Leadership Network Digital Blog

Wipe Your Nos and Buts

Greg Ligon — 2012-03-01T18:47+00:00

No. Not yet. Of course not! I have no money. I have no time. I have no _____________.

But I can't. But I don't know how! But what about _________________. But what will they _____________________.

For every yes we can come up with about an idea, I'm sure we can think of a hundred nos and buts. The internal and external battles can become quite overwhelming. These battles can lead to exhaustion, discouragement, paralysis and even death of an idea. It's definitely true that when it comes to ideas, only the stong survive.

Does it have to be that way?

In his new book, Good Ideas. Now What?, Charles Lee helps you "wipe the nos and buts" from your ideas. He introduces a variety of insights and tools that will help you to move your "ideas to execution." Grab a copy today and then share your thoughts about how you move from idea to implementation to impact through the comments section for this post.

For additional resources on moving your ideas to implementation to impact, check out the Leadership Network program offerings here.

Author: Greg Ligon

Topics: Leadership Development Books Digital Learnings

Game Changer from Leadia!

Greg Ligon — 2011-09-26T17:09+00:00

Concise innovative ideas, Dynamic embedded media. Integrated social networking. All of these elements combine in a powerful mobile app to deliver an interactive growth experience that’s both substantial and flexible. We call it Leadia!

One of the new titles just released is Game Changer: Five Essential Ingredients of an Effective Care Strategy by Scott Wilson, Senior Pastor at the Oaks Fellowship. Great stories and real life application that you can begin to put into practice today!

Most churches say they care about people and their community, but they don’t have a strategic plan to do so. Their ministry philosophy has more to do with getting people to come to their Sunday service than it does about changing the very culture of the community around them. Jesus didn’t tell us to sit in our churches and pray that the lost would come to us…He commanded that we go to them, to love them, to serve them, and to do life with them, believing that we might be able to reach as many people as we can with the gospel.

This Leadia experience is a GAME CHANGER…it will help you develop a care strategy for your ministry that will put your church at the center of solution for the biggest issues facing your community. Imagine if people in your community drove by your church and said, “That church is making a HUGE difference in this city.” Scott says, "I used to think people said that about our church….until I really listened."

About this experience ...

GAME CHANGER will help you discover, develop, and deploy a Care Strategy for your church that isn’t self-centered but Christ-centered and community focused. It will show you how to equip the people of your church to pray, serve, and give with a greater passion and effectiveness than ever before. Pastor Scott Wilson will share how The Oaks Fellowship increased their number of volunteers by 30% and sustained a 15% increase in their weekly offerings. This is truly a GAME CHANGING EXPERIENCE for leaders who want to be at the center of solution for the needs in their community.

Read it!

Watch it!

Talk about it!

That's Leadia from Leadership Network.

Author: Greg Ligon

Topics: Externally Focused Churches Generous Churches Leadership Development Multi-Site Churches Digital Learnings

Google+ First Impressions

Todd Rhoades — 2011-07-08T13:13+00:00

I whined and moaned and complained that I couldn’t get in to the first round of Google+. A lot of people sent me invitations and tried to get me in, but to no avail, until Google briefly opened the door for some new people last night. I was in! Here are my first impressions.

At first, I was underwhelmed. The interface (especially the streams) take a little getting used to. It’s nice, but a little harder on the eyes than twitter (with defined tweets) or facebook. All the videos, links, thumbnails, pics, etc. are all in-line, which is great… but it does take a little getting used to.

I played around a little with the Hangout (group video chat) feature. This has some real potential. You can invite people in your circles to ‘hangout’ with you in a video chat. The coolest part of this is that the camera view changes to whoever is talking. That’s a neat feature. And, you can watch youtube videos and do other things together as you ‘hangout’. Very cool.

To be honest, though, I was underwhelmed with the Sparks area. It really just brings up articles and rss feeds in a search format. I thought it would be more of a channels format, where everyone could create their own channel and promote it. I hear that’s coming soon. But the way Sparks is set up know, I doubt I’ll use it much.

The initial notification settings are a little dumb. It sends you an email with EVERY single sign-up, comments, etc. But these are easily shut off in your preferences.

Everything does seem to come into place and start to make sense. The +1 thingy they’ve been pushing for a while finally has some context and use; and the google profile page now takes on a greater meaning for your online identity.

Circles are really sweet. What google has nailed is the ability to control the flow of your information. You can publish to one person or millions… that’s up to you. You can share pics with just family, your co-workers, your home group, or everyone on +. That’s pretty sweet, and a feature that’s hard to use in Facebook. In google+ it’s natural.

Will google+ last? It’s hard to tell. It’s addicting, I can say that. But until they open the door wide open and more of my friends, family, and acquaintances make their way there, it’s kinda sparse.

Is it a Facebook killer? Um… I’m not sure yet.

Would I love to have everyone on Google+ to test it out? Absolutely.

What are your thoughts so far with Google+? I’d love to hear them.

And, you can check me out here, btw.

If and when they open the registration again for Google+, you can go here to sign-up!

Todd

Author: Todd Rhoades

Topics: Digital Learnings

POLL: Kindle beats Nook, Sony, and iPad with our Readers

Stephanie Plagens — 2010-08-06T00:26+00:00

Leadership Network recently polled Advance readers on their reading habits, including what kind(s) of digital readers they prefer. Not surprisingly, 42% own an iPhone or other smart phone with reading capabilities. The Kindle was the most popular digital reader, with the iPad coming in second.

A good chunk of respondents (13%) are planning to purchase a digital reading device within the next 6-12 months. I wonder if the recent announcements of new reading platforms will influence their decisions?

Stephanie Plagens is the Publications Manager for Leadership Network.

Author: Stephanie Plagens

Topics: Digital

Getting the Most from Social Media: An Interview with Mark Clement

Leadership Network — 2010-06-25T00:25+00:00

The following is an interview with Mark Clement founder and president of Big Picture Media in Birmingham, AL, which provides communication strategies and media content for churches and other faith-based clients across the country.

A lot is going on in “social media” today – how should churches define that space?

Churches should view social media as being equally important as their websites and as any other core communication tools they may already be using. Successful churches meet people where they are, and right now the “where” digitally/web-wise is, without question, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other related social media forums. If you want to be part of the conversation on any level, you have to be around the same table as those you're trying to converse with.

