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Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Twitter for Churches
The mini-blog application Twitter seems to be the new shiny tech toy of late (which means it’s already old news). So what is Twitter? Basically you send out 140-character to ...
Your Church, the Wifi Sharer
The geek world has been abuzz lately regarding Ars Technica’s look at the ethics of stealing wifi. At Church Marketing Sucks, we don’t make too much of an effort to ...
Overnight Web Site Challenge
A Minnesota tech company is hosting the F1 Overnight Web Site Challenge, where teams of geeks will create fully functional web sites for Minnesota nonprofits in only 24 hours. Public ...
Four Pastoral Blogging Taboos and How To Fix Them
We see from the Blogging Pastor Poll Results that were posted back in November that 72% of pastors aren’t blogging successfully. I can’t imagine that the percentage has changed over ...
Death of a Podcast?
Tony Morgan, over at his blog, discussed the end of Yahoo! podcasts a while back. The service shut down, and it begs the question: Is podcast listenership in decline? He ...
A Content-Centered Internet
Ars Technica reports on a new study on the focus of individuals’ time on the Internet. Here’s what they found of people’s time online:In 2003: 34% of Internet users’ time was ...
Church YouTube Contest
A few days ago we talked about online church video. We encouraged everyone to embrace the phenomenon of online video and harness its power. One church in Boston is doing ...
Embracing Online Video
According to comScore, 75% of Internet users watched online video in May 2007, averaging 158 minutes per viewer. Nearly 8.4 billion videos were streamed online in the month of May. ...
Where’s the Church on Facebook?
If you’re plugged into the social networking site Facebook at all you’ve probably heard about the recent launch of their developer’s platform. For the uninformed, basically third party companies can ...
Understanding Attack Blogs
There’s a new and unfortunate trend in church disputes that you’ve likely heard of by now: the attack blog. Attack blogs are most commonly established by members within the ...
RSS For Your Church
So today, I was thinking to myself, “Self, those guys over at the Barna Group have some pretty neat statistics, why don’t you subscribe to their RSS feed?” Problem. I searched. And ...
Innovative Churches: Technology
Part 7 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. How will technology, including the use of media and the web, influence churches ...
Church Web Site Design Checklist
With Internet Evangelism Day fast approaching (April 29, 2007) you might want to check out the Church Site Design Checklist. It’s an automated 51-question survey that will help you figure ...
Visitors, Beer and Sex–Oh My!
Yet again the links have piled up around me faster than I can blog them, so it’s time to blow the dam and just let you have them. Here we ...
Outreach’s Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators
In my haste to dump some links on you yesterday I forgot one: Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators. It’s a web exclusive from Outreach magazine written by, oh ...
