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Catalyst West Tweetup
The Catalyst West event is happening later this week in Orange County, Calif., and more than a few church marketing folks will be there. Worship leader and social media addict ...
Social Media Boot Camp for Pastors
There are currently 400 million active users on Facebook. They’re sharing 3 billion photos each month, 5 billion pieces of content each week and 60 million status updates every single ...
Live Interview with Church Marketing Gurus
Tune in tomorrow, Nov. 19 at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT), as Conversant Life does a live interview with Phil Cooke and Brad Abare. They’ll be talking church marketing ...
Cultivate & Story: Church Communication in Chicagoland
As the autumnal march of church conferences continues, this was a big week with Cultivate and Story in the Chicago area. Both conferences had different approaches–Cultivate was no frills, community-based ...
Leadership Lessons from the Nines
About a month ago the Leadership Network hosted the Nines web conference on Sept. 9, 2009. It was a day-long event of over 70 leaders sharing lessons via nine minute ...
Cultivate 2009: See you in Chicago!
I’ve said it before: The best part of conferences aren’t the speakers, it’s the relationships and conversations that happen at the conference. A new conference, Cultivate, has embraced that and ...
MinistryCOM 2009 Recap
Two weeks ago the MinistryCOM conference came together outside Chicago, kicking off the Fall church communication event schedule (seriously–have you checked out the fall line up?). Our own Brad Abare ...
The 3d Retreat: Sept. 25-26 in Holland, Mich.
It’s been a while since we’ve discussed Local Labs on Church Marketing Sucks, but we want you to know that some of them are still going strong. Don’t believe us? ...
A Conference of Compassion
If you look at our calendar, you’ll see that there are a lot of conferences out there–one for everyone. There’s one right around the corner that sets itself apart for ...
SXSW for Your Church
Plenty of you have surely heard of South by Southwest (SXSW) before. And some of you probably know that you can vote for what sessions are held at SXSW 2010. ...
Story: Oct. 28-29 Near Chicago
Last week I received a very nice package from Ben Arment, the lead brain behind Story. It looks like Carlos Whittaker received a similar package–watch Los open it, he looks ...
2009 HOW Design Conference Wrap-Up Report
I’m a week late posting this, as I really struggled how to put the HOW Design Conference in words. It was really quite incredible to simply be invited to speak ...
Updates From the Events Lab
We wanted to give you a reminder that Michael Buckingham, of CFCC and Holy Cow fame, will be speaking again this year at the HOW Design Conference in Austin, Texas. ...
What’s the Story?
It’s been a week of exciting news in the world of church communications events. First on the list, the Center for Church Communication is excited to announce a new conference, ...
