Church Online Video/Webinar: Communication Channel Selection: web? print? social media? or all of the above?

We have so many ways we can share the messages of our church today, often our biggest challenge is knowing which one to use. The video here is an overview of the communication channels available to church communicators today along with a discussion of the positives and challenges about each one. It also encourages you [...]

Request for advice from a new missionary, how to communicate?

I recently got an email asking for communication advice on how to communicate as a missionary. Though I shared some ideas (I did missionary communications for years for two Christian organizations), this is an area that both I and Rusty, the missionary who asked, would greatly appreciate your input–either for him as a missionary, what [...]

A website content sharing tool, FREE & easy to use

Effective use of the web is all about interconnections. We read something of value and we want our friends to know about it. We blog and we want to let our Twitter followers know we did it or post it on our Facebook page. We’d like our Facebook to automatically link to our blog or [...]

What is honestly unfortunate—communication channel pride

7-29-09 the quote below appeared in USA TODAY in the article: “Governments tap into the power of  Twitter.” Tom Watson, a Labor Party, blogger said: There are some very bright, digitally enabled civil servants who unfortunately have to write these documents for their bosses. . . who still get their secretaries to print off their e-mails so [...]

Four reasons for busy ministry folks to reconsider Twitter

People in ministry are busy people. We have work to do. Ministries to run; people needing us and more to fill our days than there are hours in the day. The last thing we need is some new social networking something after we’ve been Linkedin and Facebooked and whatever else somebody said we had to [...]