Church Site Design Tool February 20, 2007
Your church website has enormous potential as part of your outreach strategy to reach into your community. However, not all churches understand how to design a site that will do this effectively. This self-assessment questionnaire can help you assess your site, and find new ideas or areas that could perhaps be modified.
Take the Church Website Assessment Questionnaire
Are you passionate about church technology? February 15, 2007
ChurchBIT is a google group centered around what’s next in church web applications and internet technology. If this is something you are actively involved in and passionate about, apply to join ChurchBIT and join in the conversation.
Church Dashboard October 11, 2006
Church Dashboard is creating one page that church administrators, pastors or other leaders can view multiple to look at their backend systems, membership reports, content management system, financial reports and any other reporting system that integrates into ChurchDashboard.com. The system will be similiar to Google Personalized Homepage where users can build the reports they would like to see.
The system will allow vendors (Content Management Companies, Church Management Systems, Financial Systems and others) provide secure feeds and eventually editing capability from one login environment. This is a great idea and if you are a Web 2.0 company, something you should look to get involved in. There are already a number of companies signed-up to participate.
MeetFish - Another Christian answer to MySpace October 6, 2006
MeetFish is set to launch. A lot of money and development hours have gone into this site, it will be good to see what they have come up with. The even have a viral marketing play with the use of ‘creative videos’ to create a buzz for the launch.
What is MEETfish?
MEETfish is a place for people to share life. Here you can post photos, share your journal and explore truth with friends and family. The ocean can be a scary place, so MEETfish is designed to be a protected harbor where members can meet and interact without fear.
Building Church 2.0 Web Applications? October 1, 2006
These are the top 10 things auinteractive learned from attending the Future of Web Apps Conference 2006 in San Francisco earlier this month. The summit was hosted by Carson Systems and included speakers like Kevin Rose, Mike Arrington, Mike Davidson, and more. It’s a condensed and aggregated summary of points covered by different speakers throughout the conference that I found most useful.
10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website
[also read SonSpring’s Gospelcon Internet Ministry Recap.]
“The list” of Christian social networks September 27, 2006
it was bound to happen. With the rise of MySpace & Friendster amongst others, Christians have responded with their own social networks. Here are a few:
Social networks using PHPFOX:
- yourchristianspace.com
- christianspace360.com/
- coolteens4christ.com/
- jcfaith.com
- christunion.com
- inchristnet.com
Social networks using Alstrasoft E-friends:
Other Christian Social networks:
- holypal.com
- praize.com
- oaktreeidea.org
- mypraize.com
- battlecry.com
- dittytalk.com
- christianster.com
- Missionaries.in
- crossconnector.com
- people2pray.com
- ministryhome.org
- youthroots.com
- 5loaves.net
- ChristiansUK.com
- faithbuddies.com
- Connectourpeople.com
- myflock.com
- cmatch.com
- spirittag.com
- swordwalk.com
- churchcircle.org
- missionster.net
- ldscircle.org (Mormon)
- churchster.org
- meetfish.com
List of Web 2.0 Apps and the church September 19, 2006
Here is a semi-definitive list of web 2.0 applications for churches
MyChurchEvents
MyChurchEvents allows churches to organize online calendars for parishioners (only $60/yr). My Church Events makes it easy for you to plan and organize your activities weeks, months — even years — in advance.
Oaktreeidea : Creative Christian Social Network
Oaktreeidea is not your average online social community. If you want to make a real difference in the world, then our site is for you. We have built the site for the innovators, the out-of-box thinkers, the emerging churches, the creative people and those living life with purpose, passion and meaning.
Use our site to: meet others, inspire, collaborate, to reach out, make a positive impact in your community, introduce your ministry to the world, to show God’s love, to give hope to others, and to promote any other positive world changing endeavor you may have.
People2Pray
People2Pray is a web-based application for managing and sharing prayer requests.
Organize. Store and categorize your prayer requests online, access them from any Web browser.
Share. Allow friends and communities access to view your requests, leave comments, and be notified when your requests are updated.
Remember. Store old request in the archive and later reflect on how God has worked in your life.
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