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Archive for May 2006
Fired, Tired or Wired Poll
Last week we asked you to describe your church in terms of outreach, communications and technology. 25% were wired but it didn’t seem to be doing any good. 23%, however, ...
Church Marketing Lab Round Up #8
The Church Marketing Lab. Have you heard about it? 211 other people have, and they’re taking part in the Great Commission by helping churches communicate better so they can reach ...
MinistryCom Awards
This year’s MinistryCom conference will also include the first ever Excellence in Communications Awards. It’s a chance for churches to be recognized for creating marketing that doesn’t suck. Categories include outreach ...
MinistryCom 2006
The MinistryCom church communication conference is coming to Phoenix Sept. 7-8, 2006. It’s billed as the only national conference catering to church communication professionals and this year’s conference includes an ...
Churches Respond to The DaVinci Code
In the past few weeks I’ve talked to the L.A. Times, Fox News and Court TV’s Crier Live. It all started with The DaVinci Code. I worked with a church ...
Seacoast All Access
Seacoast Church in South Carolina is adopting an open-source policy for their resources and making them available online. Seacoast All Access is where you can get messages, bulletin covers, e-vites, ...
Web 2.0 Series Wrap-Up
For the past month and a half we’ve been looking at the web 2.0 trend and what it could mean for your church. We’ve looked at the highs and lows, ...
Wall Street Journal on Church Tech
We’ll go from west coast to east coast today as the Wall Street Journal covers technology in churches. The piece focuses on churches trying new methods, like MySpace and Flickr ...
A Whole New Mind
If you’re reading CMS, you’re proving your interest in how your church can impact your community–and probably also how culture is impacting your church. With that in mind, I highly recommend ...
L.A. Times on Church Marketing
The L.A. Times covered church marketing and technology today in an article called “God’s Call Comes by Cellphone”. A few interesting quotes include: “We dare not change the Gospel. But the ...
How Your Church Can Ignore Web 2.0
Part 8 in a series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Almost a month and a half ago we started talking about web 2.0 and what it could mean ...
Church Marketing Lab Poll
Last week we asked about the Church Marketing Lab, our church communications critique group that replaced the old peer review section. 26% of you are members of the lab and ...
Church Marketing Lab Round Up #7
It’s a lazy Saturday and no one else is blogging, so head on over to the Church Marketing Lab and offer feedback to some church communicators trying not to suck ...
Hug Your Customers by Jack Mitchell
Does your church hug your visitors? Well, not actually physically hug your visitors—that’s fraught with touch-feely vibes and is going way too far over that safe church line—but does your ...
King of the Hill Goes to Church
How about a little pop culture perspective on church shopping and the ever-popular mega-church? Check out this clip of the Hill family going church shopping on King of the Hill ...
