recent posts
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 03 15th, 2010
A co-worker at MonkDev posted this article, How Facebook Killed the Church written by Richard Beck, Associate Professor and experimental psychologist at Abilene Christian University. Here are some brief thoughts on a couple of the points made:
Why...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 03 15th, 2010
What are the best tools for ministries to create impact online?
What impact does a ministry web site have on online giving?
How do leading ministries manage their web effort?
What emerging technologies are ministry leaders preparing for?
Through...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 02 11th, 2010
The increased conversation about ‘being missional’ is exciting. Recently over 2,000 church leaders gathered in Austin (Verge) to discuss missionality. In the tweets to follow, there still were several who are convinced they want to...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 02 9th, 2010
Monk Development has partnered with Park Community Church in Chicago to give an amazing website to a church planter.
If you are a church plant that needs to establish a solid web presence and don’t have the resources or finances to make it happen,...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 01 22nd, 2010
MonkDev is doing a soft-launch of Church Web Optimizer, what we hope is a powerful service to help local churches do ministry online. Church Website Optimization is the culmination of years worth of research into what makes an effective church web...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 01 11th, 2010
Ekklesia 360 (or if your site was designed by one of our 50 designer parters or resellers) offers an iPhone ready website for your chuch. More people have mobile phones than computers today and mobile web-ready phones are expected to grow by...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 01 8th, 2010
I’m going to be presenting two sessions with Timmy Brister at the GCA Church Planting Conference January 26-28th 2010 in Orlando. If you are a church planter, this is a highly valuable conference to attend.
Planting in a Post Christian World:...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 01 4th, 2010
Six years ago I tried to get a word in the dictionary and I want to continue to use it, as I see it as more and more a part of our future. In an always-on culture with technology a part of our every moment the idea of atechagoraphobia (at one point...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 12 24th, 2009
My latest sermon at Kaleo Church, The World: Media & Culture
C.J. Mahaney writes in the book Worldliness Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World.
Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world,...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 12 17th, 2009
The State of Ministry Online has launched a website. State of Ministry Online is a collection of studies, surveys and research to benefit how ministries do ministry online. These studies involve surveys, interviews, web analytics and other research...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 11 2nd, 2009
Your Church magazine, part of Christianity Today published an article I wrote, Website Wisdom - New research, cooperative reveal best practices for churches in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue. The article begins:
Research conducted earlier this year, which...
Posted by D. Goodmanson on 10 31st, 2009
Tim Schraeder did an excellent job capturing Cynthia Ware (http://thedigitalsanctuary.org/) and my session at the Story Chicago conference.
Social Media Pulse
What are churches current social media patterns?
We are living in a world people dreamed...