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Reshaping Global Dialogues: Locally Locally ??
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Reshaping Global Dialogues:
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Why Do You Think Your Church Should Have A Web Page?
Where doYou Start?
YOU ARE THE EXPERTS!
Explore: Likes and Dislikes
• Navigation• Graphic Design• Writing• Impact• Appeal• Who does it
Speak to?….?
www.stpatsnorwich.org
www.hillschurch.org
REALITY CHECK
What are your Church priorities?EvangelismMinistryEducationWorship
How Much Will It Cost?
If a web page is a priority – Then consider this:If you have less money to spend you will have to
invest more time in order to have a successful web presence or …..
Web presence can be had for minimum dollars but you will have to invest lots of people time to do it.
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If Web Page Is A Priority?
Find an Expert
Become an Expert
or maybe….. A little bit of both.
Learn From Each Other
Local schoolsOn-line tutorialsWritersGraphic artistsComputer programmersAsk those who have done it
Develop A Plan
Traditional Web Design and Presence
Social Networks
Social Media
500 million active users on Facebook……300 million readers on Blogger sites….136 million on YouTube….65 million “Tweets” a day on Twitter…..
January 22, 2011, the 10 billionth app was downloaded from Apple App Store
Social Media…
…don’t need to be website savvy to publish new information.
…are interactive. You can respond, discuss and collaborate.…can be used to link to your
church’s website.…are free, easy to use, and accessible to
anyone with internet access.
Started in collegeNow; multigenerationalFastest growing users are 55+ generation
Blogging
http://pilgrimsuccmg.blogspot.com/2011/03/welcome-to-lent.html
http://unioncommunitychurchucc.blogspot.com/
Simple to use for publishing sermons, newsletters, links, and can be use to have conversations on any subject.
YouTube
Create a video page for your websiteYouTube videos can be copied on any page
of your website.
Video camcorders are cheap, but most of us have a image capture device in our pocket.
http://www.youtube.com/user/zionuccarendtsville
Are short messages: maximum 140 characters.
Ideal for brief announcements, reminders.Can be posted on website and blogs. Easy way to publish notices and
prayer requests.Twitter.com/stillspeaking
Free Tools
Twitter for announcementsYouTube for free video hosting
Flickr for free photo hostingGoogle Docs for free document hosting
Google for free events calendars
All can be posted on and linked from your website.
Integrate
Most social media provide code so you can copy and paste into any page on your website. Use this to display videos on YouTube, display “tweets” from your Twitter page, create photo stories in Flickr, and take advantage of free things like the Google Calendar.
Facebook’s has “Social Plug-ins” that allow you to link to you website:
developers.facebook.com/plugins
Don’t forget EmailIF your congregation members have email then
use it to drive traffic to websites, to publish news and news letters. Copy and paste inspirational and motivational articles and pass them on.
For More Information:
Special thanks to Andy Lang ([email protected]) for permission to use a lot of these ideas and concepts.
For a copy of this presentation is available on
www.slideshare.net or you can e-mail me at
[email protected] or [email protected]
and I will forward it to you.
