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Thoughts on improving ministry
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Better use of time on Sunday after service. Web2.0 the church website.
A few thoughts after the Sunday leadership meeting:
1. Appreciate the time we have after service:
Getting
people together for any NHF activity is difficult enough (for agreement
on time and finding appropriate space), that we as leadership should
leverage the time after service and a bit of fellowship, (
e.g. 4:30 - 5:30) for better use, since people's hearts are prepared
(by worship), social needs already occured (30 mins of fellowship
time), and most importantly, they are already here, and kids are looked
after by the community. Since any activity can get right down to
business, the single hour can mean a lot. This golden opportunity
should not be easily wasted.
I will offer the Women's group the option to reconsider and
claim this time zone first. (That single hour would be equivalent to a
4 hour version on a weekday, since the overhead of travel, waiting, and
ice-breaking always demand time.)
Otherwise, we can imagine Finance Committee to hold tax-related seminars, Communication to hold website-related seminars, ...
2. My thoughts on "Why the website is not effective"
Analogous to the pristine living room, vs the messy family room: Where will people go for most of their activities?
Currently our website serves mainly as an online pamphlet, with everything on it aimed for perfection.
If
you want people to use something, there must be a place for messyness,
that not everything has to be triply edited before posted. Hence the
great success of the very initial forums (way back with PHPBB 5 years
ago). Many of the originally active people on that forum no longer
bothers with website because this freedom has been taken away. We see
this over and over again: web users flock to blogging such as My Space,
while no one bothers with sites that only provide information. Even
for yourself, how often do you visit other Christian websites that have
more online material than you ever need?
Solution:
If
we want the website to be useful for the congregation, have a separate
region, for members only, where they can post anything without
moderation. Since it is shielded from public, like our family rooms
that we shut the doors when guests come, the moderation issue is not an
issue.
Ordered data, such as photo uploads, announcements, etc, can
stay in the neat "living room" area. Occasionally, when gems are
produced from the "family room", (e.g. someone's posting is very
insightful), that may be copied to the "living room" section for
display to the public.
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