Why does social media matter?

First, social media is a game changer. Right now the community-wide water cooler is social media, predominantly Facebook.

This is where people talk about their lives, their needs, what's important to them, their struggles and their victories. The church needs to be “hearing” these things and then responding when appropriate. It's a window into the lives of your people and the people you are trying to reach. No longer are you dependent on someone calling you to deliver news; there's a constant stream of it right there in front of you.

A second reason is relevance: a relevant church knows and understands the things that impact its people and its community. If you're in a farming community you should know all about rainfall, government subsidies and all the other things that affect your community. If you're in a suburb it's typically all about the schools and the ball fields. Social media is bigger than all that because wherever you live it encompasses every single part of daily life. Being part of that shows you care, that you get it, and that you're not out of touch.

What are some statistics about the various types of media that churches shouldconsider?

Facebook has more than 400 million active users globally, with over 100 million in the U.S. alone. Women use Facebook more than men and they are primary communicators for their families, especially for church stuff.

The largest segment is people between 18-54 years old. Half of active users log onto Facebook on any given day. On top of that, more than 100 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile devices.

Statistics get a little fuzzier for Twitter. The word active is important here because more than 60% of Twitter users abandon their accounts within first month. There were just over 20 million active users by the end of 2009, mostly in the United States. That is expected to rise to about 26 million in 2010.

About 10% of the users generate 90% of the content. In other words, there is more listening than talking. It is more of a conduit to you as opposed to from you. It is more of a professional tool than a personal tool in contrast to Facebook.

Twitter can be a great tool if your crowd uses it, but if not don’t expect to convince them on it just because you are tweeting.

How important is it for churches to match their audience with the right media?

Extremely. When you do anything as a church you have to ask “why” and “who are we doing this for?”

If you're a small, declining church full of senior citizens, social media is probably a waste of time for you. although that may change in years to come. If you're an “average” church reaching a good mix of all ages, Facebook is for you as it will touch the most people. Twitter is more of a professional tool used by a professional crowd, and even then it's still used by a small percentage of those folks.

For example, the church where I am a member is about 1,500 in attendance each week, it is very affluent and it’s in an upper middle class area. There are tons of professionals but realistically less than 20% are probably active on Twitter -- and that's being generous. For most churches, Facebook is the best way to go.

What are the first steps in establishing this type of approach?

First, know your audience, what they are using and how they are using it. So survey your crowd. Second, know who is going to monitor and maintain everything and make it part of their job description. If this isn't planned out it will fall flat, just like most church websites do. And third, if you need help, hire a coach/consultant to come in for a few hours or a day and walk you through everything.

What are the negatives with social media?

In general it can become a huge time sucker. There is a fine line between using it and letting it use you. You need to be strategic and intentional in how you use it. Also if you're the type of church that is very image conscious, you need to be careful about who is responsible for speaking on your behalf in these forums. It has to be someone you trust to make wise decisions, but it shouldn’t need to be the pastor, who probably already has enough to do.

Should all pastors Twitter? In a recent gathering of our next generation pastors group they said they all do.

“All” pastors should not. But those who are eager to learn and value input from others can greatly benefit from the flow of information that can come to them via Twitter. For next generation pastors it’s a no-brainer. It’s a great way to hear about new books, conferences, trends, blogs, what’s working and what’s not, etc. -- it’s a great listening device. And for those who have something of value to add to the conversation, it is the perfect forum to engage in the exchange of ideas.

That jives with what they said. They find it a small part of their communication with their congregation but a big part of communicating with other pastors.

What does your company do to help churches in this area?

Big Picture Media provides all level of coaching/consulting related to social media, from on-site, to web and phone support, one time or ongoing. We can help a church develop a social media strategy as part of their overall communications plan. We can help them create that entire plan or help to incorporate the social media component into whatever strategy is pre-existing.

We also do anything and everything related to media. Branding, market positioning, overall communication strategy development, copywriting, print design, web design, video production, etc. Our team has 30 + years of church staff experience and all are heavily involved in their local ministries and churches. We speak the language, we walk the talk, and we love what we do.

You can connect with Mark via Twitter at www.Twitter.com/markclement, at his blog at http://www.markclement.com/, or you through the Big Picture Media web site which is http://www.bigpicturemediagroup.net.

This article originally appeared in Leadership Network Advance.

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital

Bobby Gruenewald: Technology Changes Everything About Ministry

Leadership Network — 2010-06-23T00:24+00:00

How are new technology and media shaping church ministry?
One of the changes already taking place is that social tools have created a culture in which people contribute and expect to have a voice. People don't just post something online and say, "Here is the information." You post something and expect 20 people to comment on it. The church context it is still by and large one-way communication, but inevitably that dynamic is going to change--or need to change--in order to address the fact that people are expecting to engage.

How are you creating a two-way communication environment for engagement to happen?
YouVersion was initially created as a website that allowed users to take the conversations already taking place online--blog posts, photos, websites, pod casts, etc.--and associate any of those elements with a Bible verse. Then we realized that if Scripture is really going to be something we connect with in the way we live and function, it will have to be accessible through a mobile device.

YouVersion has now expanded into an online resource and a free mobile Bible application with over 5 million users. We have a feature called YouVersionLive that allows communicators and pastors speaking at live events to put content into a nice, easy-to-read format that works on a mobile device. Speakers using this see the benefit of two-way interaction in their church experience because it allows them to get feedback, and it makes the content they are communicating more interesting and engaging.

What are your goals in using technology in ministry?
Our goal is to use technology in a connecting way. The number one win for us at Church Online--our online website which offers multiple live worship experiences throughout the day--isn't to get someone to look at content, but to actually connect with someone and interact through a live prayer or chat. If in that moment they can share something about themselves and something they want prayer for, that is the most meaningful interaction I can aim for. In all honesty, this is often more likely to happen in an online context than in the context of a physical church environment.

In fact, a man from Ireland who described himself as a thug, googled "church" one morning at 3 a.m. and landed at ChurchOnline. He joined a chat group and started talking with one of our online pastors. God used that interaction to completely turn his life around. Most churches are not open at 3 a.m., but this man was able to find a way to connect with God and with others from his computer. We have tools to connect with the world's population in ways that were not possible before.

