Church Websites

Website Wisdom
by Drew Goodmanson|02 November 2009|Church Technology, Church Websites, Ekklesia, Monk Dev
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...
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Story – Churches and Social Media breakout
by Drew Goodmanson|31 October 2009|Church Technology, Church Websites, Ekklesia
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...
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The Shape of the Future – Online Ministry
by Drew Goodmanson|15 September 2009|Church Websites, Ekklesia, Ministry Technology, Monk Dev
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...
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Christian Computing Magazine – Church Web Strategy
by Drew Goodmanson|04 September 2009|Church Technology, Church Websites
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...
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Internet Presence Management
by Drew Goodmanson|07 July 2009|Church Technology, Church Websites, Ekklesia
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...
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Cobblestone Community Network Goes Live
by Drew Goodmanson|07 July 2009|Church Technology, Church Websites, Monk Dev
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...
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Church Website Guide
by Drew Goodmanson|23 June 2009|Church Technology, Church Websites
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...
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Church Web Strategy Coop Update
by Drew Goodmanson|16 June 2009|Church Technology, Church Websites
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...
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Church Website Cooperative Project
by Drew Goodmanson|02 June 2009|Church Technology, Church Websites, Ekklesia
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...
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Cobblestone Community Network BETA Release
by Drew Goodmanson|19 May 2009|Church Technology, Church Websites, Ekklesia, Monk Dev
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...
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