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Church Mobile Websites

Ekklesia 360 offers an iPhone ready website for your chuch.  More people have mobile phones than computers today and mobile web-ready phones are expected to grow by 50% over the next two years.  It will be increasingly important for churches and ministries to offer a mobile experience to ...
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Website Wisdom - New research, cooperative reveal best practices for churches

Pick up a copy of Your Church magazine, part of Christianity Today in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue to read Website Wisdom - New research, cooperative reveal best practices for churches written by Monk Development CEO Drew Goodmanson. The article begins: Research conducted earlier this year, which ...
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The Shape of the Future - A four-part ministry Web strategy.

Read The Shape of the Future - A four-part ministry Web strategy in the Fall 2009 Outcomes Magazine, written by Monk Development CEO Drew Goodmanson.  Outcomes is a quarterly magazine from the Christian Leadership Alliance.  Here's how it begins: "We live in a time when technological ...
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Cobblestone Release 0.2.6

We are excited to announce that Cobblestone 0.2.6 went live today. Release Notes:- Event Mapping & Locations- Member Mapping- Event export into Outlook, iCal, etc.- Locations Manager- Site Admins List and Edit- CMS and Cobblestone can now have their own Site Admins.- Notification Settings for ...
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The Truth about Church Websites and Effective Online Outreach

We have all heard about the importance of a church website, the craze of social networking and the need for pastors to blog. But how effective are these strategies really in being missional and gathering people? Learn from a 2009 study on ‘The State of the Church Online: Websites & ...
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Breakout Session: Beyond the Web 2.0 Noise: How to use the Internet to Disciple & Create Real Community

What is all this with Web 2.0? The noise of social networking and private virtual communities continues to grow. Yet, we are still very early on in understanding what churches are doing effectively online in these areas. Are churches really able to gather people, create community and foster ...
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Follow us on Twitter

Follow what is happening at Monk Development on Twitter: Ekklesia 360 (http://twitter.com/ekklesia360) Cobblestone Community Network (http://twitter.com/cobblestonecn) Monk Development (http://twitter.com/MonkDev) We look forward to keeping you updated with the latest happenings at ...
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Church Internet Presence Management

Monk Development has begun a shift from a simple Content Management provider to an Internet Presence Management company. What is the difference? Most Content Management Systems (CMS) focus on managing the content to publish to a client’s website. “If no one visits your award-winning ...
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Interview: Drew Goodmanson

Drew Goodmanson (CEO of Monk Development) was interviewed prior to his speaking at the Echo Church Media Conference.  Here is a exerpt: ECHO: Tell us a little bit about the State of the Church Online project. DG: The State of the Church Online project was created to answer the question ...
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Another Satisfied Ekklesia Client

"Monk Development has by far exceeded my expectations of what a website development company can and should be!  We've had new visitors to our church as a result of our new website and the body appreciates how easy all of the features are to use.  From a Ministry Director standpoint, I ...
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