392 – Care and Feeding

This week’s WELStech is quite a zoo as Martin shares digital outreach tips, there’s a BORAM on the loose, and the Education on Air archive is available. Tune in for all of this plus a milestone birthday for one of the zoo keepers!

The interview & discussion:

10 Tips for Cross-Cultural Digital Outreach – Martin is just back from Boise, ID where he assisted a congregation considering digital outreach strategies, particularly in their Vietnamese mission efforts. He boils down the efforts to 10 useful tips for anyone doing online outreach, locally and globally.

1. Identify digital content
2. Pick one priority at a time
3. Can you do more or do things differently?
4. Provide digital resources to members (friendship evangelism)
5. Capture and share stories
   • Revisit our interview on sharing your story with MLC Professor Mark Paustain
6. Provide digital resources to members for deeper study
7. Develop a social media strategy
8. Understand what websites are and aren’t
9. Develop an engagement strategy
10. Use a prospect management database

WELS now:

• Check out the 2015 Synod Convention event site for the newly released Book of Reports and Memorials
• Mark your calendar for upcoming graduation and call day events:
  • Martin Luther College – May 15 & 16
  • Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary – May 19-22

Picks of the week:

It’s Google Chrome plug-in week:

• Eye Dropper
• Scroll to Top

Community feedback:

• Google Apps for Education requires accreditation – What is your experience?
• America’s Changing Religious Landscape

Ministry resources:

Google’s Education on Air is archived. A few recommendations:

• Transforming learning with technology
• And you thought you knew everything about Forms!
• Set your sites on Sites

Featured videos:

The newest addition to the WELSTech Music playlist on YouTube is Koine’s Precious Lord, Take My Hand

Coming up on WELSTech:

Episode 393 -Pastor Emile Burgess from Trinity, Caldonia, WI, a presenter at WELSTech Conference 2015, joins us as we discuss church office apps. Watch and participate on 05/19/15 @ 4 pm Central – welstechlive.wels.net

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