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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 [...]

Texting has certainly changed the way we communicate. I’m notorious for not answering my cell phone. One of my friends’ voicemail  says, “Don’t leave me a message I don’t check them, send me a text.”
I think the only person I talk to on the phone for longer than 10 minutes is my mom. And that’s [...]

There’s people on every end of the spectrum when it comes to social media.
Mastering social media involves developing a strategy.
You cannot be a guru, you have to be a student and a learner when it comes to social media, web, and communications.
People using social media, texting, Facebook and Twitter is not a small percentage of [...]

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 [...]

Drew has a passion to help churches use technology to do outreach, build community and advance the Gospel.
2,600 churches use Monk Development technology.

I’ll post Drew’s notes on this when I get them, they will be more accurate than mine!
Are church websites effective tools for outreach and evangelism?

John 17:18… as you have sent them [...]

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 [...]

Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and is co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an internet strategy and development company. Drew often speaks at conferences about how churches can use the internet, his blog is recognized as one of the Top Church Blogs, he wrote a chapter in Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology [...]

The Great Commission.
At the end of the day, no matter what capacity you serve in the Church or in ministry, that is why we do what we do.
The “world” as we know it has changed.
We no longer need to go to the world to reach the world.
Well, of course we still need people “going” [...]

Kind of.
Today I made my blogging debut on ChurchMarketingSucks.com where I discuss “To Text or Not To Text.”
Check it out!

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about our “Communications Revolution” at Park.
If you are a newer reader, I’ve been blogging about how we’ve changed the way we communicate at Park: using texting, updating our logo, and moving to doing a monthly program instead of a weekly.
Today I want to talk to you about how [...]