Effective Church Communications
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Words or images, what works best to communicate our church message?
Here are some blogs that expand on the topic in the video:
We’ve all heard the phrase, "a picture is worth a thousand words"– a phrase which I consider one of the most meaningless and destructive phrases to meaningful communication ever coined. That is because without words, the proper response to that statement is, "which thousand?" [Read more...]
This is one of my favorite image editing programs--much easier to use than Photoshop and best of all FREE! Even though it is very easy to use, it is extremely powerful and lots of fun to play around with. It doesn't get a lot of PR, (maybe because it is free), but it is a program that I think every church should have a copy of.
Below is the video on how to get it--here is a link to a series of videos I did that are on YouTube that show you how to use it: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6709E3C376551C36
On this video I demonstrate how to download it. The link for the download is: http://download.cnet.com/Paint-NET/3000-2192_4-10338146.html
We've all heard the phrase, "a picture is worth a thousand words"-- a phrase which I consider one of the most meaningless and destructive phrases to meaningful communication ever coined. That is because without words, the proper response to that statement is, "which thousand?"
I just posted a blog that discusses the importance of carefully crafted words in our church communication.
Here I want to answer the question: does that mean we can't use images?
Following the excerpt below from what's written in the blog, I want to illustrate what I mean by the feedback loop of meaning between images and words. [Read more...]
We might like how a color looks in an illustration, but the same color that might make a design appealing, might also make the message unreadable if we use that color in text. This short video will give you tips on how to use color in the text of your communications. The text is the most important part of any communication because that is the primary carrier of your message. It doesn't matter how pretty or inspiring an illustration is if people don't come to the event or learn what you want them to. [Read more...]
