strategy – WELSTech

WELSTech’s month of meetings continues with an interview of New Ulmer, Brian Fischer, who shares his strategic planning experiences in business and the church. Sallie schools Martin on hashtags, and, as usual, they both share some interesting internet resources you can use in your ministry today.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 50:11 — 45.9MB)

The interview and discussion:

Strategic planning – Brian Fischer, lay member of St. Paul’s, New Ulm, MN and owner of New Ulm’s Design Home Center, visits the WELS Technology West offices to chat with martin and Sallie about a method he uses to facilitate strategic planning, both in the church as well as in the business setting. At it’s core are three important questions:

How are we doing?
Where are we going?
How do we get there?

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Episode 516 – We welcome Prof. Rachel Feld back to WELSTech to talk about meetings in the school setting. Release date: Wednesday, September 27.

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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!

Podcast: Download (Duration: 50:04 — 45.8MB)

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.

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