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Church Web Optimizer

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, 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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Church Websites, Ekklesia and Monk Dev on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments

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...

Churches: Using the Internet to be on Mission, Disciple and Create Community

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Ekklesia and Monk Dev on 05 1st, 2009 | 2 Comments

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...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Monk Dev on 04 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Thank you for those who attended my session at CLA ‘09 on Leading Web Development. If you wanted and have not received an email with a pdf, please contact me. A lot of the information was in the session audio, CLA should have this or I’d be happy to connect with someone at your organization...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Websites, Ekklesia and Monk Dev on 03 20th, 2009 | 8 Comments

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...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in General Technology and Monk Dev on 03 10th, 2009 | 4 Comments

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...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church Technology, Ekklesia and Monk Dev on 02 23rd, 2009 | 10 Comments

Any help you can lend out there but DataFizz is taking credit for this design of Viviana Rodríguez Amoblamientos SA. It is a direct rip of Denver Seminary built by Monk and designed by Designwise Studios. They’re even using the same css file names (monkcms.css).

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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.