What advice would you give leaders who are considering using more technology at their church?
Pastors and leaders need to decide what they are comfortable with. Leaders don't need to start adding everything the church down the street is using, but I do believe every pastor should be familiar with Facebook. It has made its stand and it will survive and grow. There are over 400 million people using Facebook to connect, so it's pretty safe to assume people in your neighborhood are using it.

Churches can easily use Facebook to create a page for their church, share upcoming activities or post photos from church events. Then see what happens. If there is a positive reaction then start adding more social communication tools. Part of our strategy at LifeChurch is to see where God is moving and do more of that and where He is not moving we do less of that and repeat the process.

What other online resources should pastors know about?
Open.LifeChurch.tv is our website which allows churches to access, download and use our creative content for free. We give away everything--all tools, videos and graphics--and you can remove our logo and put your logo on it.

There is also YouVersionLive which helps churches interact in more of a two-way context. For example, pastors can upload ahead of time what verses they will be discussing and church members can respond or mark it in their online journals. Small groups can also use it to set up Bible reading plans.

There are so many resources out there; it's really just finding the right ones for you.

You can find Lifechurch.tv on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/lifechurchtv.

Kelly McFadden is a freelance writer for Leadership Network and the liaison for vacation homes for charity. She currently lives in Denver, CO, with her husband and two children Campbell and Piper.

This article originally appeared in Leadership Network Advance.

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital

Facebook Approaching World Dominance?

Leadership Network — 2010-06-01T23:58+00:00

This map was from a post in 2008 - it showed what social networking sites dominated which countries at the time (April 2008). It wasn't clear if there was one dominant social network. Rather - each country had its own flavor of social network that fit their language and culture:

From this post, an updated map showed the landscape in June 2009. Facebook became the most popular social network in almost all English-speaking countries:

Another update in Dec 2009 showed Facebook made even more strides, becoming the dominant social network in Latin-America, Europe, and Africa as well. It even managed to displace Orkut in India (Orkut was hugely popular in India for the past few years):

Source for the 2 most recent maps

- Joe Suh

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital

one song from multiple locations

DJ Chuang — 2010-05-06T00:21+00:00

As the multi-site church revolution has become the new normal, being one church in multiple locations is not so much a big surprise. What might get one's attention is when a multi-site church does something out of the ordinary, as Northland Church (A Church Distributed) in Orlando, Florida, did. Northland's worship services are concurrent events, meaning that the church meets in multiple locations _and_ are worshiping together in real time--its worship team members are in two (or more) locations, while connected via live video and audio.

On one occasion (October 2009), Northland put together a worship song via internet video with musicians and singers in multiple locations in multiple countries! Watch the video:

Another recent YouTube video that's become very popular, with almost 700,000 views to date, has taken this virtual music idea even farther. A virtual choir was put together by composer Eric Whitacre, with 185 singers in 12 countries. The video editing and production shows how amazing this is -- watch the video:

Eric also blogged about how they did this virtual choir, using the best of social media tools to coordinate this project. Wow!

Do you know of other virtual music or virtual presentations that connected people from multiple locations? Please add a link in the comment section below.

Author: DJ Chuang

Topics: Multi-Site Churches Digital

now there’s Church on Facebook

DJ Chuang — 2010-03-11T00:21+00:00

Not to be confused with the book titled "The Church of Facebook" by Jesse Rice, as of this weekend, there will be two churches that are on Facebook, with their own Facebook apps, hosting worship services there -- Flamingo Road Church and Northland Church. [links go to their Facebook apps]

From Flamingo Road Church's press release, "Church Streams Live on Facebook", via Outreach Magazine:

Many churches do live Internet services, but Flamingo Road Church is taking it to a whole new level with a social network application. Flamingo Road Church is utilizing the Facebook platform, but took it a step further and developed the first live interactive service video streaming to connect with its guests. ... Flamingo Road Church is one of the leading churches that offer an "Internet campus" to their guests. Virtual church attendees can observe live services and simultaneously interact with Brian Vasil, Internet campus pastor.

In Northland's press release today, "Florida Congregation Plants Church in the 'Nation' of Facebook: Northland brings live worship to the social networking site's 400 million-plus residents", they mention the new Facebook app that's launching:

On Sunday morning, Northland, A Church Distributed will officially open the doors to its new Facebook app, which will allow worshipers to invite their Facebook friends to go to church with them—without leaving the familiar Facebook environment. Plus, even when live worship isn't happening, the opportunity for worship is readily available because the previous week's service will be posted and available for viewing 24 hours a day.

Good news for the Facebook residents! This does makes me wonder if there's anything in the water there in Florida that's fostering church innovations thousands of miles away from Silicon Valley ...

--- DJ CHUANG

Author: DJ Chuang

Topics: Digital

holding church services on the internet

Leadership Network — 2010-03-05T00:11+00:00

Brandon Buckner, the Director of the Internet Campus at McLean Bible Church, had his article, "Redeeming the Internet," published in Collide Magazine, on the occasion of the internet campus' 2nd anniversary. In the article, Brandon Donaldson (LifeChurch.tv) and DJ Chuang (Leadership Network) were quoted. Here's an excerpt:

Perhaps in its simplest form, online church is defined as a virtual expression of a physical worship service. ... the ascension of online church was inevitable, and it’s likely the number of online churchgoers will multiply for years to come. We’ve seen this firsthand at McLean Bible Church. In two short years, our Internet Campus has grown in attendance from 10 to 3,000.

“I think online churches are here to stay,” Chuang said. “They are a viable strategy for outreach, forming community, and building relationships, in the fellowship sense as well as the discipleship sense.”

... Brandon Donaldson of LifeChurch.tv holds the distinction of being the world’s first online church pastor, and he also holds a strong conviction about the effectiveness of online church. “The Church is all about people,” Donaldson said. “The Internet is just some tool we created, and I think all churches should use it.”
“You can’t do everything online,” he continued, “but you also can’t do everything in a church building. ..."

