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Facebook Tip – Organize and Promote Your Ministry’s Events

With so many things fighting for the attention of the average college and high school student, it can be a struggle getting students to show up for anything, including class. The social media landscape, however, can make it a lot easier for your ministry to cut through the noise by greatly increasing the number of [...]

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USTREAM Streaming Video on Your WordPress Blog

Using a USTREAM live video feed on your blog is easy, and it makes finding your streaming  feed easy for your target audience! This screencast tutorial will help you embed both video and chat on your WordPress blog. NOTE: If you scroll down this page, you’ll see I have pasted some code that I refer [...]

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WordPress Permalinks Issue on Bluehost

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There is a known bug with WordPress blogs hosted on Bluehost that will crash your site and prevent you from logging into your WordPress dashboard. The bug occurs if you change the permalink settings on your site. This tutorial will show you what triggers the bug, and how to fix it. If you’re not comfortable [...]

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WordPress Blog Tutorial: Installing a Google Calendar

Google Calendars are a great tool for any ministry. Multiple people can have access to updating them, and they can be easily installed onto your blog so that everyone who visits your site can be kept up to date on your ministry’s schedule of events. Managing the calendar is extremely easy since you only have [...]

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How To Use Facebook To Grow Your Ministry

Check out this great interview with Jeff Widman, a Facebook and marketing expert, about how to use Facebook to grow your brand and business. He makes some great points about how to maximize your visibility on Facebook, and some of the distinctions between fan pages and groups. How to use Facebook to Grow Your Brand: [...]

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Google Calendar Tip: Plan An Event More Effectively

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A Google calendar is a great tool for any Christian ministry. You can easily grant your entire team access to a shared central calendar to help with planning and updating events. And this same calendar can also be used to keep everyone in your ministry up to date on upcoming events. Check out this video [...]

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Sticky Posts: How To Make a Post Stick To The Top of Your Home Page

Let’s say your group is putting on a HUGE event that you want your entire audience to know about. In fact, the event is so big that you wish your blog post about that event was always at the top of your list of posts on your home page. Not a problem with WordPress and [...]

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WordPress Tip: Insert a Google Map

Embedding Google Maps onto your ministry blog is a really easy way to show people where all of your events and outreaches are happening without them navigating away from your site. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to embed a map onto your WordPress blog. 1. Go to www.maps.google.com 2. Enter the desired address in [...]

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Youtube and Christian Ministry: Increase Your Ministry Reach With A Youtube Channel

Mashable.com posted a great article with four easy steps for optimizing your Youtube channel, and grow the number of people who see your ministry’s videos. Optimizing your video channel increases the odds of your content bubbling up to the top of everyone’s search results both in Youtube, and in other search engines like Google. And [...]

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Facebook Training Videos From Lifechurch.tv

Lifechurch.tv has created a library of Facebook training videos – Training Videos from Lifechurch.tv. These videos are a great resource to anyone looking to increase the online presence of their Christian ministry, especially for those just getting started with social media. Having a Facebook page can increase the scope and reach of your Christian ministry [...]

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