Hopefully your Christmas turned out better than Rabbit’s.
Archives for 2012
What Really Matters for Churches On Social Media
Mashable wrote a great article on October 1 about what Facebook should really be for marketers. In the article, there was a major clarification that had to be made about Facebook Pages for Marketers. For a long time, it has always been about the popularity issue: how many fans do you have. But in their article, they showed that it is actually more important to use the reach and frequency of content from your page than necessarily the number of Likes you have.
But what should the most important part of social media be for the Church?
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3 Firefox Plugins to Help You on Your SEO Journey
So you’ve got an awesome website, but Google hasn’t figured out how awesome it is yet, and as a result you’re not turning up on the first page of results where you would like to be! Perhaps your church is being trumped by other local churches, so no-one new is coming along because they haven’t looked on page 2 or 3? It’s the question that everyone with a website asks – ‘how can I get up onto page 1 of Google?’ . [Read more…] about 3 Firefox Plugins to Help You on Your SEO Journey
The Chris Brogan Effect [Video]
Bryan Allain, founder of Killer Tribes, had a brief and initially uneventful interaction with Chris Brogan, a big online business man on Twitter. After a friend praised Bryan for his work, the simple conversation sent Chris to Bryan’s website and sent a wave of emotions and actions to make Chris’s experience the best he could have.
Bryan has summed this up as the “Chris Brogan effect” into two parts for how we should look at our website with fresh eyes:
- Are there any messes I need to clean?
- What do I want to highlight?
Enjoy the video. It may change how you view your own website.
2012 Internet & Mobile Trends [Infographic]
The 2012 year shown a radical increase in mobile devices from the traditional desktop and laptop devices and therefore a whole new market for the taking. Of course there are the normal characters like Apple, Android, and Windows, but who is using them and what are they using it for? Do they want to search the Internet or are they only using it to text and call others?
Here are a couple of great points on the infographic below:
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The $10,000 Question
Now, don’t get too excited. We areĀ not giving away any money. But I once heard a piece of advice that went something like this, “When you are talking to an innovative leader, don’t try to find out what they know. Try to learn how they think.”
Over the years, I’ve come to respect and appreciate the community around ChurchMag for many reasons. One of which was that it was full of people that were willing to share their expertise and give advice.
So, I’m here to learn today. If your creative team or organization was given $10,000, how would you spend it?