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Communications
Communications includes exchange of information with church members as well as with the general public and public groups. Pages linked below can help you procude better materials for both internal and external target audiences.
- Basic Press Outreach for Not-for-Profit and Public Sector Organizations
- Ban Christian jargon - updated 2/20/2010
- Church web pages for the unchurched
- Communicating with low literates
- "Communication Quality and Church Size", (Christian Computing)
- Communications & Technology in the Local Church
[2003, 2004 Dual District training] - Communications Resourcing Team
- Communicator: Resources
- Communicators Guidebook
- "Connecting the Disconnected Church" (Christian Computing)
- E-communications (UMC) - new 2/20/2010
- Effective church press releases
- Effective Web Ministry Notes (Blog)
- Grammar and punctuation - Christian house
- Igniting Ministry
- Marketing mistakes churches should avoid
- Online Outreach
- Press Release tips and guidelines
- Pyromarketing for churches
- Signage Sentence Sermons
- TechShop (UMCom)
- UMC Web Ministry
- UM Graphics Library
- United Methodist Communications (UMCom)
- United Methodist "Newsscope" newsletter archive
- Web Developer resources - part 1 [2003 District Training]
- Web Developer resources - part 2 [2005 District Training]
- Web marketing checklist for Ministry [PDF file]
- Web ministry (UMCom) - updated 2/20/2010
- What other UM Communicators are doing (examples)
- Wired for Ministry (Interpreter Magazine)
- Writing for non-Christians
- Writing great headlines, subheads, and link text
- How users read on the Web (with an example of how to improve your text)
