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Take a look behind the curtain of ChurchMag as we talk about how we’ve managed a multi-author blog for several years.
If you’re managing a multi-author blog for a church, ministry, or nonprofit organization, be sure to take a listen!
As for the rest of you? Come join the fun. đ
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Since the very beginning, I have been pushing my other website ChurchAndMentalHealth.com to be forward thinking. So when I knew I was going to do featured images with every article, I needed to decide on the ratio. But I know that the biggest reason for featured images is the social media platform you plan to use. And seeing as Instagram is doing nothing but increasing in strength as well as being image-focused, I decided to make all of my images Instagram-friendly.
This allows me to capitalize on these landscapes as well as make my blog image forward. So I’ve decided to take specific intentionality with these images and therefore I wanted to share my idea with you. So much so that I’m just giving you guys the Photoshop file below for free. Enjoy it, have fun making content with it.
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Should your church have a blog?
Maybe you already have a church blog — so what do you post?
This week we talk about the fact that some churches should consider not having a blog or rethinking their approach to content creation.
If you want to join the conversation, let us know via Twitter @ChurchMag using #cmagcast, by email at [email protected], or tell us here and we’ll share your comment, question, and thoughts on an upcoming episode.
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I am someone that loves to check off boxes and get stuff done. In youth ministry, I STRUGGLED with this because ministry with kids is always in flux and never-ending. Even students who say yes to Jesus need to get into discipleship and potentially student leadership. It was hard for me because I never could say I got stuff done.
This applies to blogging too. It’s all about productivity. Currently, I have to write an article for ChurchandMentalHealth.com by Wednesday because I have given myself the task of writing at least one article every week. I’ve also committed to at least four articles for ChurchMag every month, this article is the first for March. I need to finish a PowerPoint presentation on creating a Drug-Free Workplace for work that is due by March 10 and requires a bit of research. This is amongst spending time with my wife, kids, and self-care with working out and video games.
How do I determine what needs to get done?
Despite web development and social media advancements, some things will not change. These unchanging principles help us keep some important things in sight. In an earlier post, Engage, Respond and Answer, we explored the principle of engaging people. In this post, we look at another Online Presence 101 Principle: Basic Information. The number of rebrands and freshening up content doesn’t change the fact that information is still important.
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“Having an interest in how churches leverage tech could’ve made me more sensitive.” That’s one of the thoughts I had after an experience with a church online. This experience? Because I couldn’t find their website I searched for them on Facebook. I asked for service times until 363 days later. No kidding. Two days shy of a year, I got a response. I chose “response” because it wasn’t an answer to my simple question: “What are your service times?”
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