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A Look at ChurchCrunch Stats: Site Usage, Visits, PVs


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To the left is the analytics from December 31st, 2008 to today, December 31st, 2009. When I look at these numbers I'm honestly a bit disappointed, for a number of reasons. The first and biggest is that I had as one of my goals for 2009 the goal of breaking one million pageviews. As you can see, I didn't even get half. I severely underestimated the growth pattern that I had hoped to accomplish and I have already begun and calculated the reasons why. The most significant "issue," if you want ... Read More

5 Reasons Why Your Ministry Should Use Dropbox


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I'll have to admit: I'm a recent convert to the power of Dropbox, but if you know anything about me you know that once I commit, I commit. And, that means that it's extremely effective at what I need it to do. In other words, it's just a darn good application or service. Dropbox has proven it's worth (so far), and for the uninitiated, Dropbox is essentially a data backup, storage, and sharing service that is web based. It's free (to start) and compatible with Windows, Mac, or Linux machines. ... Read More

Did Jesus Have an Affiliate Program? Do You?


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Haha. This cartoon is hilarious. But, if you start thinking about it critically you actually might find that... ... Ok, we'll stop right there. We've been having some great discussions lately (and more to come!) about monetizing blogs, making money, revealing stats, etc. for us in the evangelical and christian space. My question is two-fold: Do you/Have you used affiliate programs? If so, what's your "success" been like? I've used a number of affiliate programs and am currently experimenting ... Read More

A Look at ChurchCrunch Stats: Google Analytics Graph 2009


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As you can, the above is a look at my traffic in graph form from Google Analytics in 2009. There have been a number of significant spikes, the two most obvious being "If God Text Messaged the 10 Commandments" and "The 10 Commandments of Twitter." If you'd like to know my thoughts about the latter one in particular and how it helped me generate tons of traffic, you can check this post-mortem post here. What this doesn't show visually (very well, at least) is the general increase of traffic over ... Read More

Understanding the Definition of ‘Technology’


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The term "technology" can be tough to define. John Dyer posted 4 definitions to "technology" as they have (classically?) been understood. I've re-posted them here (and hit the "enter" key a bit more often for readability...): (And yes, I freaking love that animated .gif over on the right side. I think it perfectly highlights this topic. I heart the interwebs). 1. Technology as Hardware This is the basic level that most of us mean when we use the word “technology.” As a piece of hardware (or ... Read More

How Is Your Blog Making Money (and How Much)?


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Love FoxTrot. I've been doing a lot of thinking about the relationship between transparency and money making and how a number of professional bloggers handle this relationship. I've seen a number of successful secular bloggers that either consistently share how they are making money and/or even how much they are making monthly and annually. Perhaps by doing so they are gaining more trust with their audience and really "practicing what they preach" in terms of authenticity, transparency, and ... Read More

Ministry Web Technology Goals for 2010?


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We've heard your Personal Web Goals for 2010... what about your ministry web technology goals? Are you guys going to redesign? Are you going to rethink your strategy? Is this a year of hiring the right people? Are you going to have to "shake things up?" What are you guys shooting for this coming year? [Image from Cindy] ... Read More

ChurchCrunch’s Top 10 Posts of 2009


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Looking through your analytics and metrics for the past year should be something you're actively doing either this week or early in 2010. You can learn a lot from your traffic, trust me. Over the next few days I'll be showcasing some of the traffic patterns and behind-the-scenes look at 2009 (hopefully if I've got the time between my studies...). So, to start, here are the top 10 posts of 2009: If God text Messaged the 10 Commandments The 10 Commandments of Twitter Community Appreciation: ... Read More

Neat Little jQuery Translation Tool: Sunday Morning


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I found this the other day and I thought it was a fantastic use of jQuery: Sunday Morning, a simple translation tool. Check on the demo on the right side of the page. It uses Google's Translation API. I'm investigating how simple it would be to create a Wordpress plugin out of it; wouldn't that be sweet?! Find any other sweet looking jQuery progs lately? ... Read More

Sunday Special QA No. 40


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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 ... Read More