Category Archives: Religious Websites

The Greatest Web Team on Earth

June 23, 2007

OK. That’s a slight exaggeration, but it’s the greatest web team I’ve ever had the privilege of working with. It’s the Unitarian Universalist Association’s General Assembly Web Workers. They are at it again this year, and how I wish I … Continue reading …

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Southern Baptists Create an Ethics-Based Web Community

June 15, 2007

JosiahRoad.com was released this week in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Southern Baptists. It’s a web community built by their Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), featuring threaded discussion, a wiki and a popular concerns area. The design … Continue reading …

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The Delicate Art of the Website Critique

June 9, 2007

I’ve been asked to reflect on the redesigned United Church of Christ (UCC) website. What’s a church web diva to do? I could take the sledgehammer approach, like the endlessly astonishing Web Pages That Suck. Or I could do as … Continue reading …

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The Very Best Books for Creating Excellent Church Websites

May 28, 2007

I confess. I adore books. However, I’m a librarian, and I ascribe to Nancy’s Pearls of Wisdom (found on the Librarian Action Figure box). “Life is too short and the library is too large to ever read a book that … Continue reading …

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Invite Someone to Church, and Leverage the Web

May 4, 2007

Thanks to ChurchCommunicationsPro, I just discovered a nifty web tool for finding local churches: Invite Someone to Church. If you enter 37215, our church comes up in the top three. That would be Google at work, plus search engine optimization. … Continue reading …

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Raising the Bar for Large Religious Websites

April 2, 2007

Have you seen the new Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) website? After five long years of hard work, it was released into the Web this afternoon. You can still see its predecessor at archive.uua.org, where the UUA has cleverly stashed all … Continue reading …

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