Christian Social Networks - The rise in popularity

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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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Church blogging - The secret to installing wordpress

Yesterday we spoke about research and planning your site for the first few posts and putting yourself in the shoes of the reader. Today, I just want to put together a series of posts on how to get wordpress installed and how to start adding content.

Firstly, you need a domain name to host it. If you are unsure what to call it then use a tool

http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon

http://www.domainsbot.com/

Once you have a domain name in mind or already have one then you need to put the wordpress software on you hosting account. If you already have hosting just ask them if they support hosting a wordpress blog and if they have a wordpress installer in the control panel.

If you need hosting there are plenty out there to choose from I would recommend

http://www.everymanhosting.com

They have a wordpress installer which literally takes 30 seconds to install.

Once it is up and running you can start to change the design as it comes with two very basic themes which personally don’t look great.

All you need to do a search on google for wordpress themes and download them onto your computer and we will cover how to do it in the next post.

Have a browse here though.

http://hackwordpress.com/best-magazine-style-wordpress-themes/

In my opinion these are some of the best free magazine style wordpress themes.

Steve

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Why Ignite

Welcome, I always like to share a little about me. My name is Steve Prescott, I am 29 years young, I live in Bolton in the UK. I am the founder and author of igniteyourministry.com.

I have set up this site to share, teach and learn from other online marketers in the Christian world. I have been marketing online for the last decade but only over the last 3 years I have really seen massive growth online in the secular market. More about that shortly, a bit about me first.

I am Steve, I have been a reborn christian for 3 1/2 years now and my life has been turned around. I am now studying at Nazarene Theological College in Manchester, England training to become a Pastor. I am part of a church called Kings Church Bolton and is part of the Assemblies of God denomination.

I have a beautiful daughter called Stephanie whom is 7 this year and is growing into an a brilliant young lady. I have learnt from some of the best online marketers in the business and feel compelled to share what I have learned to the Christian community to build local church, and Christian para-organistaions, which in turn will build the Kingdom of God. Some of this information will be free, other courses will have a cost.

Read the vision statement on how I can help.

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