If you’ve ever attended one of my workshops or presentations, I will typically start by asking the crowd to identify the technology being used in this photo. I’ve heard everything from folding machine, printing press, to paper shredder. If you are over the age of 45, you are more than likely able to identify it as a mimeograph machine. Continue Reading…
One of the greatest missed opportunities that churches overlook is with the online church shopper. Unfortunately, most churches aren’t paying attention to their website analytics. For most mainline American churches, traffic reports, or analytics, will tell you a story – a significant amount of your website traffic, in some cases most, is coming from the first time visitor seeking a new church home.
Let me first define what I mean by online church shopper. The typical online church shopper is either an individual or couple that has recently moved to a community and is seeking a new church home, or it’s an individual or couple who feels wronged or is unhappy with their current church and is seeking a new church home. Continue Reading…
For a number of years, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of how the work of web architects and building architects merge. Meaning, how do we translate the visual cues that the visitor may experience on your website to the physical architecture of your building? Cracking this nut creates an enormous opportunity for churches.
In 2007, I had the opportunity to sit-in on the keynote presentation at the IA Summit in Las Vegas. Joshua Prince-Ramus was the speaker, he’s an acclaimed architect who has worked on such buildings as the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas and the Seattle Central Library. Prince-Ramus shared how he used data visualization analysis to develop the design for the Seattle Central Library project – meaning, the architectural blueprint of the building is the visual representation of data collected. Continue Reading…
As many of you know, I am co-founder of M2LIVE.org. Since 2008, we have been resourcing pastors and church volunteers who are interested in enhancing their ministry using the latest in web and social media technology.
At the end of your rope?
M2LIVE is unique in that we create opportunities for the most innovative web evangelists to share how they are using the tools of the web and social media in their churches. Our single day events equip church leaders and volunteers to create more appealing and usable church websites, and grow their ministry using the latest in social media technology. Here are a few topics we will cover:
If you are a church leader and would like to speak about scheduling a training event in your area, please contact me. I appreciate your consideration.
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Over the years, I’ve conducted hundreds of discovery interviews as a consultant. It may be a church communications audit one day, social media strategy, or full website redesign the next. All projects begin with a series of discovery sessions, or conversations where both project stakeholders and their constituency share who they are and what they do. This becomes the foundation for what is eventually created. Continue Reading…
Best described as a tech-toting evangelist for web and social media, Matt Carlisle consults with non-profits and faith groups to make the necessary changes to fully embrace new media.
