Communications Resources
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Top Tips: Google it! | ||
| Google, the company behind arguably the world’s most popular search engine, have developed a number of free services that could help you in your church communications. | |||
| FREE | Download now | ||
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Getting the Message Across | ||
| The do's and don'ts of writing church newsletters - an invaluable guide for all involved in this work. Author: Richard Littledale | |||
| £3.50 | Buy now from our Web Store | BU317 | |
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Top Tips: Blogging Your Church | ||
| Blogging is a phenomenom that has really taken off in the last couple of years. The word blog is simply an abbreviation of “weblog,” a term used to describe a web sites that is updated frequently, rather like an on-line journal. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT01 | |
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Top Tips: Communications Planning | ||
| Getting across the gospel message and important information through communications both in your church and out in the community is not easy. Here is BUGB Head of Communications Amanda Allchorn’s top tips on local church communications planning. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT02 | |
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Top Tips: Website Dos and Donts | ||
| Many people use the internet for finding out information, and this includes finding out information on local churches. In fact, wherever I’ve been living, when I first move there, I’ve always looked on the internet to see what churches were in the area, | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT03 | |
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Top Tips: Setting up a website | ||
| You might be thinking, ‘I want a website, but I have no idea how!’. Well this Top Tips will hopefully help you understand what is involved, and also help you realise that it might not be as complicated as you may think! | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT04 | |
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Top Tips: Creating a good looking website, in my opinion! | ||
| Ok, so you’ve made the decision to have a website, good! You’ve found an inner-ability of web design that you never knew you had. Good. Or maybe you’ve found someone else who has that ability. Also good. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT05 | |
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Top Tips: Writing for the Web | ||
| Compared to the design and technical aspects of having a website for your church, the written content appears far easier. Writing for the internet however is different from writing a book or for a magazine as people read and take in information differen | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT06 | |
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Top Tips: Photography in Church | ||
| We live in an image dominated society. A good photograph can attract people toread your publication, read about your church in the newspaper or visit your website. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT07 | |
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Top Tips: Graphic Design Do's and Dont's | ||
| Graphic Design is a wonderful thing. Text, colours and images can have a very powerful impact on the world around us. But when its done badly, the consequences can often have unexpected results. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT08 | |
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Top Tips: Copyright | ||
| Copyright in church can be a confusing issue. Chris Williams is Sales Director for Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI). CCLI represents over 7,500 catalogues of music including over 275,000 hymns and worship songs. Here Chris answers some | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT09 | |
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Top Tips: Crisis Media | ||
| From time to time things go wrong in the local church, there might be a local disaster or tragedy. At times like this the local church can feel very vulnerable and do not always know how to cope with media attention. (Newspapers, radio, TV, online media). | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT10 | |
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Top Tips: Writing a Press Release | ||
| Getting positive news into the local media about what is happening in your church gives you a great opportunity to engage your community in what you are doing and spread the gospel message. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT11 | |
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Top Tips: Working with the media | ||
| Building relationships with local media can help enormously in getting coverage of what your church or Christian organisation is doing. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT12 | |
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Top Tips: Pictures and Videos online | ||
| Putting pictures and video online can be a great way to spread news about your church and the gospel message. Here our technology expert, Ian Britton, explains how to use the popular video and photography websites You Tube and Flickr. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT13 | |
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Top Tips: Useful Web Links | ||
| Here are ten fun, inspiring and useful websites recommended by us and subscribers of E-News Sweep that may be of use to you personally and in your church communications. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT14 | |
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Top Tips: Putting Sermons Online | ||
| Have you ever thought about putting audio recordings of your church’s sermons on the internet? Not sure how to do it? Here is a very basic guide of how to do it. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT15 | |
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Top Tips: Social Networks | ||
| Did you know that nearly 18 million people in the UK have a Facebook account? That's almost a quarter of the population. Of those 18 million people, 2.5 million are over 40 years old and 9.4 million are female. Only 64,000 have said on their profile that | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT16 | |
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Top Tips: External Noticeboards | ||
| Tips to improve your external noticeboards | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT17 | |
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Top Tips: Editing a Church Magazine | ||
| So you’ve been asked to take over a flagging church magazine, or even set one up for the first time – and you have a limited budget. Where do you start? Church magazine editor Jill Arrowsmith offers some advice. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT18 | |
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Top Tips: Community magazines | ||
| One way of promoting a positive image of the church is to set up a community magazine. Caroline Masom, who has helped to do just that, explains how to go about it. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT19 | |
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Top Tips: Notice Sheets | ||
| Notice sheets and newsletters are important to get right - a sheet that is full of unhelpful jargon and laid out without due care and attention could be off-putting to visitors to your church. Click below to read more. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT20 | |
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Top Tips: Enabling Missionary Disciples.....Home Mission! | ||
| This guide brings together quick links to find support, resources, information and ideas to promote Home Mission in your busy, local church. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT21 | |
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Top Tips: Using PowerPoint in Church | ||
| The PowerPoint presentation has been in existence for 25 years. In this Top Tips, we look at how to make a good PowerPoint presentation, especially for use in church. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT22 | |
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Events Planning | ||
| In running an event there are many things to consider in the planning phase to help ensure the event goes smoothly. | |||
| FREE | Download now | TT23 | |