Read the full article >>

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital

Online Donation Tools for Churches and Non-Profits

Leadership Network — 2010-02-02T02:17+00:00

A recent survey of nearly 2000 websites of non-profits (including some churches) found that 2/3rd of them were accepting online donations:

16% have a white-label solution that lets the non-profit take credit card donations directly on their website. And more than half link to a 3rd party payment gateway to take their online donations.

Among the 3rd party tools, here was the breakdown:

More non-profits are using paypal to accept donations than any other tool. Paypal is followed by Network for Good, which seems to be some sort of non-profit aggregator that initially accepts payments and then redistributes them to the donor's specified non-profit.

Does your church have a paypal account to accept online donations? What has your experience been with any of these services?

- Joe Suh

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital Books Digital Learnings Multi-Site

50 Days Until the Spring National Church IT Roundtable March 11-12!

Leadership Network — 2010-01-21T05:17+00:00

Please pass this along to any church staff or volunteer geeks you know ...

Only 50 days until Church/Ministry IT staff and volunteers from across the country will descend upon Saddleback Church in warm sunny Lake Forest California to partake in 2 days of invaluable peer learning, networking and inspiration March 11-12.

If you can only attend one IT conf this year, this is the one I recommend without hesitation! Regardless of your church/org size, I guarantee you’ll leave with new knowledge, new friendships and loads of inspiration. I’ve been to every National Church IT Roundtable since 2006 and I leave each one totally amazed at what I’ve gained. Not to mention the incredible friendships I’ve built over the past few years are invaluable on both a person and professional level. So in other words – make every effort possible to get to this event. If you need me to write a note to your boss to help your plight let me know

We’re still firming up final costs, but it will be under $100…and that will include lunch and snacks both days…and if we get enough sponsors hopefully even dinner both nights.

Sponsors? Yes, we’re asking vendors to help offset the costs. Please encourage your favorite vendors to contribute. Even a small amount will be helpful. Vendors can contact info@citrt.org for more info on how to help.

Spouses? Yes, a number of us have been informed by our spouses that they TOO will be coming to California Spouses are encouraged to join us during the evening gathering times. Perhaps during the day they can form their own IT spouse support group and hang out together at the beach

Final details are still being nailed down, but here’s the schedule gist …
March 10 – optional pre-event informal gathering in the evening (possible dinner)
March 11 – Day 1 - 9am until late … Saddleback “behind the scenes” tour in late afternoon, group dinner, then a special worship service
March 12 – Day 2 – 9am until 5pm … then optional dinner for those flying out Sat/Sun

More details can be found at http://citrt.org … hope to see you there! Questions? Leave a comment or email info@citrt.org

For the latest up to the minute Church IT Roundtable news follow CITRT on twitter and/or facebook

Jason Powell - IT Director Granger Community Church - http://jasonpowell.net

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital Books Digital Learnings Multi-Site

Facebook’s Open Graph

Leadership Network — 2010-01-02T01:44+00:00

A couple month's ago, Facebook unveiled a project-in-progress called the Open Graph API, where websites could allow their visitors to use Facebook functions and interact with their Facebook friends.

Here's what Techcrunch speculates:

"So you can imagine that you might be able to create a Facebook-style Wall to include on your site, but able to update your statuses from your site, leave comments, like items, etc. Again, it’s like a Facebook Page, but it would be on your site. And you can only include elements you want, and leave out others."

Not many implementation details have emerged since then. But it sounds like a logical next iteration of Facebook Connect which lets a Facebook user bring his social graph with him to a non-Facebook site. With Open Graph, it sounds like the host site would then be able to support native Facebook applications and functionality as well.

The church website of the future can let its members log in with their Facebook accounts and interact with its content using Facebook's features. (ex leave Facebook comments/likes on a sermon, share pictures and links, etc).

Of course, any of these posts/comments will go back to their Facebook streams for their friends to see (aka outreach)

Sounds pretty exciting. Will churches be comfortable giving up this much digital freedom to its members?

- Joe Suh

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital

Accounting Made Simple?

Leadership Network — 2009-11-24T16:10+00:00

At a recent Leadership Network multi-site leadership community, Tim Goetz from The Well Community Church announced the completion of a new accounting software developed by he and a team of folks from the Sacramento area. Here is what caught my eye - “We wrote it around the fact that most nonprofits and most churches have their accounting done by a volunteer or someone without an accounting degree. We really simplified accounting (one of the beta testers 7 year old was able to use it), and time saving features so that volunteers can spend less time on the books and feel confident that they are doing the books right.” Take a minute to check it out at www.aplossoftware.com

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital

Evolution of Social Networking

Leadership Network — 2009-11-01T11:31+00:00

A (slightly dated) study from Forrester Research, summarized by Jeremiah Owyang, is breaking down the evolution of social networking into 5 eras:

With the following timeline of these 5 eras:

From the executive summary:

"Today's social experience is disjointed because consumers have separate identities in each social network they visit. A simple set of technologies that enable a portable identity will soon empower consumers to bring their identities with them"

Facebook Connect, in my opinion, is the definitive leader and pioneer in this move towards interoperability - the ability for web users to bring their social graphs, contexts, and content with them wherever they go.

If you run a church website, I think Facebook Connect could be very interesting to you. Imagine your church members logging into your site, posting comments about the latest sermon podcast, and having those comments (and the podcast) appear in their Facebook streams for all their friends to see.

And now with the Facebook Connect wizard (announced here), there's very little programming knowledge required to implement it. Are there any churches that have implemented FB Connect on their website?

- Joe Suh from MyChurch

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital

Can the online church really be the church?

Leadership Network — 2009-10-26T21:20+00:00

This new book by Douglas Estes, SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World, tackles the brewing questions surrounding the legitimacy of an online church. Many church leaders are discerning and discussing the "what is the church?" question that's been going for years, and now, growing numbers of church leaders are asking it in the context of online worship experiences and forming relationships and communities virtually.

The book's official website poses the question as: "Church on the Internet? Seriously?" This is the question many people are asking as more and more people chose to congregate online, and more and more churches look to launch internet campuses. But are these internet churches real? Are they healthy? Are they productive for faith? This is a conversation you can't afford to miss as together we ask, "What does it mean to be the church in the virtual world?"

