Should the Church engage online and in Social Media?
Absolutely.
There is no question about it and, for the most part, everyone is in agreement with this.
But in terms of “Social Media Ministry” the Church apparently struggles.
Why?
Because the Church, generally speaking, still operates in a system that is defined by “traditional” media. Perhaps a change is [...]

Monk Development has completed their two rounds of research in regards to Social & Community Networks + Church Websites & Usage and are now offering 2 Webinar to share the results:
The Truth about Church Websites and Effective Online Outreach
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 10:00 AM

Beyond the Web 2.0 Noise: How to use the Internet to Disciple [...]

What a nice deal. Imagine Fellowship, who’s been using Twitter as an integral part of their strategy for both during Sunday Worship and during the week, got a nice plug from Mashable in regards to their Twitter use.
Hope it builds them up big time!
Spending a few minutes on their site was encouraging though, and I’d [...]

In the last post I expounded on “10 Reasons Why Your Church Needs to be Multi-Author.” Perhaps you already agree and are now looking for “those” bloggers.
Here are some thoughts about the characteristics that I would suggest identifying in them potential candidate:
1. Already a Blogger – Biggest mistake for a ministry or church to make [...]

I’ve been asked a number of times about how to develop and maintain effective content for church blogs.
Although there’s a number of very simple and pragmatic strategies that can get a ministry started they all exist in light of the “multi-authoring” strategy.
What I am suggesting is that if it is possible the ministry or church [...]

Re-reading some Godin-gold this morning had me pass by this particular piece that made me stop and do some serious thinking about what I write things in the online space.
Godin says:
The neat thing about the online world is that you are judged almost entirely by your actions, usually based on just your fingers.
Although this might [...]

My brother and good friend did it. He shut the thing down.
Ragamuffinsoul.com has closed shop. For how long? Who knows. But it’s the right move. It’s the right thing to do. And when he’s ready or when the Spirit confirms that it’s the right time to return, he’ll be back.
At ChurchCrunch we cover a lot [...]

Just kidding.
Wouldn’t it be fun to create a physical magazine like CollideMagazine and become one of their competitors?
Perhaps we should do that here at ChurchCrunch, especially since we’re bleeding into traditional print media!
Yeah. Right.
Magazines are going the way of the dinosaur, or John Donne perhaps (Not Collide though…!).
But the point of this extremely useless blog [...]

I’m constantly tweaking and changing the back end code to streamline the blog and make it as fast as possible. In addition, I have a nasty habit of redesigning “stuff” without any real need.
I’m getting better at it though.
You may have noticed a number of substantial changes that have occured on ChurchCrunch.com. I’ll list them [...]

Many of you probably already know who Cynthia Ware is, and if you don’t, well, now you know!
She’s been “around” for a while and it’s always been a pleasure to read her blog and some of the stuff that she finds around the interwebs.
I’ve recently had the pleasure of sitting down with her to help [...]