Comments on: weekend open thread: What Heals your Church Website?

By: schweizneuzug

schweizneuzug — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:53:56 +0000

Hi there,

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Wenn mir jemand aushelfen kann wÃ¼rde ich mich sehr freuen. Vielen Dank schan mal im Vorraus,

Gruss,
S.

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By: Peter Sullivan

Peter Sullivan — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:07:35 +0000

Just found this via a friend’s blog – “Twittering in Church, With the Pastor’s Encouragement” http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1895463,00.html?cnn=yes

By: Dean Peters

Dean Peters — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:18:46 +0000

Wow! Thanks all for such great comments!

It really helps me fine-tune an idea I have for a post on the topic of “what heals a church website?”

Thanks and keep’m coming!

By: Peter Sullivan

Peter Sullivan — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:57:08 +0000

@Mickey I think you’re right. For social networking, the best approach is for the church website to provide appropriate links (to a Facebook group, Twitter feed, Livejournal community or whatever) rather than try to re-invent Web 2.0 all by itself. As well as being practically easier, it also re-inforces the message that people’s church-based social-networking, like the rest their church experience, should be seen as part of their overall lives, rather than “a thing apart.”

On the other main theme of this discussion, it looks as if the general consensus here seems to be that most people finding your church’s website will be much more interested in whether the congregation have gold lamÃ© hearts than whether the website has gold lamÃ© crosses…

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:14:45 +0000

Martin Lloyd Jones the British preacher said, “if you give out bread, the hungry will come”. Too much is made of how the content is displayed. If you want to heal your church website, you need first to have good content. Of course, you do need to display the info well; I’m just trying to redress a balance.

I come to this site because I like the content, not because of twirly crosses or WordPress.

In my opinion good content should contain revelation not just a regurgitation of someone else’s information.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:53:05 +0000

lemon — Well said. I agree that content is ultimately the most important thing.

Peter Sullivan — I think that over time, group A will be using the church website and group B will be getting most of their information from other sources (Facebook, etc). Maybe.

A problem I see popping up more is churches that want to make their site “cool”, but don’t want to spend the time to build content. One local church has a blog on their site that hasn’t had a new post in more than three months (!), but they’re excited about getting a cool new design soon. Totally missing the point…

By: gene

gene — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:12:46 +0000

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glad you’re back!

for us, having gone from Web Studio 4.0 to Dreamweaver 8 to Dreamweaver CS3 to WordPress, i must say that wordpress helped heal our church website.

the twitter integration also helps for keeping people connected to our new pages.