Archive for April, 2007

Marketing Your Church

Apr 17th, 2007 by Tim | 1

Churches struggle with the whole area of publicity and communications. Church noticeboards, posters, newsheets and web sites are all areas where churches fail to communicate effectively in the modern world.
Here are a couple of books that might help you move your church into the 20th and maybe even the 21st century…

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Blogging Your Church with WordPress:– Managing images and photos

Apr 9th, 2007 by Tim | 2

If you intend to tell a story, pictures and images are essential. If you are announcing an upcoming event, use a picture from the last event. If you are sharing news, a single photo helps tell the story. Just one simple thumbnail in each post works well, like at White Oak. And then of course [...]

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Blogging Your Church with WordPress:– Tweaking a theme

Apr 3rd, 2007 by Tim | 14

This is the latest in a series on Blogging your church with WordPress. If you are following, then I’m jumping a few steps, but I have been getting a regular stream of requests from WP newbies about how to customize and edit my WordPress themes.
All themes are slightly different but the principles are the same. [...]

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Nominations for the coolest and worst church websites

Apr 2nd, 2007 by Tim | 10

(Image: Copyright Gospel Communications International, Inc - www.reverendfun.com)
I’m on the scrounge for examples of the coolest and not so cool church websites on the planet. The mega churches have fancy websites, a lot of which are not really that great, but my interest is in those churches who are sharing their story online well or [...]

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Living Open Source

Tim’s blog on anything from this week’s lectionary, to open source software like WordPress

Creative Commons License

Links

  • Church Marketing Lab (Flickr Group)
  • HelpTelly
  • Jamendo - (Creative Commons Music)
  • Lectionary Bible Studies
  • Lectionary Graphics (Flickr Group)
  • Liturgy - worship that works
  • LivingOS Blip.TV Channel
  • N T Wright Page
  • Re:Jesus
  • Rowan Williams
  • St Helens Baptist Church
  • TextWeek
  • Ultimate Guitar Tabs
  • Walter Brueggemann
  • WordPress
  • YouVersion