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 70,000 members combined,...
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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… then it went home… then to...
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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 thinkers such...
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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 OVERVIEW: Technology is...
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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. ‚ÄúIf no one visits your award-winning new website does it really exist?‚Äù may be...
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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? What are they doing? Where...
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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. eg....
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A conference for church leaders that love using media, technology, and the internet to be more effective in sharing God’s story. Why you should go * To discover new forms of media * To be inspired to use media in new ways * To learn how to create original forms of media * To move beyond what‚Äôs been done and...
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Denver Seminary sponsored a webinar for their alumni network where I presented on the Future of the Church Online. Here is a brief description: 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 really in gathering people, creating...
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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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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.
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