by Wil Ranney | Apr 29, 2014 | Websites |
I spent the weekend at WordCamp Minneapolis and was reminded just how cool and supportive the WordPress community is. Many churches use WordPress, and still others may be interested. For those who don’t know what it is, WordPress is a Content Management System,...
by Wil Ranney | Apr 21, 2014 | Websites |
A few weeks back Getty Announced that they would open up a large portion of their image library (perhaps the largest in the world) to non-commercial usage. This could be handy for churches, but it comes with some limitations. You can’t copy and paste the image,...
by Wil Ranney | Mar 17, 2014 | Websites |
1. Don’t call it “donate” A lot of churches have scuttled the language of “donations” for “giving.” Giving, givers, gifts, has a warmer context than donor, donation, and donate. Plus, the concept of gifts is more Biblically...
by Wil Ranney | Mar 3, 2014 | Social Media, Websites |
Last week I talked about how churches (particularly small ones) can use facebook as their primary website. This week I want to talk about a hybrid approach, where you still have a traditional website, but it get’s most of it’s content from facebook....
by Wil Ranney | Feb 28, 2014 | Social Media, Websites |
Facebook is good at handling news, information, people, events, pictures, and videos; which is most of what a church needs in their website. In addition, it adds comments and chat. There are few challenges in getting your key information like worship times to show up...
by Wil Ranney | Feb 19, 2014 | Church, Websites |
I was asked this week to talk about how to make – or update – a church building that will be technologically relevant 30 years into the future. This is actually something that I think about quite a bit, so I was happy to oblige. Here is more or less what I...