Is Online Community real Community? Questions about the Virtual Church
Lately this question seems to be popping up more and more so I thought I’d post some initial thoughts. For example, while at the Echo Media Conference I have met several ‘Internet Campus Pastors’. Including a church planter who has planted an online (only) church. In a question I...
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Facebook Killed the Church...
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:
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Best Practices for Online Mini...
What are the best tools for ministries to create impact online?
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How do leading ministries manage their web effort?
What emerging technologies are ministry leaders preparing for?
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Gospel Community Mission - GCM...
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...
Church Plant Website...
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,...
Church Web Optimizer...
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...
Church iPhone and Mobile Phone...
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...
GCA Church Planting Conference...
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:...
atechagoraphobia - the fear of...
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...
The World: Media & Cultur...
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,...
State of Ministry Online...
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...
Website Wisdom...
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...
Story - Churches and Social Me...
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...
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San Diego A29 Bootcamp Sessions
The main session videos from the San Diego A29 Bootcamp, Influence: Multiplying Leaders on Mission for the Gospel are up!
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Facebook Killed the Church
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:
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Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and is co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an Internet strategy and development company. Monk created Ekklesia 360 which is used by thousands of churches and ministries. Drew often speaks at conferences and has written for several national publications about how churches/ministries can use the Internet. Goodmanson.com is recognized as one of the Top Church Blogs. Kaleo Church is a missional community, multi-site church planting movement in San Diego, CA. More about Drew Goodmanson.
