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-Shaffer’s Top 100 Church Blogs + a Few More

Posted by Dr.D | March 20, 2010 .

Here’s Kent Shaffer’s latest ranking of the:  “Top 100 Church Blogs”
Take a look and get some ideas on how you may improve your own blog. I already subscribe to about half of these and find many of them to a great sources for topics, and  improvements.
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-5 Common Grammatical Mistakes That Make You Look Dumb!

Posted by Dr.D | March 5, 2010 .

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Here’s a helpful guide to some common mistakes that I make every once in a while and you probably do to. Written by Brian Clark of Copyblogger: “Five Grammatical Errors that Make You Look Dumb”
He lists five mistakes to avoid when blogging and writing web copy:

1. Your vs. You’re
2. It’s vs. Its
3. There [...]

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-Facebook as an Outreach Tool

Posted by Dr.D | February 26, 2010 .

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There are over 350 million folks on Facebook and it is still growing exponentially. It has incredible potential as a vehicle for outreach.
Here’s an excellent article from Digital Evangelism Issues on using Facebook in ministry. It addresses various current issues and has links to helpful training:
“Facebook outreach and training”
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-Podcasting and Audio Sermons -Differences?

Posted by Dr.D | February 21, 2010 .

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I’ve been reading up on podcasting lately since I am exploring an idea along with a friend of mine for starting a new Bible Q & A/apologetics podcasting program.
For a long time I didn’t really know the differences between audio sermons or audio teaching and podcasting. They seemed the same to me since [...]

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-Some Helpful Internet Stats for the Year 2009

Posted by Dr.D | February 15, 2010 .

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Wow! 350 million people now on Facebook.  I had no idea–unbelievable!
Here’s a link to a bunch of different Internet stats collected for the year 2009.
The following I have lifted out as potentially important for evaluation in Internet ministry:
Websites
* 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
* 47 million – Added [...]

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-Podcasting Options for WordPress

Posted by Dr.D | February 9, 2010 .

Vin Thomas at Church Crunch evaluates 3 podcasting options for ministries using the WordPress platform in the following post:
“3 Ministry Podcasting Options with Wordpress”
He looks at and rates the PowerPress and Sermon Browser plugins and then presents a ‘no’ plugin WordPress option. Also deems the PodPress plugin as dated.
Some good info here for WordPress [...]

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-Statistics You Can Use in Internet Ministry

Posted by Dr.D | February 4, 2010 .

(The ipod family  via Wikipedia)

Here’s a statistical reference I found on Church Forward blog:

76% of Americans drive to work alone.  Only 10% carpool, and 5% use public transportation, while 3% percent walk to work. On average, Americans spend 25 minutes commuting each way.

Statistics can actually a gold mine for planning outreach ministries.
For example- if 76% [...]

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-Google vs. China on Internet Censorship

Posted by Dr.D | January 17, 2010 .

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Google email accounts were presumably hacked by the Chinese government in December. Since the victims were primarily Chinese human rights activists this resulted in a strain between Google and the Chinese government.
Now Google is saying that they may quit China over censorship of search results.
For once Google is on our side. China is [...]

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