Media Outreach

Best Practices: WYSIWYG for Church

WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get. This is an industry standard for website editors. Basically it means whatever it looks like in the editor, is exactly how it will look like on the published website. Although WYSIWYG is the standard for websites, I would not say it is the standard for most [...]

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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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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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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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Best Practices: Does design really matter ?

Does design matter ? Does it matter what your website looks like ? YES. It matters…. I had a comment on another post in which the commenter gave us (Media Outreach) a F for our “First Impressions” posts. First Impressions is where when have contracted an outside company to have random people review random websites [...]

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Link Love

Mark Driscoll gets removed and then reinstated to facebook Brad Abare writes about “Echo, God as second banana” Cynthia Ware reports from “Behind the Scenes at Echo” Paul Steinbrueck talks about why some large churches are losing influence while others are gaining it

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Echo Winner – Colt Melrose

A few months ago we did a Echo Conference contest. Well Echo started yesterday and Colt Melrose stopped by and said hello. Here is the video.

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Best Practices: Navigation and the 2 Click Rule

Have you ever lost your keys ? Of course you have, everyone loses their keys every once in a while. Can you bring back to mind the emotions you felt when you lost them this last time ? Frustration, disappointment, anger. But when you finally find them there is rejoicing ! Imagine this… someone moves [...]

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Friday Poll

How well is your internet outreach / church website working ? Very good - people come to church all the time from the internet ok - a few people have mentioned our website not so well - people say our website is bad What is the internet ? View Results pic by psd

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Echo, Echo, Echo

Do you like technology ? Do you love Jesus ? Do you like to use tech to tell people about Jesus ? I know these are probably lame questions, because if you are reading this blog the answer should be yes, yes and yes. Well I wanted to remind you that the Echo Conference in [...]

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