Church Technology - Goodmanson

Facebook Killed the Church

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology on 03 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments

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 didn’t Gen X leave the church while the Millennials...

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 conversations with ministry leaders, it is apparent that...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Websites on 02 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment

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, this is an opportunity for you to get a solid web...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites and Monk Dev on 01 22nd, 2010 | 5 Comments

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 strategy. Monk is the only company to base our website...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology and Church Websites on 01 11th, 2010 | No Comments

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 50% over the next two years. It will be increasingly...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites, Ekklesia and Monk Dev on 11 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

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 surveyed hundreds of churches representing more than...

Story - Churches and Social Media breakout

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites and Ekklesia on 10 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 of. There used to only be a computer at work…...

The Shape of the Future - Online Ministry

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Websites, Ekklesia, Ministry Technology and Monk Dev on 09 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Outcomes a quarterly magazine from the Christian Leadership Alliance just released their Fall 2009 issue highlighting Internet Ministry. I wrote an article entitled, The Shape of the Future - A four-part ministry Web strategy. The issue includes several articles you should consider reading by respected...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Culture, Faith and Monk Dev on 09 14th, 2009 | 22 Comments

Thank you for those who attended my Internet Strategy: What does the gospel have to do with Social Media? at CWC/09. In this session we discussed several of the trends that we need to think through with Christian distinction. I appreciated your participation, thanks Tim Challies, Cynthia Ware, Dave...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Ekklesia, General Technology, Ministry Technology and Monk Dev on 09 11th, 2009 | 3 Comments

The Christian Leadership Alliance has asked that I organize an Internet Ministry conference for CLA 2010 and beyond. This year it will be in San Diego, CA, on April 19-21, 2010. This year we have our schedule of speakers that will include numerous panel members from ministries around the world. SUMMIT...

Christian Computing Magazine - Church Web Strategy

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology and Church Websites on 09 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Christian Computing Magazine (CCMag) has helped to keep its readers informed on software, services and other areas of technology, pertaining to how it relates to the Christian community, the church and ministry since 1989. CCMag was THE first Christian magazine on the Internet. Today, it continues to...

Is Online Community real Community? Questions about the Virtual Church

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology and Featured Articles on 07 30th, 2009 | 25 Comments

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...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology on 07 28th, 2009 | 8 Comments

I want to encourage those Christians in the tech space to attend the Christian Web Conference. Where most conferences on technology are geared toward ‘how’, ‘what’, and ‘who’ this conference will ask more ‘why’ questions. As the conference main site states,...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites and Ekklesia on 07 7th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Monk Development has begun our shift from a Content Management provider to an Internet Presence Management company. What is the difference? Most Content Management Systems (CMS) focus on managing the content to publish to a client’s website. “If no one visits your award-winning new website...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites and Monk Dev on 07 7th, 2009 | 2 Comments

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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.