Walkin’ in Memphis

This week I am at the Episcopal Church Communicators Conference in Memphis TN. Tuesday we worked on a community garden, preparing it for spring planting. It is always great to see my fellow communicators, and even though i am not a “pure journalist”, I have always felt a kinship to this great group of people. [...]

Photo Op!

We are in the middle of migrating to a new website for the diocese. One thing we wanted to do was create new photos of the staff since the current ones are, shall we say, a little out of date. I obviously was showing my age when so few people appreciated or understood my “All [...]

Content Matters!

This has been a rather puzzling week. After leaving a message on a church answering machine (after hearing about when their Christmas Services are) and checking on some church websites that have no Lenten information, I ask myself “What are they missing?” Part of what we do here is to proclaim the Good News, but [...]

A very cool primer!

As part of Episcopal Communicators, we share ideas and tools to help us do our work better and more efficiently. A great tidbit, courtesy of Rise Thew Forrester of the Diocese of Northern Michigan, is this website link http://20thingsilearned.com. It is a wonderful and easy to read primer on browsers and the internet. It’s not [...]

We have video, too….

During convention, there will be video recordings of the entire proceedings as well as the Eucharist on Friday night. These videos will be posted on a delayed basis on http://ecwwvideo.org. In addition to the proceedings, we will also post the videos that were created for the history of the diocese as well as the videos [...]

Episcopal Village Mission Event

I have been asked to speak about social media at a conference in Portland this weekend. You can read more about this here.