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Sunday Special QA No. 35

Posted by John Saddington on Nov 22, 2009

It’s that time again…! Sunday’s a good day to take it easy.

I’ve decided that on Sundays I’m not going to do any blogging except for a very simple post series called “The Sunday Special” where you get to ask me anything.

You can ask about me about web technology, Wordpress, blogging, what I ate for breakfast… whatever.

I can’t promise that I’ll answer all of your questions, but feel free to answer each other’s questions as well.

I’ll try to answer all the questions throughout the coming week.

Simple enough, right? Go.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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20 Responses to “Sunday Special QA No. 35”

  1. Nils Smith
    Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    We're launching a new "Internet Ministry" at our church and I'm curious to get advice on where to start and how to focus my time. I would love even some percentages on time and focus breakdown. Realistically we are going from using the internet only as a form of promotion/communication. Here are the avenues that I'm looking to begin to maximize: Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Live Video Feed, and YouTube. Any other suggestions/ideas?

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:05 pm

      I would spend the vast majority of time on your blog and landing page sites. then perhaps fb and twitter. establishing yourself and the landing page is critical.

      Reply
  2. WayneCordova
    Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    Do you have a favorite Wordpress Theme for a blog that aggregates feeds from other blogs?

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:04 pm

      google \”one news wordpress theme\”

      Reply
  3. WayneCordova
    Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    Guilty pleasure TV Show… GO!

    Reply
  4. dannyjbixby
    Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    If you could do a post on this during the week, I know it's been all a buzz this month, but I'm curious about your opinions on the Deadly Viper Character Assassins 'controversy.'

    Reply
  5. Gideon Addington
    Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    If you were to suggest 5 books on integrating a church and its web presence, social media and the church, and engaging young people on the internet what would they be?

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Monday, November 23, 2009 at 3:15 pm

      Wow. Hmm. I'd honestly spend time reading some of the secular books since I'm not sure there's much literature today that covers exactly what you're looking to do.

      i'd also read seth godin's stuff, chris brogan's stuff, some of guy kawasaki's stuff as well.

      Reply
    • dannyjbixby
      Monday, November 23, 2009 at 3:31 pm

      Anything that deals with integrating your business with social media is a good idea….as with most things, the church is 10 years behind the curve, so we'll start writing social media books around the time we have hoverboards.

      Just replace 'church' when you see 'business, brand, product' etc.

      Start with these: http://mashable.com/2009/11/13/social-media-book-...

      Subscribe to godin & brogan's blogs too.

      Reply
    • dannyjbixby
      Monday, November 23, 2009 at 3:31 pm

      Anything that deals with integrating your business with social media is a good idea….as with most things, the church is 10 years behind the curve, so we'll start writing social media books around the time we have hoverboards.

      Just replace 'church' when you see 'business, brand, product' etc.

      Start with these: http://mashable.com/2009/11/13/social-media-book-...

      Subscribe to godin & brogan's blogs too.

      Reply
  6. Andrew
    Monday, November 23, 2009 at 1:22 am

    When moving from a static website, to an interactive website for a church (which includes videos, audio sermons, and other features), what sort of CMS would you prefer to use? And would the choice depend upon the techsavy-ness of the content producers of the website?

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Monday, November 23, 2009 at 3:14 pm

      I'd take a look at wordpress honestly. it's great! it's simple to learn.

      Reply
      • Andrew
        Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:42 pm

        Thanks John, I was thinking WordPress based upon what I have read, and spoken to other people, but I've always thought of it more as a blog than a CMS. But I'd be happy to give your recommendation a go.

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        • human3rror
          Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:54 pm

          cool! let me know how I can help.

          Reply
  7. human3rror
    Monday, November 23, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    i think it was necessary to a degree but also handled, at times, poorly.lessons learned on both ends. I've stayed out of that stuff just for my own sake.

    Reply
    • dannyjbixby
      Monday, November 23, 2009 at 3:26 pm

      Fair enough. Your recent post where you mentioned you were "Korean….but not Korean-Korean" had some self-deprecating humor in it. So it made me wonder if you were offended by the whole thing or not.

      Reply
      • human3rror
        Monday, November 23, 2009 at 3:31 pm

        ah. yeah. well, it's all good…!

        some people are called to bridge the gaps between misunderstandings and culture. i'm not that guy.

        :)

        Reply

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