Church Website and Internet Strategy on a Budget March 5, 2008
Posted by sdpurtill in : Church , trackbackChurches have horrible internet strategies across America. The only church that I know of that has really gotten it right in my opinion is Mars Hill Church, but they’ve got the resources. Here’s a cheap way to do things right on the internet if you’re a church on a budget.
Social interactions: Facebook
Put your church group and ministries all on Facebook. Make a Facebook group and have all the members of the church join it, then run events and updates through that. Utilize the discussion board to hear feedback from people that go to the church. Make sure the officers are up to date, so this can completely replace the About page and all that garbage that go on most crappy church websites.
Events: Facebook
’nuff said
Website: Tumblr
Nobody’s built anything worthy of mention here. I would actually say to use Tumblr, and just make it really lightweight. Post basic information on the page, and let people subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates about things that are going on (link to events on Facebook and stuff). Let the pastors post updates and write about the upcoming week etc. Also post videos on this (on Vimeo). Tumblr would be cool because you can 1) put it on your domain and 2) customize it like crazy.
Video: Vimeo
Upload all the videos that are made for the church (announcements, sermons, etc) to Vimeo and if you have the resources, use Vimeo HD to have all of your videos stream in HD quality (it’s beautiful).
Photos: Flickr
Post all photos to Flickr after an event/conference and put them into a set. Would be really cool.
Podcasting: ???
I don’t know anything about podcasting because I think it blows.
That’s the advice I’d give, just pounded this out really quickly so comment if you have ideas.
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