Churchsite Chat is a two-way discussion list for church webmasters and site administrators.
It offers the chance to discuss any issue relating to constructing or maintaining a church website, with a particular emphasis on effective communication and how to use church pages
to reach non-Christians. Also very welcome are those considering or planning
a future church site, and site administrators who use church template-site
providers. Subscribe here:
If you don't want to handle too many emails, sign up, then go to 'my preferences' and select either the 'digest' version, or 'read on the web'. Being a member will allow you to check the growing listing of resources added to the
Bookmarks page by members. Please add good links to any of the subject areas provided.
Church webmasters will also be interested in our
60+ Tips for effective church sites that can reach the community.
Guidelines
- The list welcomes all webmasters from Trinitarian churches of any denomination.
- It's a place where we can share and showcase ideas which are reaching our community through a church-site. It's a safe place to make suggestions about strategies that could work, or how to make them work better. Or ask for honest but friendly critique about our sites. Or anything to do with church pages.
- Please keep discussions on-subject and do not digress to doctrine, church practice, or anything else. Life is too short, and Jesus' last command was not 'argue about issues' but 'go into all the world'.
- Please show respect and sensitivity to the views and feelings of others. Also realize that not all may understand very technical terms, and some are second-language English speakers, so keep language short and easy.
- Please do not post prayer requests or forward virus warnings (almost always hoaxes), devotionals, or anything else which is off-subject. (If in doubt, ask the list owner.) Do not send attachments to the list, which will in any case be stripped out.
- Church webmasters are busy people, usually squeezing in their Web work among many other responsibilities. Please help us all by keeping the email load down:
- Don't send un-necessary emails which just say 'Amen, I agree', yet which do not add anything to the discussion.
- If a reply will only help or encourage the originator of the request, send it directly to him or her, and not the whole group (by pasting the appropriate email address into the 'to' section before sending).
- When replying to an email, delete all parts of the original message(s) which are not necessary for people to understand your reply. Usually you can do this by highlighting the unwanted text, then hitting any key.
- At the same time, don't feel threatened by lots of emails – learn to skim them quickly and delete those which don't apply to you. On many email programs, CTRL + D or a similar shortcut will delete an email in a fraction of a second. To cut down the number of emails you receive, you can subscribe to the 'Digest' version. This sends as a single daily email, any or all contributions to the list for that day. To get the Digest version, you will need to log in to YahooGroups, which means that you must create a 'profile' for yourself.
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