I’ve lost count of the times when I’ve come up with a good church communications idea, only to forget it later. Thankfully, there’s a simple solution…
I’ve lost count of the times when I’ve come up with a good church communications idea, only to forget it later. Thankfully, there’s a simple solution…
What can we learn about church communication from Mary and Martha’s tea party? Do you ever find that it’s the stories with which we’re most familiar that we can brush over all too quickly? As the saying goes, familiarity breeds contempt. We see a paragraph heading in the Gospels for a well-known parable and something
How do you go about writing church blog posts? Where do you start and how do you see an idea through to completion? Recently we’ve thought about organisation and stopping church communications taking over your life. On a similar ‘getting things done’ sort of theme, I thought it would be helpful to share the process
Let’s face one thing right from the start: church work has a tendency to take over our schedule. Whether our church service is on an employed or a voluntary basis, it can be difficult to keep on top of the workload. Between you and me, church staff are especially susceptible to this – I challenge you
Last week I got an email from the lovely Mark. Mark works for one of the churches that has recently enjoyed a ChurchTrain training session. He had a question about using Trello for Church Teams. Mark wrote the following: Hi Joe We met as a communications team last night and decided to start using Trello
Edit: Unfortunately it seems the Blindwrite website is currently down! This blog post should be helpful for those who are given the responsibility to write church blog posts. If you’re new to blogging, you should read this church blogging advice first! A couple of times recently, I’ve been reminded of the idea of writing without
Blogging – the delightfully simple idea of sharing written content on the web, but perhaps less simple when it comes down to it. I have, of course, written on blogging before: Do we really need… a blog on our church website? This time, we’ll assume that you’ve decided to go ahead with this communication method,
Why we need to sell our ministry better, to church leaders, and the church as a whole. Ironically those with the job of communicating on behalf of the church aren’t always the best at communicating what they do, or why it’s important. If we want to get our church communicating better, we have to get
A Little Update: Unroll.me now even has an iPhone app, how about that! I previously wrote about Mailbox, one helpful tool I use to get to, and stay at, Inbox Zero. But that’s only half the picture…Unroll.me is a tool designed to keep your inbox clearer. It works by keeping an eye on your inbox
These days, collaboration is the buzzword of choice – and with good reason. It’s never been more practical to share tasks and content between several people, meaning less confusion and more teamwork – in theory! Let’s dive in. The internet, specifically cloud computing, enables real time sharing of documents, photos, videos – even whole folders
Do you find it hard to listen in church? Do you find yourself taking notes that you never look at again? Ok, I’ll stop- I’m sounding like an injury-claims advert. A couple of months back I wrote a post about sketch-noting on Sticks and Stones, and, so far, I’ve managed to keep up the habit. Recently I’ve started using sketchnotes
A Little Update: Unfortunately, Dropbox made the decision to discontinue Mailbox as of early 2016. Whilst this has caused a lot of annoyance, other developers have been hard at work with replacements. Currently I’m using Spark for iOS, with a Mac version following soon. You can’t go wrong Googling ‘Mailbox replacements’ though 🙂 With this said,