{"id":704,"date":"2007-02-27T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T22:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/2007-02\/27\/ideas-for-church-websites-and-using-technology-on-mission\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T22:57:31","slug":"ideas-for-church-websites-and-using-technology-on-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/church\/ideas-for-church-websites-and-using-technology-on-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas for Church Websites and using Technology on Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

ChurchBIT<\/a> (a group of people who are involved in and passionate about how to use technology for the church)  Here are some suggestions from discussions about ways to enhance a church website.<\/p>\n

(1) Use stories<\/strong> in your community.  Eg. Watermark Testimonies<\/a><\/p>\n

(2) Allow people to participate<\/strong> in 'journal- like' responsive writing.  Eg. a church 'reading through the Bible' plan (http:\/\/www.jointhejourney.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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The Journey" is a church-wide bible reading plan. Each day everyone who has joined the journey gets an email with a devotional that has been written by a member of the church. This has been going for about 3 years and I have seen a lot of fruit from this approach. This approach has fostered great discussion within our Body.  With everyone reading the same passage everyday, there have been several opportunities for questions\/difference perspectives. I like the continuity that this approach provides.I also think that the daily  emails serve us a eAccountabilityPartner reminding you to get in the Word that day. Our church has a bi-monthly meeting that allows people to ask questions\/process what they are reading in the "Journey."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(3) Find the right s<\/strong>ocial networking<\/strong> sites to participate in. Eg. The Rock ISU<\/a><\/p>\n

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Our ministry (rockisu.com<\/a> ) is focused primarily on college students at Iowa State University.  We have a reputation for "out advertising Coca-cola" as far as flyers, etc, but we rarely see visitors show up simply because they saw a flyer.  Flyers tend to act as a name-recognition driver (ask most people around our campus of 28,000, and they have heard of the Rock, even though our average attendance is only "130-give-or-take-20"), and event reminder for most people. <\/p>\n

However, advertising events using Facebook, there have been several times we've seen folks with no other connection come to check The Rock out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the next couple of weeks, I am going to lead an advertising charge using Facebook, and attempt to track results by measuring average attendance over a couple of weeks and comparing it with pre-advertising numbers.  I'm also going to try to randomly sample new folks to get an idea of how they heard about the event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Join ChurchBit<\/a> to participate in these discussions.   Members include the founders of Church Marketing Sucks<\/a> , Godbit<\/a>, MyChurch<\/a> Blog Ministry<\/a>, Beta Church<\/a>, Strategic Digital Outreach<\/a>, Ekklesia 360<\/a>, and the list goes on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ChurchBIT (a group of people who are involved in and passionate about how to use technology for the church)  Here are some suggestions from discussions about ways to enhance a church website. (1) Use stories in your community.  Eg. Watermark Testimonies (2) Allow people to participate in 'journal- like' responsive writing.  Eg. a church 'reading through the Bible' plan (http:\/\/www.jointhejourney.com\/). The Journey" is a church-wide bible reading plan. Each day everyone who has joined the journey gets an email with a devotional that has been written by a member of the church. This has been going for about 3 years and I have seen a lot of fruit from this approach. This approach has fostered great discussion within our Body.  With everyone reading the same passage everyday, there have been several opportunities for questions\/difference perspectives. I like the continuity that this approach provides.I also think that the daily  emails serve us a eAccountabilityPartner reminding you to get in the Word that day. Our church has a bi-monthly meeting that allows people to ask questions\/process what they are reading in the "Journey." (3) Find the right social networking sites to participate in. Eg. The Rock ISU Our ministry (rockisu.com ) is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}