Rob Bell’s Mars Hill Church Website Gets a Simple, Unique Makeover

Wow … Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan … where Rob Bell is pastor … definitely has an out-of-the-box church website design. [It’s fairly new, by the way.]

I expect this kind of unique design from something associated with Bell.

It’s minimalistic, very clean … and beautiful, in my opinion.

But I don’t think most churches could pull it off … to me, it resembles all I know about the church. It’s part of their DNA and represents them well.

What are your thoughts on the design?

[Found via Brenton Balvin]

February 20, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design

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Blogging Tip: Adam’s 4 Rules for Blogging

Adam McLane has some super advice for bloggers based on three-plus years of blogging … they were especially relevant to me and I thought I’d share his four rules for blogging:

Rule 1 – “Don’t ever write something you wouldn’t want your mother to read.”
Rule 2 – “Opinions are like … bellybuttons … everyone has one.”
Rule 3 – “Don’t throw gasoline on a fire.”
Rule 4 — “Beware of Trolls, learn to love Lurkers.”

Read the full post here, including his commentary on these rules.

February 18, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging Tips

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The Who, What, When, Where, How, and Why’s of Church Communications

I’m really thankful for my newspaper journalistic experience. And I’ve brought most of it into my job as a church communications director.

One of the first things you learn in journalism school (or class) is ensuring you answer (usually in the first paragraph) the “who, what, when, where, why and how” questions.

Churches would benefit greatly from answering these question in their communications — both inside and DEFINITELY outside the church.

But in my own experience, I know we naturally “assume” that everyone automatically knows “where” the annual men’s banquet will be held (yes, fellowship hall, I know) … and sometimes even “when.” Read more

February 18, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing

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Search the Bible On Your Cell Phone with Zondervan’s .Mobi Website

Although I talk about using technology for ministry a lot here, I admit there are a lot of areas I’m still learning about and exploring … one of the latest is creating websites geared directly for mobile devices, like cell phone, PDAs, etc. And with the .mobi domain now available, I’m seeing more and more pop up.

Jonathan Petersen, Zondervan’s Director of Internet Marketing, was kind of enough to send me some information about a couple of their “.mobi” websites to review. Read more

February 17, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design

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Get LinkedIn With Me

Lately, I’ve been receiving a lot of invitations to get LinkedIn on … uh … LinkedIn.

If you’re on this social networking site, which is geared for business-type relationships, and want to get networked, here’s my profile:

[ Update: If you’re looking for my email to invite me … it’s corymiller303@gmail.com ]

View Cory Miller's profile on LinkedIn

February 16, 2007 · Filed Under Links

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Two Great Quotes for the Week

I just had to pass on two great quotes I read this week …

First, from Matthew Stibe’s Bad Language blog (not what you think) … a quote from Samuel Beckett: Read more

February 16, 2007 · Filed Under Quotes

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