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Alrighty, here’s the fourth and final post in a series of posts inspired by REWORK.
If you haven’t been convinced to get a copy by now, you are just plan ignorant.
So since I’m a ‘church communications guy’ I thought I’d devote my last post some thoughts on REWORK-ing Church Communications.
Stop Being a Communicator, Start Being a [...]

After a number of requests about Park’s Twitter policy, I decided to share it with the rest of you: we don’t have one.
I’m not a huge fan of policies. They take too long to write out and shouldn’t really be an issue as long as you are managing what you are doing well.
That being said, [...]

A welcome distraction in my day is emails I receive from many of you about different things we do at Park. I’ve decided to share the emails and my responses with all of you since I’m sure it could serve you and your churches, as well as answer some questions you are asking!
Here goes…
From Jenni [...]

So this is pretty weird to be posting my own notes… Download a PDF of the Slides here.
HUGE thanks to everyone who came and supported, I hope it was a beneficial session for you guys! And a HUGE thanks to Jarbyco for hooking us up and letting us take questions via text! And, if you [...]

Dawn Nicole Baldwin is a strategist with a passion to help churches reach people more effectively. She lives this out as founder and lead strategist of AspireOne and as a senior partner with Jarbyco, a mobile communications firm specializing in live events that works with organizations such as Park Community Church, Lifechurch.tv and Youth Specialties.
A [...]

This was an awesome session moderated by Scott McClellan of Collide Magazine and featured Conway Edwards (CE), Cynthia Ware (CW), Scott Hodge (SH), Carlos Whittaker (LS), and Bobby Gruenewald (BG).
Does the church leadership conversation focus too much on innovation, just enough, etc?
CW: We’re not focusing enough on it because our culture is changing [...]

John Dyer lives in Irving, TX with his beautiful wife and awesome new son. He works at Dallas Seminary as the director of web development (meaning “main code guy”) where he also earned a theology degree. He is actively involved in several open source web projects, builds ministry resources such as www.bestcommentaries.com, and blogs about technology [...]

About Dawn Nicole Baldwin
Dawn Nicole Baldwin is a strategist with a passion to help churches reach people more effectively. She lives this out as founder and lead strategist of AspireOne and as a senior partner with Jarbyco, a mobile communications firm specializing in live events that works with organizations such as Park Community Church, Lifechurch.tv and [...]

It was May 2005.
I was working at Riverside Community Church in Peoria, IL. I was only a few years into my career as a Director of Communications. I had no clue what I was doing. Experience was being my educator and I spent a lot of time learning from my mistakes.
A fellow communications guy who was a mentor/big [...]

Wrapping up this week’s series of posts on communications on a budget with what I believe is one of the most effective means of communication. And, what’s better, you don’t have to do any work and don’t have to pay a dime for it. How’s that for an effective way to communicate on a budget?
Although [...]

Depending on your feelings about the outcome of the election, you may be looking more critically at your church budget… so here’s another way to communicate on a budget: Social Networking
Depending on how “connected” people in your church are, social networking is another great, inexpensive way to communicate on a budget.
Why re-invent the wheel? Go [...]

One easy way to do communications on a budget is by going ‘green.’
Less paper means a savings both to your church budget, and to the environment.
And in the day and age in which we live, being environmentally conscious is not
only smart it’s something people care about. And when you show you care about
something that [...]