Weight of Vision

With the new school year upon us, I’m sure you’re experiencing an increase in the pace at your organization. When the whirlwind of extreme busyness blows through the office, is a feeling of fear evoked? Or the comfort that your staff can handle it? I’ve experienced the ebb and flow of office busyness and different types [...]

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Blog Review: 40 Ways You Can Invite People to Church

I ran across this blog post- 40 Ways You Can Invite People to Church by Michael Lukaszewski and thought there were some good ideas on inviting people to church. Click on the link above to read the whole list. Some of my favorite ones were: Dress up like a Star Wars character wherever there are people and take [...]

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Made to be You!

Yesterday I spent 12 hours staring at a teleprompter and green screen- listening to the same script over and over.  I had never done that before and I quickly realized that I was not made to work in a film studio. Maybe if I was designing a set or directing, I could do it.  My [...]

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The Tremendous Power of Social Media

There is tremendous power in social media. I’ve had many dinner conversations (more like debates) with some family members about Twitter, Facebook, and social media. There’s a lot of people out there that think it’s a waste of time or that is doesn’t hold the same value as face to face communication. I’ll agree, it’s [...]

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Confessions of a News Junkie

For the last two weeks, I haven’t watched TV nor have I had access to the Internet in my apartment. My roommate recently moved out and a new one moved in, but we haven’t set up the new cable/Internet service. Not for a lack of trying…that’s another story.  It’s okay, though.  I don’t watch that [...]

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Technology: How do you use it?

I thought it would be fun to gather some random information on how our readers use technology. Please fill out our 1 minute survey by clicking the link below: Click here to take survey Photo By: Cyrillicus

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