The official website links to a number of commentaries, including these positive ones: Internet Campuses from A Multi-Site Church Roadtrip, Responses to concerns about online church by Tony Steward, and A lesson from history for doubters by John Saddington; and negative ones: There is no virtual church by Bob Hyatt, Is Online Community real Community? Questions about the Virtual Church by Drew Goodmanson, Limitations of online church by Bobby Gruenewald.

As I've started reading through the book, I appreciated the author not taking a cautionary posture, throwing up warnings and fears of how technology could be misused. Estes digs behind the assumptions and cultural lens we have about being present with one another in inter-personal relationships. This is excerpted from page 60-61,

"If we want community to flourish in the virtual world, we'll need to scrutinize our learned understanding of presence. Most people raised and educated in the Western world think of presence or being present as a physical act... Though defining presence simply as the location of our bodies is one of the foundational bricks of modern Western understanding of the world, it is not a God-given or biblical idea." [emphasis added]

I think the book makes a compelling case for how relationships can occur through telepresence, and that a biblical community and a biblical church is not limited by the geography of a physical location.

And, last week, a SimChurch blog tour connected bloggers with reviews, commentaries, and interviews:

Theology and the SimChurch [a chat with Douglas Estes] at Dan King's blog, BibleDude
SimChurch Blog Tour Discussion and Can a Church Exist in Cyberspace? at Chad Estes' blog, Captain's Blog
Book Review of SimChurch, plus questions about WikiWorship at Eric Nygren's blog, Returned Sheep
SimChurch and Typical Churches at Mark Robert's blog, MarkDRoberts.com
Intro to Online Churches at Cynthia Ware's blog, The Digital Sanctuary
Discussion on the Advantages of Virtual Churches at Kent Shaffer's blog, Church Relevance
Book Review of SimChurch at Dave Bourgeois' blog, Lessons from Babel
Plus an unofficial post on the blog tour, my myth-busting In Defense of Virtual Church over at Christianity Today's blog, Out of Ur

While I'm not so sure the discussions and reviews will change a lot of minds at this stage of the dialogue, I do think this book is one to be reckoned with. Where are you at with your thinking about the church in the virtual world?

-- DJ CHUANG, Director at Leadership Network [disclaimer: I received an advance reading copy of SimChurch from the publisher]

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Books Digital

studio tour of an internet campus

Leadership Network — 2009-09-23T19:00+00:00

Ryan Spilhaus (Associate Director of the Internet Campus) gave me a tour of the studio at McLean Bible Church's internet campus. By the way, McLean Bible Church just recently relaunched its website too, with a new logo design that better reflects its identity as a multi-site church.

Watch the video to see how they have things setup. They're one of the few internet campuses that runs 2 video feeds during a live experience, one for the person teaching and one for the accompanying slides.

Internet campuses out there - how about a studio tour of where you produce your online experiences? Add a link in the comment section below.

DJ CHUANG, Director at Leadership Network

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital Digital

Church Online? Troy Gramling, Flamingo Road Multisite Church Road Trip Blogger

Leadership Network — 2009-09-15T13:34+00:00

Today we are going off road and online with a discussion on internet campuses with Troy Gramling from Flamingo Road.

1. Troy, you say in Multi-site Church Road Trip that you and the team at Flamingo Road treat the Internet campus as just another neighborhood that you are trying to reach. How is it like other neighborhoods you reach? How is it different?

It is like other neighborhoods in that people have needs. And that is the doorway we use to help and to gain entrance into the community. Much like the neighborhood I live in people want community and anonymity at the same time. Some hide behind closed garage doors and others behind an alias screen name. In both places there are established “clicks” and social norms, ways in which people relate to one another that are unique to that neighborhood. We have also discovered that just like in a physical neighborhood those who make the effort to become “a part” are much more successful than those who do drive-by evangelism. One of the major differences is cost; it is much less expensive to advertise to the online community than it is to a physical neighborhood. The cost of billboards, direct mail, TV, door hangers etc., are much more expensive than blogs, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. So for the cost of one billboard for one neighborhood in a physical neighborhood you would be able to advertise in multiple online neighborhoods. For example you might blog about skateboarding and put up some pictures for one neighborhood and you might twitter and follow about parenting to a different neighborhood. One of the challenging differences is the level of engagement. A physical neighborhood’s “get together” happens at a specific time in a specific place and while you can do that online, most of the interaction happens at different times depending upon when they are online. It also often happens on Facebook, blog, Twitter etc., while they are also doing something else like watching TV, driving, or talking on the phone. So you can see the challenge to get their total attention--doable just more challenging. Those are just a few of the similarities and differences.

2. What are the qualities that you feel are important for an online campus pastor to possess? How are the same/different than that of an "in person" campus or venue?

I think it's very easy when looking for an online campus pastor to seek someone technical rather than pastoral. While having some knowledge of technology, Web 2.0, and social media is important, the Internet Campus pastor's heart must beat for people. They must be pastors first and digerati second. Online pastors deal with real people with very real hearts that want to experience God in a genuine way. Technology is simply a method to help people reach their God-potential--a vehicle to carry people closer to Christ worldwide. The online pastor needs to embrace this and allow the technological side to take care of itself. Online campus pastors and physical campus pastors are identical in purpose with each seeking to connect people with God and each other through various means. I think the primary difference, albeit obvious, is that the online campus must be content with genuine community happening without physical presence. The online campus pastor must purposefully seek out ways to leverage digital means to accomplish what the pastor at a physical campus can do with a handshake or a hug. However, as the lines blur between physical friends and online friends, the differences between these types of campus pastors will continue to diminish.

3. You told me that one of the greatest challenges about an Internet campus is being able to shape the environment for the participant because they can log in from such a diverse set of locations. Is there anything new that you have developed as a part of the campus that helps to address that challenge? If so, what does that look like?

While we can't control the environment on the guest's side, we certainly help by being intentional with our own. From the minute you join the Flamingo Road Church Internet campus experience, you are immersed in who we are as a church. We have designed our Internet campus page to be simple, with fewer potential distractions, while still remaining informative, welcoming, and practical. In addition, we believe that the chat experience during service helps in this. Many would argue that chat during services, in fact, causes distractions. We have experienced the opposite. Having our chat operational during the service allows guests to ask questions, seek prayer, and request clarification during the teaching time. We have talked to so many people online that are grateful for the chat feature. They tell us it provides instant answers and better understanding of what they are experiencing. Thus, the environment, however chaotic or varied on the guest's end, becomes enriched and somewhat of a controllable constant from our side.

