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Help is on the way [4]
My fourth edition in the resources section of this blog is packed with cool stuff for you to research, learn, implement and, well… let’s be serious – buy!
- If you still feel Facebook poses a serious privacy risk, sign on with Lifelock – online identity theft insurance. Also check out this post about Lifelock over at Tim Sanders’ blog;
- A lot of people have been misunderstanding and miscommunicating the new direction of ministry over at Willow Creek Community Church. Tony Morgan helped to set things straight over at his blog;
- The new book unChristian is taking the world by storm, rising fast on the New York Times bestseller list. Also check out the interviews with the writers and contributors;
- Interested in church communication and online / media ministry? The guys over at Church Marketing Sucks are currently doing a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. We must all stop sucking sometime…
- Take advantage of some 20+ years in ministry and church planting with these Tips On Surviving In Ministry from Perry Noble, lead pastor at NewSpring Church.
I hope this will keep you clicking for some time!
More later.
Help is on the way [3] – Top 30 Blogs
For this edition of HIOTW, I thought I’d share with you the 30 top blogs and sites I visit and read on a daily basis. You might like all or some of them, so go ahead and try them out. I didn’t include a detailed description of each, since it’s going to take forever, and I have better things to do, like read up on some great blog content!
Looks like you’ll just have to click and find out for yourself!
Help is on the way [2]
Some more resources for your surfing pleasure…
- Dries Lombaard, local church consultant and Strengthfinder Coach, just launched his site for their community of faith, Journey With Others. Worth a visit!
- While on the subject of new local faith communities, have a visit with Pierre and the guys of 3rd Place – a not-so-new, though still very fresh bunch of Jesus followers!
- Just for kicks: Busted Tees. You’ll laugh your shirt off.
- You MUST go and give Coen Slabber a visit at his blog. Coen is involved at ekerk, and also serves as a church consultant. Everything I don’t have time to read up on myself, I get from his blog!
- Amazon just launched it’s new digital reader device, the Kindle. The whole idea is to enable Amazon to sell you books in a digital format, which will be faster and cheaper, eliminating shipping time and costs. Read more here.
- And lastly, for all you webmasters and designers out there, check out these test results on how peole react to different webpage layouts and designs, courtesy of Seth Godin. Read his post here, and even more here.
We will take a break from the My Megachurch Confessions series for the weekend, and continue again next week.
Chat soon!
Help is on the way [1]
For this week’s online ministry resources I gotta whole bag o’ goodies fo’ ya!
- My friend and brother from another mother, Wilmar van Heerden, just launched his survey on the local church and online technology, focusing on social networks, podcasts, blogs and so forth. Take part and help us build better online ministries!
- For more on online surveys and polls for your own ministry, check out this post at Church Marketing Sucks. Also check out this free church survey available courtesy of Mark Batterson and National Community Church.
- If you’ve ever considered engaging the blogsphere from the writer’s perspective, please hop on over to the Digital Leadership Network, and read this scary post by Cynthia Ware on pastors and blogging. Insightful, but scary.
- I recently added PastorHacks to my Google Reader subscription list. Their tagline is as follows: less time on tasks, more time with people. In short, the blog focuses on doing those everyday church tasks quicker and with more efficiency. Cool.
- Everybody’s favourite internet friend, Google, finally launched the newest addition to their Google Apps range, being the online answer to Microsoft’s Powerpoint presentation software: Google Presentations (creative naming, huh?) Read more about it here, here and here.
That’s it for now!
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