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Facebook - A Year in the Trenches

By Eric Murrell Monday February 8, 2010

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It’s hard to believe that it has now been almost a year since our church took a big leap into social media with a Facebook Fan Page. When I wrote the corresponding article, Facebook Fan Pages were the new hotness and very few ministries had given them a second thought. Today, it seems like almost every ministry I’m aware of has Facebook page, and rightly so… It’s a fantastic (free way) to connect with your audience where they’re already gathering. Let’s break down how it has helped my church over the last year…

Friday Four: Perks of The Prayer Engine

By Cleve Persinger Friday February 5, 2010

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MediaSalt Labs added a baby to the family this week with the launch of The Prayer Engine. Have you had a chance to check it out? What are your thoughts?

I’d like to share four of the many features I’m excited about.

Formspring.me

By Cleve Persinger Thursday February 4, 2010

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Have you made a visit to formspring.me? It only takes 3 minutes to set up an account.

I’ve seen various references to it over the past several weeks, so I finally checked it out. Pretty cool, and it got me thinking about its usefulness on a ministry level.

What’s your take?

Introducing The Prayer Engine

By Eric Murrell Wednesday February 3, 2010

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After months of quietly working on things behind the scenes, I’m excited today to finally unveil the first product developed under a new Media Salt initiative. Frustrated by many of the solutions out there, Cleve and I have always discussed making our own (affordable) tools that would help the Church leverage technology for real ministry results. Without further ado, I’m thrilled to unveil our first step into the marketplace with The Prayer Engine. Hit the jump to see what we’ve cooked up!

“Dispense Happiness” Through Technology

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Yesterday Steve Fogg (@stevefogg) posted Church Happiness Machine. He challenged churches to break the stereotypes and become a “dispenser of happiness… No holds barred. Generosity with no strings attached.”
Check out this video he included in the post.

A Shout Out to ChurchCrunch

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If you read many church technology blogs, you’re probably no stranger to John Saddington’s ChurchCrunch. Besides having the super-human ability to write an intelligible blog post every five minutes, John and his team have turned ChurchCrunch into a blog to be reckoned with over the last year and a half; if you’re not checking it [...]

Friday Four: Why the iPad Matters

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Let’s get this out of the way up front… The name is awful, and deserving of all the ridicule they’re taking on for it. Then again, so was the Wii, and nobody really talks about that any more. Just like Jr. High, people move on.
Besides the name, I think there has been a knee-jerk backlash [...]

Keeping An Eye On CSS3

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Have you seen some of the cool effects you can pull off in CSS3? Maybe you read Eric’s article a while back on the subject.
There’s good news and bad news. CSS3 isn’t the standard yet, and doesn’t have cross-browser support. However, this shouldn’t slow you down from learning and implementing it. That’s what progressive [...]

Characters Matter

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Twitter has quickly become the most common way I communicate with my friends these days (yes, even more popular than Facebook). There’s just something about the simple purity of a stream of status updates that are free from quiz invites and your latest acquisitions in Farmville. Although Facebook is the golden child at the moment, [...]

The Pope gets it. How about your pastor?

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I just read an interesting article on cnet, Pope asks priests to become more Web savvy.
Basically, Pope Benedict XVI has called on church leaders to use the latest web technologies to spread the gospel and open the lines of communication with folks.

The Week of the Tablet

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Even if you only have a drop of geek-blood coursing through your veins, you’re probably aware that Apple is supposedly announcing their quasi-mythical tablet computing device this Wednesday. Being a huge Apple fan, I’ve spent the last few months daydreaming about the stuff the new iPad/iSlate/iPod Grande could potentially bring to the table. As I [...]

Friday Four: Dealing with Conflict

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Conflict is inevitable in your church staff or ministry teams. Sometimes it can be a good thing and bring folks closer together, yet other times it can be very detrimental. How do you navigate that?
As I continue my reading of Whole Church, by Mel Lawrenz, he takes a chapter to cover conflict in the [...]