Top 5 Web2 Sites for Ministry

  1. Highrise: This Contact Relationship Management tool has a free version that will work for most ministries, and is very flexible for your preference of organizing people. With reminders, tasks, and tagging – as soon as you start using it you will realize the power it gives you to care and pastor the people and leaders around you.
  2. WordPress.org: As easy as it is to use a hosted blog service (blogger or Wordpress.com), Wordpress.org’s free blogging platform will give you a ministry website and blog that is very flexible and useful. With loads of helpful plugins from podPress for podcasting to SEO tools (Search Engine Optimization) that help your blog show up in search results – this is a no brainer.
  3. Google Analytics: Google’s free web statistics tracking site is the best bar none. And it is the best price of all, free!
  4. Meetup.com: Social Networking is everywhere, but sites like MySpace and even Facebook are just time sinks that require you to always be online to connect. Meetup.com is a social networking site totally focused on getting you offline to “meetup”. If your ministry wants to enter the public square in social networking, but in a way that helps people actually connect to you, this is the tool to use!
  5. Google Reader: as a pastor you need to keep up on world events, local events, and anything else you can get your hands on to be informed, to get illustrations, etc. Google Reader helps you subscribe and share the articles you read through RSS feed subscriptions from blogs, websites, etc. Having this database of information all sent to you, instead of having to go to all the different websites out there is a time saver. There are even sites like icerocket.com that will give you RSS feeds for searches you make, so you can stay apprised on issues relevant to your ministry.

June 3, 2007 | Filed Under Web Tools 

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2 Responses to “Top 5 Web2 Sites for Ministry”

  1. Steve Willis on August 28th, 2008 4:27 pm

    I’ve heard you guys talk about Highrise a couple of times on your podcast and it sounds helpful and intriguing. I’m wondering if there are any privacy issues with storing information about students on a web based solution?

    Steve

  2. Tony Steward on August 28th, 2008 5:28 pm

    Honestly, privacy of students information is as much of an issue if you leave the registration forms you gathered at church sitting out, as it is having on the web. In that case the web is much more secure.

    So, that to say there isn’t any more of a security issue then there ever has been - and the same level of care should continue to be taken.

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