Yesterday I had the privilege of presenting to the IT Council of Campus Crusade for Christ about what I see as emerging and future web ministry trends…particularly with blogs.
I wanted to share some of those thoughts here.
I started with a little tongue-in-cheek scripture “interpretation” saying that Jesus wants us to use the internet right!
“[Jesus] said, […]

I read about the Reuters report earlier this week, but marketer Joseph Jaffe has the best post on this:
Podcasting and blogging apparently mean nothing to London cabbies, pub landlords and hairdressers. A shocked Tribal DDB’er reels in the reality that outdoor, coasters and magazines might in fact be the best way to reach these respective […]

Man, Feedburner makes doing a podcast look so easy.
I’ve gotta try this.

To celebrate Google’s 7th birthday, the AdWords Blog posted their top 7 tips:

Identify your goals
Build a relevant, targeted keyword list
Use the right keyword matching
Organize your campaign
Write clear, compelling ad text
Choose useful destination pages
Track results frequently and modify your campaign
Another good place to start is the Marketing Training Center from TruthMedia.
Jerry also offers an interesting take […]

Found a site full of tipsheets (articles) on how to write better copy. This stuff applies to articles, press releases, static web pages, blogs, etc…

Blogs can be great tools for having a conversation with others. Check out this post from The Virtual Handshake Blog | The Conversation is Real.
I found out about it because of his link back to me through my PubSub monitoring (he mentions that’s how he found out also). Here is an older post […]

The Campus Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ is notorious for using cryptic marketing on campus to create a buzz for an up-coming event.
Seems there’s speculation CCC at UW is up to it again. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I wonder…what are your thoughts on such marketing strategies?

Today this blog turns 1. Happy Blogiversary, eMinistryNotes!
LOL.
Anyway, I hope this has been a useful place for you. I’d love to get some 1-year progress feedback from you. What’s been good? What would you like to see more of? How would you change this?
To reminisce, here’s the first post and […]

I think I’m going to register and check this webinar out. It’s called Creating Customer Evangelists by the fine folks at Church of the Customer. It’s part of Microsoft’s Leadership Forum which I think is their way of hyping their product LiveMeeting. But I’m game.
Why don’t you register and join […]

I’m going to try and explain the three ways you can make MP3s available to an audience using internet tools. The audio contained in the MP3s is up to you. Could be Bible study material. Could be a sermon. Could be music. It has to be something you want to […]