e-Newsletter - Volume 4, Number 72
Online Ministries Special-Interest Community's Summer Activities
by Bill Anderton

It is summer and many people are involved in vacations, out-of-town church conferences, picnics, summer camps, days at the lake, children out of school and hundreds of other distractions. Plus, it is just too darn hot to get too enthusiastic about doing much of anything.

Called “caniculares dies" (days of the dogs) in ancient Rome, we’re in the period of summer from the first week of July to the second week of August.

It is the dog days of summer.

However, the Effective Online Ministries Community is very active during the dog days. Grab a tall iced tea or lemonade, kick back and login to catch up with all of the summer activities in our online community. Click here to login.

Rookie Blog – Bill is in the middle of a series on “Cat Herding” about how to recruit and train volunteers to work on your website and social media efforts.

Webmaster Blog – On Tuesday, Bill will start a new multi-part series on “How to Write for Web Pages” which is a tutorial for developing better content-creation skills for church websites.

Goolge’s Webmaster Tutorial Videos – We’re now carrying Matt Cutts’ ongoing video series that teach basic concepts and techniques for getting the best results from search engines.

Moz’s Whiteboard Friday Videos – For the more advanced webmaster, Moz continues its very innovative and instructive Friday lectures on search engine optimization and inbound marketing that build traffic to your website.

Webmaster News - Always current, our webmaster news feed aggregates webmaster news from dozens of sources from around the country.