Media Outreach

Learn More About Attracting Visitors to Your Website

Last week, I talked about ways to attract visitors to your website. We discussed: Linking to your website whenever possible Using specific link text Creating fresh, relevant content This week, I wanted to share a few more tips about search engine optimization (SEO). If you are new to SEO, the whole thing may sound a bit confusing. I know it [...]

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Utilizing Video on Your Website

A great way to enhance your web presence is to use video in your content areas. By engaging people with video, you give them a reason to stay and explore the rest of your site. Often times, people will view a short clip on your website, because they are seeking to gauge the personality of [...]

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Go Live of the Week: Abundant Life Church

Check out this new website from faithHighway. Abundant Life Church While this site has many great features including Sermon Flow, Interactive Calendar, and Flash Rotation, the thing that makes this site stand out the most is the excellent content work. We wanted to take the opportunity to remind all of you about the importance of developing, organizing, [...]

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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 a conversation as [...]

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Best Practices: Programs vs. People

I read an interesting article this morning, although I knew this was coming as the tech blogosphere has been buzzing with this news as they hint at the release of the next gen iPhone next week. AT&T has announced its new data plans, and they have completely obliterated the unlimited data plan. You can read [...]

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Best Practices – Custom Facebook Pages

I spend a ton of time on Facebook. Probably more than I should. @lauraburrus thinks I’m a Facebook stalker because I comment constantly, and almost immediately on my friends posts. I can’t help it. I’m a relationship oriented individual, and I truly care what my friends are doing. Facebook has integrated itself into most of our [...]

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Best Practices- Church Computer Hardware

As I start writing this blog post, I know it is going to incite some readers into thinking “them’s fightin’ words!” but that is really not my intention, so please take this post for what it is. I have recently been doing some photography for friends who are in school who want portraits done. Thanks to [...]

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Best Practices – Event Overload

Churches are happening places! Not only do we have1-2 weekly, full blown get-togethers, we also have our bible studies, small group meetings, potlucks, youth groups, retreats and special events. I would imagine your church has anywhere between 20 and 30 ‘things’ going on every month. I know mine does. In my years working with the church, [...]

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Best Practices: Reaching Out to Young Couples

For many young couples, the first step after getting married is to find jobs and re-locate to a new place where they can start their new life and, one day, have a family.  I don’t think there’s a more vital time to have a church home and fellow Christians to connect with than during this [...]

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Best Practices- The rest of the year

Resurrection Sunday was great at my church. I haven’t laughed so much at church in a very long time. Amongst the gems from Pastor Tony were “Jesus is like the death star. When you get close, he pulls you in with his tractor beam”, “Mo’ money, that’s right, mo’ problems”, and “if you hate your [...]

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