Comments on: What Makes a Good Church Web Ministry (Part 4a) http://ryanshinn.com/2009/04/17/what-makes-a-good-church-web-ministry-part-4a/ Let's blog about it! Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:52:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://ryanshinn.com/2009/04/17/what-makes-a-good-church-web-ministry-part-4a/comment-page-1/#comment-45 admin Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:28:11 +0000 http://ryanshinn.com/?p=227#comment-45 Good thoughts. I am in the process of writing 4b for this article. That should put some structure to these thoughts and progress them. Good thoughts. I am in the process of writing 4b for this article. That should put some structure to these thoughts and progress them.

]]> By: Matt http://ryanshinn.com/2009/04/17/what-makes-a-good-church-web-ministry-part-4a/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Matt Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:48:54 +0000 http://ryanshinn.com/?p=227#comment-35 For the last part of your first point about integrating networks, check out a site called socialthing.com. I currently update FaceBook and Twitter from that service. If they would just add WordPress, I would be set. Well, I also use my iPhone a lot for updates. That may be another option that is emerging as a portal for networking. Looking at what people do want from a church website - connecting, calendars, requests, contacts - that IS social networking ("People want to be able to connect to and interact with a home group" - that pretty much sums up FaceBook, right?). Most of the people that took that survey probably didn't know that social networking existed before FaceBook or MySpace (I was doing it in 1994 through Prodigy). I think that points out that people don't know jargon, they just know what functionality they want. I've seen that other places too - that people say they don't want a social network on their church site. But then they list what they do want, and they pretty much spell out a social network. For the last part of your first point about integrating networks, check out a site called socialthing.com. I currently update FaceBook and Twitter from that service. If they would just add WordPress, I would be set. Well, I also use my iPhone a lot for updates. That may be another option that is emerging as a portal for networking.

Looking at what people do want from a church website – connecting, calendars, requests, contacts – that IS social networking (“People want to be able to connect to and interact with a home group” – that pretty much sums up FaceBook, right?). Most of the people that took that survey probably didn’t know that social networking existed before FaceBook or MySpace (I was doing it in 1994 through Prodigy). I think that points out that people don’t know jargon, they just know what functionality they want. I’ve seen that other places too – that people say they don’t want a social network on their church site. But then they list what they do want, and they pretty much spell out a social network.

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