For the month of October I used goo.gl almost exclusively to put it through its paces. Haven’t heard of it? It’s the new url shortener from Google. A couple of years ago several url shorteners began to appear on the market beginning with tinyurl.com and a few others, but fairly recently Google unveiled their own.
Here’s a few observations that I have about it:
1. It’s quick and minimalistic. Here’s a pic below:
We all know the drill, right? If you’re going to be a church or other organization that is relevant you have to be on Twitter or Facebook because that’s where all the people are. And so churches sign up for Twitter accounts and proudly put their link on their website…..and then what?
We feature ours prominently on our church site.
I read this post here on the MickMel Blog where he talks about the damage that a lot of these churches are doing to their reputation by using social media (i.e Twitter, Facebook, etc). How are they hurting themselves? Because apparently many churches are not actually active on them and don’t listen to people’s responses or questions on them.
In this post I wrote about our 200th post celebration (we’re currently on post 255) and talked about how I wanted to give away some iNotePads. Unfortunately the printer I was getting them from was having some major issues, and I just recently received them.
Before I announce the winners I first wanted to show a picture I snapped of the little pads.
They’re small, and don’t have too many sheets to them, but it’s my simple way of saying thank you to those that are involved in this learning community on Modern Ekklesia.
I recently had the opportunity to attend a seminar by Tim Burrill, Chief of Operations at Walt Disney Pavilion at Florida Hospital for Children. In a fascinating presentation he shared the story of how this particular hospital went from dead last place in a national satisfaction survey, to first place in a year and a half. That’s a pretty huge jump.
So what made the difference? In short, they began to learn from Disney.
You really want to make it as easy as possible for people to receive your content if they’re interested. This means making sure that people can subscribe via RSS and email. In this video I do a walk-through of how to add the Feedburner code into your blog so that a subscribe via email form appears on your blog.
The team over at 8bit has just released Live Theme. It’s a slick-looking WordPress theme that can be used to stream live events.
This theme will take care of the front-presentation aspect of it. You still need to figure out how you’ll be streaming things on your own. But if you’re in the market for doing church “online” then I suggest you check this out. It’s built on the Standard Theme framework which is very solid, and which I happen to use for this blog. That also means that set up will be really really easy.
Have you ever wanted to do a screen share with another computer? I know I have. There have been times in which I’ve received calls from the church office from someone needing help with something or wanting me to check something out. These have been situations in which it would have been impractical to send me a file, or in which I wouldn’t be able to make it into the office.
These situations are perfect to do a screen share. In this video, then, I do a walk-through of a website called www.teamviewer.com which allows you to share your screen in addition to other features.
Have you ever done a screen share? Are there any other programs that you’ve used to do them?
