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Nonprofit Software

How To Start An Effective Church Podcast

Podcasts. Seems like everyone has one these days, and for good reason. Podcasting has taken off in the past couple of years and remains a strong way to increase brand recognition, communicate organization messaging, and best of all, tell incredible stories. Always start with why You may think that you can just “build it and […]

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Nonprofit Software

5 Best Practices for Nonprofit Websites

The web is an increasingly crowded place. Getting your message out in the sea of other website and connecting with potential volunteers and donors is becoming increasingly difficult. That isn’t even counting the other forms of media that fill our eyes each day. While there is no silver bullet to slaying the perfect website dragon, […]

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Nonprofit Software

Why Your NonProfit Needs A Website

Your organization, church, nonprofit needs a website. If you don’t already believe that, it is my hope that I can help convince you. In today’s highly competitive market for nonprofits and the finite amount of donation dollars available, those with clear, consistent, strong digital platforms are winning the day. Take a look at organizations like […]

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Nonprofit Software

Considerations Before Starting a Church Website

Truly investing in a church website and their online strategy is work. Our team had invested heavily in this small church’s website.  From architecture to strategy to development and design.  We had given it our all.  They had a solid foundation and gameplan for content and social strategy for at least six months.  Unfortunately, they […]

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Nonprofit Software

Small Groups In WordPress

Small groups can be life changing. One of the greatest ways I have found to discover what a church truly values and how well my family and I will do there is how the church approaches small groups.

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Nonprofit Software

Church Podcasting – Theme or Plugin?

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve worked with a church that uses WordPress as their CMS of choice and loves it.  Having worked in church tech for several years, I saw this so many times.  It’s a great platform with a low barrier of entry and great resources for those without massive marketing […]

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Software Development

My Workflow – Coda 2

So I received a question a few days ago about my workflow and I am more than happy to share the tools and workflows that I use to get things done.  By no means am I or my workflows perfect and I’m constantly adjusting and testing to make them better. If you’ve got advice or […]

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Nonprofit Software

Finding The Right WordPress Theme For Your Church

It was 2011. I had just gotten married to my beautiful bride and was looking for a full time, salaried position to begin our new life together.  We had graduated from college a few months before and were starry eyed in love and with hope about the future.  As luck would have it, I found […]

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Personal News & Updates

Goals for 2015

In earlier posts I spoke about my 2014 and also what my 2015 was going to be about.  But I also want to share several specific goals that I have for 2015 and for this blog.

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Personal News & Updates

2015: A Year For Stories

When you think of storytelling, who do you think of?  Not what, but who?  For me, it is Chris Lema.  That guy can tell an amazing story.  Not only is he a great storyteller, but his stories are compelling and interactive.  You want to respond, to share, to reach out.