Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

technology Article
July 19, 2005

Search Engine Marketing for Churches

Last week we talked about a church successfully using keyword advertising. The story was mentioned in an article from the Search Engine Guide and covers churches and search engine marketing. ...

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technology Article
July 19, 2005

Bob Lutz: Jump Into Blogging

Some days I feel like I’m beating a dead horse, but in case you’ve missed our previous calls for pastors to blog, maybe you’ll listen to General Motors vice chairman ...

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examples Article
July 14, 2005

Learning from Churches that Work

Terry Storch (who brought us Church Marketing Sucks, What Works For You?) along with Tony Morgan have put together a list of Top 10 Innovative Churches. Every church’s web site ...

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technology Article
July 13, 2005

Top 10 Ways to Keep a Web Visitor from Being a Church Visitor

Tony Morgan of Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. shares his list of Top 10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website, including ...

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advertising Article
July 12, 2005

Keyword Advertising for Churches

Search term advertising has been the latest rage. It’s cheap, incredibly trackable, easy to do—and often effective. Is your church trying it? The Rock at Church Ranch in Westminster, Colo. has ...

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technology Article
July 8, 2005

Google Church Map

Check it out: All the churches in a 500 mile radius of my zip code with a Dallas Theological Seminary graduate as pastor. Well, sort of. It appears to be ...

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technology Article
June 27, 2005

Web Site or Web Ministry?

Does your church have a web site or a web ministry? Silas Partners is a company that helps ministries with web solutions and they’ve put together an article exploring the ...

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technology Article
June 22, 2005

Online Donations Justify the Web

Tim Bednar makes the connection between online donations and web sites, building off our earlier conversation about paying church webmasters. He notes some surprising facts about online donations: Online donations increased ...

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technology Article
June 7, 2005

Volunteer Church Webmasters Should Quit

Everyone’s talking about Michael Boyink’s post about how church webmasters should stop working for free, for good reason. Effective Web Ministry Notes tipped us off, and Heal Your Church Web ...

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technology Article
May 25, 2005

How Blogging Can Help the Church

We’ve said it before, but sometimes it helps to hear it from someone else: Lifeway offers four ways blogging can help the church, based on the BusinessWeek article, “Blogs Will ...

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technology Article
May 13, 2005

Church Blogging

Brian Bailey, the Internet Manager for Fellowship Church in Dallas, was interviewed by Shel Israel for the forthcoming business blogging book by Israel and Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble (chapter 5 ...

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multimedia Article
May 13, 2005

Evangelism & IT Lessons by Robert Scoble

Not sure how we missed this (probably because it pre-dates us), but last year Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble visited Fellowship Church in Dallas and wrote the Ten Evangelism and IT ...

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technology Article
April 5, 2005

How to Podcast

For those interested in podcasting, Nick Ciske of Creative Church offers his notes from his podcasting session at the Internet Evangelism Conference this past weekend.…

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technology Article
March 22, 2005

Lenten Blogging

The Miami Herald covers Lenten blogging: “The idea is that church is not a Sunday thing anymore; it’s going to be something that permeates your life,” said Jeff Sharlet, editor of ...

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technology Article
March 8, 2005

It’s Time To Catch Up: iPod Church Finder

In a well written, pithy press release, the “Irish Pubs Directory” people announced that you can now download the iPod version of their list and ratings: “You won’t always have access ...

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