Church blog or church website?

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There are many people out there that engage in the debate website v blog.. Its about time Ignite entered the debate.

As you can see I have gone for wordpress to manage my content for my domain.  Why did I go for wordpress when some people say wordpress is blogging software?

Well wordpress is so much more than just blogging software.

Wordpress is:-

CMS - A content management system
SEO Friendly - Once set up the engines love fresh content
Open source - Its free and updates are free
Its a publishing system - A marketer once said to me “if you write the content you
control the content”
You connect with the reader easier when a blog is more personal than writing website corporate copy

This doesnt mean that websites are the wrong way when  looking ast providing an online presence..

My home church is http://www.KingsBolton.co.uk

That is our domain and we are currently working on adding a blog on to a subdomian which is

http://www.kingsbolton.co.uk/blog

This way you get the best of both worlds..

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Christian Social Networks - The rise in popularity

Why is it that the church still isnt grasping the power of web 2.0 and social networking.

I recently went through a webinar with one of the most successful social marketers out there, Mr jack Humphrey. Jack has dominated social marketing for years and is one for the guys to really be a continued success out there and he is one of my go to guys if I need advise.

Jack was talking about myspace, youtube, facebook.. and how everybody goes to the most popular social network sites to create a buzz, but he went onto explain that these sites just arent niche based enough.

It got me thinking.. in any nuiche at all there are social networking sites specific to that niche. I did a google search that took me all of 5 seconds and it listed all of the Christian social network sites in a post from

Church tech review

I didnt realise that there was this many. These are great places to find other Christians and is great for the niche I am operating in.

For evanglelism purposes I thought of how to get a niche to work for you in the local area to provide
impact for your local church.

Here are 5 things you can do.

1. Go into groups on myspace, facebook for your city, town or district.
2. Research what people are talking about. What is the buzz in that niche?
3. Participate in the discussion
4. Look to build relationship s not go for the throat, you are wanting to build credibilty
5. Research other social networks that may be part of the discussion or be location specific.

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Christian Branding - Ignite Your Ministry rebranded!

Well I have been pretty quiet over the last few days I have been working with a Christian web design company called Freckle in rebranding my site. I am sure you will agree they have done a great job with the design and logo branding.

This is a quick post today to map out the kind of articles I am going to be writing. I have been getting emails asking whether I have an e-book available to map out all the content I write about. I am currently working on an e-book you can download which should be ready for release in the next week or two.

In two weeks I am preaching for a week so I will be unavailable between the dates of 21-25 July.

So comments please, what do you think of the new website design?

Steve

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