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New Logo for First Baptist Belton

After paying for stationary design utilizing our old logo, I was approached by one of our former interns (now a full-time staffer) with the idea of ditching our swoosh logo.  I was resistant.  I didn’t want to break our recognizability. Through a series of events, I was convinced that not only do we...

Rapid Change… in a Baptist church

Lately I have been spending more time on the communication half of my title, which has changed again.  I’m now known as the Director of Communication and Technology.  I like that it’s much shorter. So, we’re in the midst of implementing a new strategic plan, and I’ve never seen us...

Customer service fail, then win

I have contracted a local design studio to come up with a new identity package for our church.  We have just adopted a new mission and vision statement, and we’re making some big, sweeping changes all across the church.  I have been looking to update our communication pieces for a long time, and this...

AT&T Fail

I am typing this message while holding with AT&T.  I am about two hours into this call, and I’m getting more and more frustrated as time goes by.  I have one simple need: to set up an online account to view data usage on our one church-owned cell phone. We had about $80 of data charges on this...

Mobile version of church Web site

I was reading the Digital@LeadNet blog today, and DJ was talking about mobile versions of church Web sites.  I’ve been running a mobile version of fbcbelton.org for quite a while, but DJ spurred on some good ideas today. First, shame on me, I didn’t include service times on the site.  I fixed...

Matthew Irvine for President

This is clever.  Someone sent me this video today with this unknown candidate “Matthew Irvine” running for president.  I totally fell for it.  You can put in anyone’s name in this site and it gets embedded throughout the video.  That’s...

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