Each guest that logs in needs to feel less like they are sitting in front of a laptop and more like they are on the front row worshiping with the world. Through the use of the chat room, simple and concise page elements, and a community forum, guests quickly see themselves as attending church regardless of their particular physical location.

We have also increased our intentionality about how we communicate with the Internet campus. I will from time to time call out what they “might” be doing and ask them to turn off the TV or to stop checking email or come in out of the kitchen in an effort to TEACH them what it means to worship God. This idea came from one of our physical campuses when we were trying to TEACH them what worship was suppose to look like and we had our staff model it.

We are working on a couple of things such as an Internet campus specific pre-teaching that would help them with what it should look like. In a physical campus you might say please turn off your cell phones in the internet campus you might have the slide say, “Have a pad and pencil with you so that when you think of something you need to do you can write it down and NOT be tempted to jump up and do it.” We are also going to be adding a way for them to see others who are attending the Internet campus, while at first they may not be able to communicate with them they WILL be able to see how to worship online by modeling.

4. What is new about the multi-site ministry at Flamingo Road since we last talked?

On the multi-site front, we have started a new campus in Pensacola, Florida. The campus, which started last Easter, meets in a community college theater. The teaching is done via HD video and the campus continues to grow and develop.

We have also started life-development online. On Saturday nights, we have “iKids,” an online ministry for kids and their parents. On Wednesday nights, we have “theRush,” an online ministry for students. If we expect adults to do service online, we can expect it in their families, as well.

We are starting to have breakthrough attendance at some of our campuses and are dreaming about a larger international presence. We have a few places in mind but are waiting on a green light from God (money!) as well as relationships with future campus pastors.

We have spent some time wrestling with the differences between starting a campus small and starting big. The different ways in which you manage a campus depend on its size and the amount of time it needs from me, as the lead pastor.

Our Hallandale campus has proven to us that one of the great ways to bring renewal or rebirth to old and dying churches is through multi-site. Hallandale-FRC (formally First Baptist of Hallandale) had an attendance of 35-50 on the weekend and less than two years later there are 800. A great way for some of the older churches that have had huge impacts in the past to be a part of ministry for the next generation. We are praying for these opportunities.

5. What have I not asked that I should have?

Leadership: there is a huge difference in leading a multi-site church compared to a one-campus church.

Finance: the cost of multi-site and a financial model to have several campuses reaching unchurched people and to staff it.

Theological: there are those who believe that Internet campuses are not biblical.

Live vs. Video: while it may seem small there are huge philosophical differences between the two.

Check out the sidebar on the Multi-site Church Road Trip Blog that lists multisite churches with Internet Campuses.

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Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Multi-Site Churches Digital Multi-Site

4 Ways to List Multi-Site Locations

Leadership Network — 2009-08-08T19:20+00:00

How does your website communicate that it's a multi-site church, one church with multiple locations? I've found that there are (at least) 4 ways to list your campus locations:

List the campus locations in the pull-down navigation menu,
e.g. Real Life Fellowship with 5 locations:
List all campus locations on a full web page,
e.g. Willow Creek Community Church with 6 locations:
List all campus locations as a separate top navigation bar,
e.g. McLean Bible Church with 6 campuses:
List all campus locations in the middle of the home page,
e.g. The Oaks Fellowship with 3 locations:

Browse through this photo album to see 12+ church websites and how their campus locations are listed. As a church continues to extend its ministries and services to more campus locations through a multi-site church strategy, this affects the church's website design. Some questions to consider: Does the website design limit the number of locations? Are the locations and times easy to find from the home page? Can an average website visitor find the church's contact info?

Another way is to not list a church's multi-site locations at all, as in having a separate website for each campus location, like Bayside Church. Could it be that some people just want to know if the church is located close to where they live, rather than if a church is in multiple locations? What do you think? Which multi-site church website strategy do you think works well?

// DJ CHUANG, Leadership Community Director at Leadership Network

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Multi-Site Churches Digital Multi-Site

quick comment on trends with internet campuses

Leadership Network — 2009-07-31T18:32+00:00

Mac Lake of the Leading Multisite network held the camera for me as I took a few minutes to share about what I'm observing with churches launching internet campuses. Watch the video to hear about this trend with internet campuses, and add a comment below:

DJ Chuang, Director of Digital Initiatives at Leadership Network

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital Digital

ministry flows between multi-site campuses online and offline

Leadership Network — 2009-07-06T19:50+00:00

Found this blog post from Brandon Buckner, Internet Campus Director at McLean Bible Church (MBC.) This story of three people below shows how a church with multiple locations, both online and offline, can be used of God to reach people for Christ:

Katie, a single grade school teacher in PW County, attends three MBC services each week. Saturday night she attends the Tysons Campus. She enjoys the worship and teaching so much that she attends again Sunday morning via the Internet Campus from her home in Manassas. On Sunday nights, she also attends Frontline via the Internet Campus, where she is one of the most engaged members of the online community.

Three weeks ago, Katie was in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. Katherine, her best friend and a non-believer, came to visit her shortly after the accident. Seeing Katie laying there in the hospital, she made a promise to God. She told Him that if He got her friend through the accident, she would begin going to church. By God’s grace, Katie was out of bed the following day and scheduled to go home with only minor injuries. That very day, Katherine finally did something Katie had been trying to get her to do for months?she logged onto the Internet Campus. That morning, after Lon presented the Gospel, Katherine prayed to accept Christ. But the Lord had even bigger plans in mind, as the following week Katherine brought her younger brother to the Tysons Campus, where he too accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior.

Now, Katherine and her brother are regular attendees of the Tysons and Internet Campuses, with plans to attend the upcoming Christianity 101. Katie and Katherine express excitement on a weekly basis for the upcoming Prince William Campus, where they both hope to get plugged in as volunteers.

