Archive for December, 2008
The Future of Church Marketing
ChurchCrunch recently conducted an interview with Kent Shaffer of ChurchRelevance.com. One of the questions asked Kent where he thinks the future of marketing for the church is headed…Kent’s answer: “With more churches learning the importance of marketing, I think the next big trend for churches is learning how to have balance between their mission and [...]
Podcasts: Thriving or Dieing
Podcasting is a great medium for sharing very focused information usually with a very niche audience. A podcast is delivered through the Internet and typically is an ongoing series of audio or video “shows” that are broadcast on a somewhat regular schedule. In many ways they are not unlike radio programs on specific topics. The [...]
Manage Twitter with a Tree?
It was only a matter of time. As Twitter has grown in popularity, some wise-guys have been hard at work solving the management of information flow that gets poured through Twitter. Hence we have seen the beta release of TweetDeck and now another groundbreaking tool called Tweetree. I am still new to both platforms, but [...]
Tech Black-Out
It really is amazing how my life has become entwined with technology. I really noticed it the past two days when, due to a major winter storm that hit the east coast, I lost power and high speed. No technology for two days! What is one to do? Well, one spends more time with family [...]
The Tool for Managing Twitter
I have been using Twitter for close to 10 months now and continue to see excellent business and ministry networking purposes to this great social media tool. As I have continued to follow more and more interesting people, it has become increasingly difficult to stay connected with them all. It is hard to follow over [...]
Social Media Helps Ministry Win
With a title like that, I could write a post that could go in numerous directions! I really believe that social media does and will help ministries succeed. More on that another day. Today though, I just wanted to give all of you an update on a post I wrote a couple weeks ago about [...]
When You Tweet: Introduce Yourself
When you meet someone for the first time, it is customary that you introduce yourself a little. Social media really should not be any different. Yet, in some platforms like Twitter, we often don’t introduce ourselves very well when people connect with us the first time. We make it difficult for them to really get [...]
