Church Plant Website
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...
Church Web Optimizer
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...
Church iPhone and Mobile Phone Websites
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...
Website Wisdom
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...
Christian Computing Magazine - Church Web Strategy
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...
Internet Presence Management
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...
Cobblestone Community Network Goes Live
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites and Monk Dev on 07 7th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Cobblestone was created to help your community be the church. Cobblestone is designed to encourage behaviors that are important for the body of the local church. Learn how Cobblestone can assist you with objectives such as:
Helping People find opportunities to Serve
Connecting People into Community
Creating...
Church Website Guide
If you have been following the Church Web Strategy Cooperative you are aware that we have been involved in a market research project for church websites. The research staff at ChurchWebsiteGuide.com has been working feverishly for four months on cutting-edge market research that seeks to answer the...
Church Web Strategy Coop Update
Thank you for those who are interested in participating in the Church Web Cooperative.
We have been working feverishly for four months of cutting-edge research that seeks to answer the question “What are churches doing on the Internet right now that are best practices for effective online ministry?”...
Church Website Cooperative Project
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites and Ekklesia on 06 2nd, 2009 | 4 Comments
Kaleo Church along with several other churches plan on cooperating and implementing a new church web strategy. This strategy is influenced from a study that examined the analytics of 50+ church websites. In this research there were answers to questions such as: Why do people come to a church website?...
Cobblestone Community Network BETA Release
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites, Ekklesia and Monk Dev on 05 19th, 2009 | 4 Comments
Our team at Monk Development has been hard at work and now we finally have the BETA release of Cobblestone. Today four organizations are on the system with more to come. Here are a few of the screenshots to whet your appetite:
Grace Login page. Cobblestone can be pointed to a subdomain of your site....
Christian Web Conference
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites and Monk Dev on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments
The Christian Web Conference is designed to equip individuals with the vision, knowledge, and relationships that are necessary in order to be thoughtful practitioners and consumers of developing web technologies. Expect GREAT conversations from numerous LEADING THINKERS who will help shape not necessary...
Cultivate | Where Culture, Innovation and Communication Connect
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites and Monk Dev on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Save the date of October 27th for the Cultivate Conference @ Park Community Church in Chicago [just one day and proceeding the STORY conference]. Cultivate is collective wisdom. It brings ministry and marketplace leaders to the table and asks them to leave their formal presentations at home. Cultivate...
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.