Hallelujah! And, to visually communicate the church's identity as one church with multiple locations, McLean Bible Church has recently re-done its corporate logo. Know of another great story of how an internet campus is ministering to people online and offline?

// DJ Chuang, Director at Leadership Network

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Multi-Site Churches Digital Multi-Site

Young megachurch pastors with blogs

Leadership Network — 2009-06-02T18:22+00:00

Got this question recently: "What are blogs of young megachurch pastors who preach with substantial content?" I'm not sure exactly what "substantial content" means, whether that refers to theological and doctrinal details, or a kind of transformational teaching like that of Bill Hybels.

The following blogs have been suggested:

Mark Driscoll http://theresurgence.com/md_blog
Matt Chandler http://hv.thevillagechurch.net/blog/hvpastor [updated]
Mark Batterson http://www.evotional.com/
Dave Ferguson http://daveferguson.org
Mac Lake http://www.maclakeonline.com
Troy Gramling http://www.troygramling.com/
Perry Noble http://www.perrynoble.com/
Craig Groeschel http://swerve.lifechurch.tv/
Steven Furtick http://www.stevenfurtick.com
Josh Harris http://joshharris.com
Bob Roberts www.glocal.net
Dino Rizzo http://www.dinorizzo.com/

What blog(s) would you add? And what makes content substantial?

// DJ CHUANG, Leadership Community Director at Leadership Network

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital Learnings

Twitter101: What Are Hashtags All About?

Leadership Network — 2009-04-28T08:28+00:00

You finally jumped into the Twittersphere. Well, maybe "jumped" is a bit generous. Most likely you were hounded into it by a zealous friend or staffer. The pressure was on and you reluctantly caved. So now what?

You successfully loaded up a semi-presentable photo of yourself to your Twitter profile, added a few followers and even successfully updated your status into the glaring white space of the "What Are You Doing?" box.

Then you scan the updates of those folks you've deemed worthy of following.

"I ate a bagel" declares a tweet from a friend across the country. "Thank you for sharing" you think to yourself, questioning why again you're doing this.

Then you see what looks like a typo. Someone sends an update that contains the tic-tac-toe board of confusion. The pound sign. A hashtag.

What is it? And why do folks use it?

Simply put, a hashtag is a way to classify your tweet so that others who may be interested in that same topic can search for tweets relating to that topic. In the example above, the recent conference Catalyst West had a hashtag of #catwest. Anyone attending the conference or following the events via tweets can search on that hashtag and all the tweets related to that topic show up in a search.

Say you wanted to follow the tweets for an event. Where do you go to follow the conversations?

One place to search for a topic such as this conference called #catwest is at Twitter Search. You simply put in the hashtag you're looking for and up pops up the stream of tweets relating to that.

When searching for a hashtag, here are the most common questions I hear:

Who assigns the hashtag for an event or topic?

As far as this author knows, there is no "official" hashtag assigner. What I've observed is that if it is your event, you can make one up. Typically they are short because tweets have only 140 characters and real estate is precious. If you attend an event and no one has created one, you can just start using a hashtag of your making and hope it catches on.

But what if I don't know the official hashtag?

Because Twitter is still the wild west, there is no official naming convention that would make it easy to guess at a hashtag. If the event producer is Twitter-savvy, they will announce on their conference site what the "official hashtag" to follow is. If not, you guess.

That is until last week, when a new site called Twubs was launched. It says "Hashtags Made Useful" and I must say, I liked using it because of the imprecision of hashtag assignments.

Using the example above for Catalyst West, some may use #catwest while others search #catalystwest and still others #catalystwest09. The beauty of Twubs, I found, was that if I searched for my lame guess, it still brought up the others (along the right side of the screen) under Related Twubs.

I also found it handy to have the pictures for that same event brought together, regardless of who posted them. Many folks could upload photos and as long as they contained the hashtag for that event, they were included.

But hashtags aren't only for events. They can surround topics as broad as current events or as specific as #stumin (student ministries) or #kidmin (children's ministry). The power of Twitter to bring together God-followers across the country is amazing. A new site called Twibes tries to bring together all the many categories of hashtags out there.

So there you have it. More that you ever wanted to know about Hashtags.

Now that you know a little more than when you started, how about checking out some of these sites and playing around with the little pound signs yourself.

You may surprise yourself at who you connect with.

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital

how to measure success at an Internet campus

Leadership Network — 2009-03-10T16:00+00:00

This is an interview with Anthony Burns, the Campus Director of HighImpactChurch.tv, which is the Internet campus of Richmond Community Church in Virginia.

Please share how your church started its Internet campus, and describe how a worship experience looks like.

HighImpactChurch.tv, the Internet Campus of Richmond Community Church began in January 2008. We here at RCC, looked at the Internet Campus as an extension of our multi-site vision. The Internet Campus allowed us to leverage the Internet to bring a modern worship experience to people at their computer anywhere in the world.

In the last year we have improved the streaming capability, overhauled the website and added many of our ministries to the campus. The Internet Campus is truly a campus; it has small groups, classes, and ministry happening on a daily/weekly basis.

The HighImpactChurch.tv experience is captured live from the Glen Allen Campus service every Sunday morning. We do break away during announcements and closing for Internet Campus specific material.

How has the Internet campus made a difference in someone's life?

HighImpactChurch.tv has changed my life for sure. As the Campus Director, I have been exposed to other cultures and countries that I may have not experienced if not for the Internet Campus. I have also met people from all around the world. The idea of connecting with someone from Europe or around the world through our Internet Campus is really exciting to me.

The Internet Campus has also changed other people’s lives too. We have had people attend classes where they learn about Jesus, the Church, and Faith. These classes help seekers and believers connect with God. We have also begun small groups where people from all around the world can connect on a weekly basis.

How do you define success? What results do you measure?

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital Digital

Greg Atkinson Tours LifeChurch.tv’s Internet Campus Studio

Leadership Network — 2009-01-10T23:25+00:00

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital Digital

Dan Ohlerking interviews internet campus pastors

Leadership Network — 2009-01-05T20:20+00:00

Dan Ohlerking visited about a dozen churches’ internet campus experiences (read posts part 1 and part 2) and also interviewed a handful of Internet campus pastors. He wrote up his interview notes, and here's an excerpt:

In my discussions with IC pastors, one of the biggest questions they’ve discussed is manpower. There’s a deceptiveness to how inexpensive it can be to do an internet campus. Sure, there are free tools like Mogulus that will let you do a lot, but there’s money involved if you want to do it without ads all over the screen for God-knows-what, or if you want to offer a technically great experience, not just a good one.

