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Google Wave invite

Digital Church has some wave invites to give away!

The first 5 commenters to this post will recieve an invite!

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www.creativemyk.com

CreativeMYK is a number of things, but it is very useful t0 the Church design staff.

“Gallery – A place for anyone looking for free, quality Christian graphics and photos shared by Christian artists around the world.

It supports Artists – A place for Christian artists to show their creative talents, and allows Critique and Discuss – A place to network, discuss, and critique with other Christian artists from professional to amateur.”

(via ChurchCrunch.com)

Interesting article in USA today on evangelical internet based church campuses in the USA.

USA Today article on Internet Campuses

via @jasondaye

Steve Jobs presenting

When Steve Jobs takes the stage for a keynote presentaiton you can expect a highly polished and engaging experience. But what is it that makes it so?

Long time readers may remember that this topic has been on my mind since one of the earliest posts here on Digital Church. So it will come as no surprise that I am excited about the release ofa new book which may be of great assistance to church tech teams as well as pastors and speakers.

Carmine Gallo is a communications skills coach and has written a new book “The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be insanely great in front of any audience“.

This stuff is important for Pastors and tech team as we ‘compete’ with the modern day culture. In not many environments are people expected to sit and be focussed through a 30+ minute monologue and absorb it all.  Perhaps there are some lessons here? You can let us know in the comments!

You can read a summary of the book on Business week.

But here are the main points:

• Have a concise headline
• Have a villain
• Have a simple slide
• Have a demo
• Have a ‘holy smokes’ moment
• Sell dreams

Here’s a video of the author speakling about this new book:

via Business Week

A quick appology for the hiatus from writing. Baby number 2 arrived in July and live prior to and since has been pretty hectic, including moving house with a 6 week old baby (I do not recommend this).

If you still have the feed running, I’m glad that you have stuck around!

Look forward to reviews, thoughts and actions, and your interaction

Cheers,

Darren

Ceri Longville

Ceri Longville, a student at Redcliffe Bible College in Gloucester UK, has just published her college dissertation on church websites.

Having been a church webmaster for five years, Ceri saw the clear need for research. She says, “While working as web developer of a church website, I could see the potential for it to be used as a tool to make the church more accessible and relevant to the non-Christian/unchurched folk in the local community.”

Her ‘Reaching the Community with Church Websites’ is a valuable insight into the potential for making church sites truly ‘outsider friendly’. Very little research has been published recently on church sites, as far as we know. Download this free 95-page PDF e-book, and also add your comments when you have read it:
http://www.internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/945

This morning I set up a Twitter account for my church (@ParkieChurch). Probably nothing spectacular about that, but it got me thinking about how useful a tool of could be in a church community. Now I am reasonably sure that I am probably the only person at my church who uses Twitter in any real way, so will it be useful? Well my plan is to embed the feed onto the webpage and therefore we can have an easily updateable section of the front page which can answer the perenial question \”what are you doing\”? So we will follow the experiment and see if we have any positive results! I\’ll keep you posted.

I’m playing with a new Wordpress theme. I really like it but it is taking a while to get right!

Stay tuned and I’ll see how I go

LifeChurch.tv announces ChurchMetrics.com

Introducing ChurchMetrics from ChurchMetrics on Vimeo.