Church Technology Review

Church Site Design Tool

admin — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:00:40 +0000

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

Google Base - Share your Sermons

admin — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:19:25 +0000

Google has launched Google Base and is targeting ‘religious writings’.

“Share your sermons, essays and other religious writing with Google users worldwide by uploading them for free to Google Base.”

Go to Google Base to upload sermons & learn how >

Are you passionate about church technology?

admin — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:50:36 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:55:36 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:44:26 +0000

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.

Fourthbook.com web-based Church Management Software

admin — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:38:30 +0000

Fourthbook.com is 100% web-based Church Management Software. It was designed specifically to meet the needs of church-plants and small to mid-size churches at an affordable price. Fourthbook.com was created by Rockfish Interactive and Kenny Tomlin (CEO & President) sent us a login to try the system. [Click on either image for larger Screenshot] Tomlin explains why he created Fourthbook:

Why Create Fourthbook.com?
As the Founding Pastor of a church plant, I began looking into solutions for managing a growing contact database. Churches have unique contact management requirements and traditional contact management tools were not flexible enough to meet my requirements. Additionally, I wanted to be able to send emails to my contacts, record financial giving, and run detailed reports.

After visiting with other church planters, I found most were using a combination of Microsoft Excel, Quicken, Microsoft Outlook, and possibly a web-based email tool to try and meet their needs. These multiple software applications don’t all work together, creating multiple contact databases. Additionally, using multiple desk-top applications makes it extremely difficult to delegate some tasks out to church members – something that church plants and small to mid-sized churches often need to do.

The backend is very sleek, with Flash charts an easy to use interface. As of today, Fourthbook handles Contact Management, Financial Recording, Email Management and Reports for these.

Building Church 2.0 Web Applications?

admin — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:50:40 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:45:23 +0000

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:

Social networks using Alstrasoft E-friends:

Other Christian Social networks:

HT: Joe Suh @ MyChurch.org

List of Web 2.0 Apps and the church

admin — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:27:29 +0000

Here is a semi-definitive list of web 2.0 applications for churches

Bible search

Blogging

About Life
Minor Prophet Bible Blogs
e-Church (down for total, complete redesign by Turtle Interactive)

Bookmarking

Sermon Cloud
Remarkable! (a product of Turtle Interactive)

Podcasting

Productivity

Cross Connector
People to Pray
Plaid (coming soon from Turtle Interactive)

Social networking

Content Management Systems

Ekklesia 360 Church CMS

Credit: Turtle Interactive

MyChurchEvents

admin — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:32:23 +0000

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.