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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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?
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.
Do you have a favorite WordPress Theme for a blog that aggregates feeds from other blogs?
google \”one news wordpress theme\”
ooohhh… very cool.
Guilty pleasure TV Show… GO!
I am going to answer this question even though I am not John.
I did a post on this the other day (friday).
I went with a baby story on TLC, I am a sucker for those shows.
http://thoughtsaboutnothing.com/embarrasing-tv/
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.'
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?
I'd take a look at wordpress honestly. it's great! it's simple to learn.
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.
cool! let me know how I can help.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ah. yeah. well, it's all good…!
some people are called to bridge the gaps between misunderstandings and culture. i'm not that guy.