What does your website say about you?

What does your website say about you?

Yes, it matters.  Right or wrong, people make a judgement about your church based upon your website. “But that’s not who we are!” “We don’t have the time, money, resources, knowledge, will, etc to pay for our website.” “Our website isn’t a priority!  Ministry is our priority” Imagine this.  A visitor walks up to your church and enters the narthex to find bulletins from 2 years ago.  The area is cluttered and smells musty.  What have you communicated to your new visitor?  Vitality?  Growth? Hope? Your website is the new front door.  Visitors to your website will form an opinion about your church based solely upon your web presence. BUT, it’s not hard to make a good first impression.  It’s not about flash and pizazz.  Communicate that you care, provide useful information, display it professionally, and keep it up to date.  Tell the story of your church in pictures.  Make prominent the things that are important to you and your ministry.  It’s a lot easier than you think. The first step is to recognize that your website is important and you do need to do something about it. What you’ll find in this website is resources to help.  You can do it.  It’s not beyond your reach. We’re here to...
Why you should have a Dropbox account

Why you should have a Dropbox account

Convinced?  Download it here Dropbox. For the rest of you, you can take the tour. Here’s my simple way of understanding dropbox. It creates a folder on your computer the syncs to your web account.  If you have more than one computer, it will also sync those files to whatever computer that you designate.  There are apps on iOS and Android that will also allow you to access your files there. Key concept 1: Access to your files most anywhere. Key concept 2:  Sharing your files with others.  Within dropbox you can share a folder and whatever files are in that folder will be synced between you and all who are authorized.  Great for group projects or making important files available to those who need them. My wife is the pastor of our church.  Together we print the bulletins weekly.  She creates the bulletin and saves it in the dropbox folder.  When it’s time to print, I open the Dropbox folder on my computer and print to our color printer.  No need to attach files to emails or swap thumb drives.  Any file updates are synced within seconds or within a few minutes with large files or slow connections. If you are wondering if Anna and I share all of our files, we don’t.  We have different tastes in ebooks therefore that folder remains unshared.  However, the folder of sample Lenten bulletin cover images is shared with the staff at my former church. Honestly, I had no idea how many ways this would be useful when I first signed up.  Now I can’t imagine not using it.  My recommendation...