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Starting a Blog: My One Year Adventure 27 Aug 2013 | 06:52 pm
Image by Cambodia4kidsorg This is a guest post by Ikechi Awazie. My first experience with blogging started when I volunteered to create a website for my church (Foursquare Gospel Church Itire). Lik....
Micro-consulting: Another Innovative Opportunity for Ministry and Business 22 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
Proverbs 16:16 says, “How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!” Three thousand years later, we exchange a significant amount of our gold for wisdom and insight in b...
August SEO Update: Google Says “No” to Child Porn Warnings, Makes Other Changes 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
A couple weeks ago the Prime Minister of the UK, David Cameron, expressed his concern about how much child pornography and child abuse videos/images are online and how easy it is to find it. So, he a...
Take a Stand Against Vertical Video Syndrome! 16 Aug 2013 | 06:13 pm
No doubt you’ve seen people shooting videos with their phones held vertically. Well, someone has finally created a video to try to put an end to this growing problem. Have a look… and a laugh. (and p...
13 Myths about Social Media and Church #ChSocM 14 Aug 2013 | 10:20 pm
People have been making assumptions about social media since our ancestors first started carving status updates onto their cave walls. Many of them continue to be spread today. So, last night, in ano...
How to Get Your Church or Ministry Email Read in Gmail’s New Inbox Tabs 13 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
Recently Gmail introduced a new tabbing system for its inbox which has caused a lot of communications and marketing people to freak out. The Gmail inbox now contains 3 tabs – primary, social and prom...
Get Daily Devotionals on the Go (& in Video) with the 2 Minute Pastor App 8 Aug 2013 | 12:42 am
Originally reported on ChristianPost.com: “2-Minute Pastor” Neil Franks needs just a little bit of a person’s time to inject some biblical truth into them through a smartphone app that allows busy pe...
American Bible Society Phases Out ForMinistry, Recommends OurChurch.Com 6 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
After more than a decade of equipping churches for ministry online the American Bible Society has announced that it will be shutting down ForMinistry.com on October 31, 2013 and is recommending that o...
Loving Support of Injured Girl Bridges Real / Virtual World 1 Aug 2013 | 10:15 pm
One of the great debates concerning social media is whether online relationships are real relationships. Some argue that online relationships are not “real” because they are superficial. But the real...
Win a Copy of The Social Media Gospel by @MeredithGould 31 Jul 2013 | 09:18 pm
Today we’re reviewing, discussing, and giving away four copies of the brand new book The Social Media Gospel by Meredith Gould. Keep reading to learn how you can get a copy. Meredith Gould has writte...