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Saturday, August 11th, 2007LifeChurch.tv continues to lead innovations in technology. This week they rolled out their application on FaceBook Church you’ll have to join FaceBook to see it. FaceBook allows open source programming for applications and LifeChurch.tv has stepped out with a great application in my opinion. So far, the application promotes the latest sermon series and allows you […]
Name Dropping: Why I think Oklahoma is the Epicenter of the Church Marketing Conversation
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Today is my birthday! This is the big 44, or as my wife says, the “last birthday” before I am “over the hill.” Anyway, I have a fun day planned.
I am going to drive to Tulsa (the “Paris of Oklahoma“) with my Rockin’ Cool friend Cory Miller from ChurchCommunicationsPro.com (who is mentioned in Penelope Trunk’s blog recently for […]
Curt Cavnar Talks Video Production
Friday, August 3rd, 2007We continue talking to Curt Cavnar about getting video savvy. Increasingly using video technology is becoming a part of everyday ministry. Curt will be leading a video boot camp at MinistryCOM in Nashville, September 13-14th.
Read more on the MinistryCOM blog
Become a Video Whiz with Curt Cavnar at MinistryCOM 2007 in Nashville
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Even if you don’t have video production in your job description in your role as communication leader in your church, you still need to know the basics of video. Chances are you will have to use video in some way in your outreach efforts or to back up internal communication needs. You need to know […]
Enquiring Minds Want to Know! Cory Miller interviews MMC
Monday, July 30th, 2007My good friend and supremo blog-meister Cory Miller who created ChurchCommunicationsPro.com has just interviewed me on his blog. Cory is a very sharp guy (I even cast him a commercial I worked on recently). He’s someone you need to know about if you are serious about improving your communication in ministry.
He also has developed some really cool tools, including an offer to help you get […]
Get to Know Advertising Guru Ginger Sinsabaugh MacDonald
Monday, July 30th, 2007Ginger Sinsabaugh MacDonald is a bi-vocational minister who also is the “Top Cookie” over at TastyFaith.com. Ginger splits her time in Chicago between advertising and urban youth ministry. She has insights into communication strategy and a grasp of what makes people tick few have. You can read her blog SpitBucket (Incidently, you have to read […]
Seacoast Church Communications Leader Shawn Wood
Friday, July 27th, 2007Shawn Wood is the Experiences Pastor for Seacoast Church, a multi-site church with 11 campuses (25 weekend experiences) in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. Through leading a team of designers, videographers, communications professionals and very talented people, Shawn helps campuses create compelling experiences in the areas of weekend, web and word-of-mouth to help people […]
Shawn Wood: Finding Your Ministry’s Marketing Voice
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007Projecting a consistent brand image of your ministry in the community you serve is the special challenge given to the church communication director. Shawn Wood, Creative Communication Pastor for Seacoast Church in Mount Pleasant, SC, has a few ideas about keeping your church on message to share in his general session presentation at MinistryCOM in […]
Everybody Doesn’t Hate Kem Meyer (Part Two)
Friday, July 20th, 2007We continue our conversation with Kem Meyer Communication Director for Granger Community Church and general session speaker at MinistryCOM 2007 in Nashville, September 13-14. Where her topic will be “Everybody Doesn’t Hate You, It Just Seems Like It”.
You had experience in marketing before you began working at Granger, what were you doing back then?
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Kem Meyer, a Communication Director You’ll Love Not Hating…
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Granger Church Communication Director, Kem Meyer is a very busy lady. Recently, her church was voted one of the top 10 “Most Influential Churches in America of 2007” by the Church Report. She is known for work that is as clean and uncluttered as her blog. She’s also a fun speaker to listen to. Kem […]
How to Get Buzz Going about Your Ministry
Monday, July 16th, 2007The topic of Word-of-Mouth Marketing (WOMM) promotion is very popular discussion topic these days in ministry marketing circles. I think it is great that many leaders in ministry are now showing interest in this important subject.
Word-of-Mouth really is the best form of advertising. If your church is motivating and inspiring people to talk to their […]
Part Two of the MinistryCOM Interview with Brad Abare
Friday, July 13th, 2007We continue our two-part interview with church marketing expert Brad Abare. Brad is the assistant vice president and director of communications for the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, founder of the Center for Church Communication, and the president of Personality, a cause marketing agency that champions people causes. In 2004 Brad started ChurchMarketingSucks.com, a […]
Interview with Church Marketing Guru Brad Abare
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007This year at MinistryCOM church marketing guru Brad Abare will take on the medium/message/methods discussion in his general session presentation, “A Matter of Message”. Brad says, “…the methods continue to compete with the message for what really matters.” We asked him a few questions about what he means by that and how it all began […]
Building Trust through Crisis Communications: Interveiw with Gerald Baron
Saturday, July 7th, 2007This year at MinistryCOM 2007 in Nashville you will have the opportunity to learn from the best in the field of Christian communications. In most cases, your work in ministry communications will be helping get the word out about the good things your church is doing. But in our world where sin still pervades everything, […]
Multicultural Marketer Tracey Michae’l Lewis talks about Keeping it Real in Ministry Marketing
Friday, July 6th, 2007One of the greatest challenges in ministry communication today is learning how to relate more effectively in ministry across cultures. Today MinistryCOM interviews our Nashville breakout speaker Tracey Michae’l Lewis about her views on being more sensitive to and proactive in reaching and ministering to more diverse audiences. Tracey will be speaking Thursday Sept. 13 […]
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