March 1, 2009 in
Conferences with
- 1:25 AM henryjz - visual storytelling is just that… storytelling… you don’t say everything in it
- 1:27 AM henryjz - conversation with Brent Gudgel and Dave Mahnes from Chronicle Project and Dan Portnoy
- 1:28 AM henryjz - dynamic sites make a big difference for ppl to come back
- 1:30 AM henryjz - Q: How do you get a story out there in a short amount of time with limiting resources? Is there a framework or structure you can set up without it becoming boring?
- 1:31 AM henryjz - just because you can tell a story doesn’t mean you should tell it all the time so that you have more time to put a quality story out there
- 1:32 AM henryjz - there is a diconnect between the decision makers and the artists many times… best time is to communicate with each other better
- 1:34 AM henryjz - on ministry websites what should you do and not do?
- 1:35 AM henryjz - don’t do black and white pics to add drama… e.g. “homeless people… awwww”
- 1:35 AM henryjz - don’t try to manipulate
- 1:36 AM henryjz - if you have dynamic engines (like Flash) make sure they are dynamic and get updated
- 1:37 AM henryjz - how do you get ppl to stay on your site?
- 1:38 AM henryjz - got to be clean: visual, white space, good fonts, invest in decent CSS, allow easy access to other areas
- 1:38 AM henryjz - make your site easy to update by those who aren’t “computer savvy”
- 1:42 AM henryjz - website needs to reflect your values… put the important thing on the front page and make clicking through a discovery process
- 1:43 AM henryjz - open source is great!
- 1:44 AM henryjz - what is best/cheapest way to get started when you don’t know computer talk
- 1:50 AM henryjz - figure out what you want first
- 1:50 AM henryjz - that’s called development
- 1:50 AM henryjz - then you can pay someone to build it all the way to using free sources to build yourself
- 1:51 AM henryjz - don’t let tech push your message… let your message push the tech
- 1:51 AM henryjz - if you really don’t do computer… use the money to have someone do it when you can
- 2:00 AM henryjz - work from the simple solution first and work up from there
- 2:05 AM henryjz - how do you promote streaming
- 2:06 AM henryjz - do you promote it, even?
- 2:08 AM henryjz - promoting digital media with traditional media
- 2:09 AM henryjz - business cards… pass them out
- 2:10 AM henryjz - where is your audience? what do they want? go where they are?
- 2:11 AM henryjz - what about twitter? what’s that all about?
- 2:11 AM henryjz - it’s social media so it has to be social
- 2:14 AM henryjz - twitter is like a cocktail party
- 2:18 AM henryjz - in going to twitter, what would be your line?
- 2:24 AM henryjz - when putting together a web presence, you need to find out the relaitonships
- 2:28 AM henryjz - Orbiting the Giant Hairball… book on communicating creative process to management
- 2:31 AM henryjz - there also ways to use mobile to interact with your audience… it’s growing
- 2:33 AM henryjz - Mobile Cause is a way to set up faith-based giving via mobile… because mobile service carriers have waived all fees for non-profit giving
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