Christian Social Networks and Private Community Sites

Mar 20, 09 Christian Social Networks and Private Community Sites

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Websites, Ekklesia, Monk Dev

As we’ve begun to look at numerous Christian Social Networks and Private Community Sites there is one test that easily distinguishes two paths that make a large difference in whether a Christian should use them: Does the Social Network focus on the Community over the Cause? Let me give two private Community Network...

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Triperspectival Leadership Diagram

Mar 19, 09 Triperspectival Leadership Diagram

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Leadership, Triperspectivalism

Leon Chingcuangco distilled David & my talks at Vintage 21 down to a chart “Triperspectival Leadership – Fulfilling the Offices of Christ“. In it the offices of Prophet, Priest and King are contrasted to examine Characteristics, Positive Tendencies, Negative Tendencies, Eventual Outworking, Errors of...

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Top 10 Church Website Features/Activities

Mar 18, 09 Top 10 Church Website Features/Activities

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Websites

What do people say are the most important features/activities they would like to engage on a church website? So far in our survey of 100 church websites these are what people are saying they want to: (out of 23 activities on the Use of Church Websites by Attendees survey) Highest Rated 1. Find service information (times,...

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Online Conversions

Mar 10, 09 Online Conversions

Posted by D. Goodmanson in General Technology, Monk Dev

Lately I’ve been in a couple conversations regarding online conversions. Are they happening? Yes and by the millions according to sites like GodRev (see Joy in Heaven). Using GodRev as the example, they take people through a process of Knowing God where visitors go through a multimedia rich 7-step engagement towards a...

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Developing a Personal Social Media Strategy: Blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter…who am I?

Mar 06, 09 Developing a Personal Social Media Strategy:  Blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter…who am I?

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Culture

How many social networks and web 2.0 apps can a person use? What do you do with each of these? I read an article recently about a phenomenon where people who had 100′s of friends on Facebook were committing “Facebook Suicide“. Some ‘killed their virtual self’ because of their loss of privacy and...

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New Blog Design & Updgrade of WordPress

Mar 05, 09 New Blog Design & Updgrade of WordPress

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology

I just re-launched Goodmanson.com with a new WordPress theme. I like that it’s fairly clean and simple. I still need to do a bit of tweaking (such as add thumbnails to more posts) but hope you like it. In the process I also upgraded to 2.7.1 from 2.5. Come on over and see the new...

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The Truth about Church Websites and Effective Online Outreach

Thank you for all who participated in today’s webinar, nearly 80 people signed-up for it. For those who missed it, here was the description of the webinar: We have all heard about the importance of a church website, the craze of social networking and the need for pastors to blog. But how effective are these strategies...

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