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The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators. 

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators.
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Snappa: The easiest way to create social media verses

9 January, 2019 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Share your faith Snappa graphic
What an encouragement something like this can be when it comes across our social media. Snappa is a super easy way to create them.

Images with verses on them that fill our screens and phones can be wonderful moments of encouragement and refreshment. If we want to create them to share with others, Snappa is a fantastic program to use because it is so easy to create them. Though there are many programs you can use to do this, I like Snappa because it has more flexibility in placement of images and texts.

In addition, you can very quickly resize images in Snappa to fit any social media or print graphics format you want. Following is a short video I did to show how easy this is to do.

One quick reminder, Effective Church Communications does not take any affiliate advertising—I'm telling you about this because I personally love and use it all the time.

More videos about Snappa, click on the link below the title

A video comparison of PicMonkey, Canva, and Snappa
https://wp.me/pDky9-8il

Snappa: Review and How-tos of a GREAT program to create social media graphics
https://wp.me/pDky9-8hw

Snappa: How to create a side-bar ad
https://wp.me/pDky9-8mB

 

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Snappa: Super quick and easy, how to create a side-bar ad with it

9 January, 2019 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Side bar ad example--read through the Bible Chronologically
This and every other sidebar ad you see on this site was created very quickly and easily in Snappa. The video here shows you how to do it.

Snappa has removed a huge source of frustration for me because I never seem to manage my creative time as well as I start the day hoping I will. I'll work hard on project (like the one for this sidebar ad on Reading through the Bible in Chronological Order), and after the work is done on the project I realize I need to create a graphic to tell people about what I'm doing.

I panic. But then I remember I have Snappa, so I take a deep breath and usually less than 5 minutes later I have a graphic—polished, done, and ready-to-use.

Below the short video shows you how to do it.

I can't recommend Snappa enough—even if you are better at time management than I am, it's a super quick and easy way to create any kind of digital graphic you need.

 

For more videos on Snappa, click on the links that follow the title:

A video comparison of PicMonkey, Canva, and Snappa
https://wp.me/pDky9-8il

Snappa: Review and How-tos of a GREAT program to create social media graphics
https://wp.me/pDky9-8hw

Snappa: The easiest way to create social media verses
https://wp.me/pDky9-8mw

 

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Pantone’s Color of the year–a vibrant, hopeful, lively Coral

6 January, 2019 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Pantone's Color of the year 2019
Pantone's Color of the year is a vibrant, beautiful coral--use and enjoy!

Well, this is different. After a murky green in 2017 and a vibrant, but somewhat depressing purple last year, Pantone's color of the year for 2019 is a vibrant, hopeful, and lively coral.

After the sad and contentious year, we've had it seems like the perfect color choice—somewhere between sunrise and sherbet. Here is a short video on it:

Pantone's color selections they say are done like this:

The Color of the Year selection process requires thoughtful consideration and trend analysis. To arrive at the selection each year, Pantone’s color experts at the Pantone Color Institute comb the world looking for new color influences. This can include the entertainment industry and films in production, traveling art collections and new artists, fashion, all areas of design, popular travel destinations, as well as new lifestyles, playstyles, and socio-economic conditions. Influences may also stem from new technologies, materials, textures, and effects that impact color, relevant social media platforms and even upcoming sporting events that capture worldwide attention.

Maybe. But maybe the committee or whoever this year just wanted to inject a bit of hope into the world.

Regardless of the reason—use the color!

It reminds me that Easter is coming, but even before then, use the color and put a bit of life and joy into your communications.

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A video comparison of PicMonkey, Canva, and Snappa

4 November, 2018 By Yvon Prehn 2 Comments

Comparison of PicMonkey, Canva, and Snappa
All three are great programs, this lets you see the strengths of each one.

 

After the recent overview/tutorial of Snappa, an Effective Church Communications member asked me how it compared to Canva and PicMonkey. That was such a good question and as I thought about it, I realized it wasn't something I could answer in a quick email and that the answer would be useful to many of you.

I like all three programs and use them all, but they are different in what they do best. Below I did a video review of all three. It is short and subjective and far from an exhaustive overview of any of them, but I trust it will help you see the differences. Below the video is a summary of the cost of each and a few additional comments.

Remember Effective Church Communications does not take any advertising or participate in any affiliate programs. You can CLICK HERE if you want to read more of our concerns about affiliate programs. On Pic Monkey (the only one I bothered to look up) they give affiliates 30% of what you pay. I would much rather they had a lower rate than participating in a system that can distort reviews of the product. But regardless of what others do, we will not be part of the affiliate kudzu that infects the web. You can read our reviews knowing they have no secondary agenda. [Read more...]

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Snappa: Review and How-tos of a GREAT program to create social media graphics

23 October, 2018 By Yvon Prehn 2 Comments

Snappa is a great program for the fastest, easiest ways to make social media and online graphics! I've used it for some time (in fact, all the graphics you see in the sidebars of this website were created with it), but I like to use something for a while before I recommend it because I'm sure that many of you have had the same frustration I have where someone does this raving recommendation of a program and with great excitement you go to it and after paying for it realize it is a piece of junk and not only that you signed up for something that keeps wanting you to upgrade or buy more junk from them. That won't happen here as we don't take any advertising or affiliate payments (often the motivation for rave reviews).

Below is my little overview of it.

Here are some additional videos done about Snappa, just click the link below them to go to them.

A video comparison of PicMonkey, Canva, and Snappa
https://wp.me/pDky9-8il

Snappa: The easiest way to create social media verses
https://wp.me/pDky9-8mw

Snappa: How to create a side-bar ad
https://wp.me/pDky9-8mB

 

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Filed Under: Design, Social Media Tagged With: church social media, Snappa how to, Snappa Review, Social media image creation

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