... As far as I’ve surmised, the primary difference between a live webcast and an internet campus is the interactive factor. So we’re looking at how chat will look for us.

... Another common message I’ve been hearing is the possibilities of online small group events targeting those attending internet campus.

... Lastly, one of the huge facets of the internet campus (based on discussions with the other IC pastors out there) is simply the pastoring aspect.

Read his entire post for lessons learned and the first steps toward turning Healing Place Church’s live webcast into an actual internet campus experience.

He asks 3 great questions at the end of his post:

Have you visited any church services online?
Have you been to an internet campus? What did you think?
What do you think are the benefits/risks involved in people coming to church online as opposed to physically in person.

So, how would you answer?

-- posted with permission by DJ Chuang, Director at Leadership Network

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital Digital

50 reasons to attend Innovation3 Gathering

Leadership Network — 2008-12-08T21:39+00:00

In the midst of the holiday season, many count down the days to Christmas. There's another count down that's starting today.

We are just 50 days away from the Innovation³ Gathering on January 27-28, 2009 in Dallas!

Every day leading up to the Innovation³ Gathering, we will count down 50 reasons for why you must attend, one reason for every day!

Reason #50: No stump speeches. Read all the reasons as they're posted at the Innovation³ blog.

And, look at the website www.innovation3gathering.com for more details and register online. Bring a team so you can share the experience and get best rates!

Browse the entire list of 50 reasons to attend Innovation³ Gathering as the count down continues...

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Books Digital Learnings

how to do ministry in an Internet campus

Leadership Network — 2008-11-18T17:07+00:00

In the coming weeks, we're inviting Internet campus pastors from a different churches to answer commonly asked questions.

For this edition, I asked Brad Singleton, Internet Campus Director at Seacoast Church to respond to this:

How do you do 'the ministry stuff' at an Internet campus, e.g. small groups, discipleship, baptism, communion?

Here's Brad's response:

"Wow, that’s kind of the tough one. It’s easy to get a website with some streaming video going or even have a chatroom on the page, but ministry online is the kind of stuff people write mean blog posts about. Even so here are a few things we are doing and plan to do.
First of all its important to know that one of the earliest and most ongoing responsibilities of an internet campus pastor is to be a translator. I’ve felt very strongly about this since I started about a year ago. My job is to translate the DNA of Seacoast Church into an online campus. That means that the values, convictions, purposes, mission, and even the environmental feel of Seacoast should be felt at the Internet Campus. For us that is most evident in our response time. It also happens to be the one thing that make us most different from the other great internet campuses out there.

When it comes to ministry online, it’s the same mission, different means. For instance, we just recently launched our first online small group. Small groups are a big deal for us so it was important to start doing small groups online as well. Our “real life” groups usually seem to accomplish two things: connection with other believers and personal growth, so I’m pushing that online as well. I’ve set up a private network on Ning, to help with the connection element. Online groups need a little prodding so I post questions (kind of like icebreakers) to our forum so everyone can get to know each other. Then when we meet we are using a video based curriculum, so Mogulus has provided the playback control I need and the chat window for us to talk.

In addition to discipleship through small groups we also have a church wide online learning tool, mynextsteps.org (under redevelopment).

In dealing with early church traditions like baptism and communion we have to really take a step back and look at what is important about these elements of our faith. With baptism we see the important thing is a public profession of faith, the symbolism found in immersion, and the celebration of a new life in Christ. That means it doesn’t have to be me in the water with them. It could be a local pastor or even another Christian friend in the area. So far we have done baptism through our Seacoast @Home groups, but I think Flamingo Road really led the way with Alyssa's Online Baptism. That’s a good model to follow.

With communion, the important thing is that believers come with a pure heart, they remember what Christ did for us, and understand the symbolism of the elements. So we free up people to take communion at home. It’s not like Seacoast is buying a special “holy bread” to use at the campuses. We buy bread that some people might serve with lasagna. So I believe internet campus Seacoasters can use whatever bread/cracker along with wine/juice that will help them to remember what Christ did for us.

Of course, like Mark Batterson says, ”It’s all an experiment.” We will keep having church online until we find out that it doesn’t work, but for now it comes down to this: reaching people, and helping them become fully devoted followers of Christ. We have the Internet Campus because people are online. It’s really that simple." [nb: emphasis added is mine.]

Thank you, Brad, for sharing about how Seacoast is using its Internet campus to minister to people online!

To be sure, there are many other ways to do ministry at an Internet campus, and this is just one working example. What I've found so far is that every Internet campus has its own customized way of presenting the worship experience and doing additional ministries. There's not a cookie-cutter solution (yet?).

Any additional questions you'd like to ask about this topic?

-- DJ CHUANG, Director at Leadership Network

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital Digital

internet campus webinar - show notes

Leadership Network — 2008-11-12T22:06+00:00

Thanks to all of you who joined us on the "A Closer Look at Internet Campuses" webinar today! Special thanks to our guests, Brandon Donaldson (LifeChurch.tv) and Brian Vasil (Flamingo Road Church); both are internet campus pastors.

We had 139 participants on the webinar, showing there's many interested in running an internet campus. There were 100+ of questions submitted and we couldn't get to all of them. We'll answer some of those questions here in the coming weeks here at the Digital @ Leadership Network blog and continue the conversation.

These show notes has links to items mentioned during the webinar and other related links:

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, a book by Seth Godin about how groups of connected people effect change
OPEN, LifeChurch.tv's free content and resources for churches
Online community - frccommunity.com - social network for Flamingo Road Church's Internet campus
Alyssa's Online Baptism - first online baptism at FRC Internet campus; direct link to video, to blog post
LifeChurch.tv Internet Campus blog and
FRC Internet Campus blog
The Digital Sanctuary - Cynthia Ware

Author: Leadership Network

Topics: Digital Digital

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