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Fanny Crosby is most notable for being the blind woman who wrote over 8,000 hymns. That’s right—8,000. Crosby was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1975. She’s been described as the ‘mother of modern congregational singing,’ which leads us to wonder what modern worship services would look like without her.Her style of hymn writing was considered overly simplistic for some, but ultimately that simplicity is what led to their popularity. Overly repetitive at times or too ...

We’ve got a few new resources added to the Church Marketing Directory:Sunday Magazine – A magazine about the creative process of Sunday mornings. It’s about the philosophy of creativity in our church services.Ministry Ops – Lets you create beautiful sites for media content. Upload one file and it’s converted for web streaming, podcasting, mobile (iOS, Android) and HD.Signs Plus – Signs Plus is a church sign manufacturer offering custom changeable copy signs, LED church signs and s...

This is part five in our Copy Matters series.A few years ago, I had a position at a church where I was in charge of communications. As the church grew, I personally emailed about a hundred people each week. Most of these emails contained a request for an investment of time, so getting a “yes” was extremely important.The people you communicate with have overflowing inboxes (when they even look at it), and your definition of “important” is not necessarily the same as theirs. So how will...

Ken Blanchard once said that “feedback is the breakfast of champions.” If that is true, we have many champions in the making over in the Church Marketing Lab.Pastor Tanner is getting some good input on church branding:Lab member, cshehee has sparked a discussion on typeography:What are your thoughts on the “League Gothic” font?Alignment is the topic of discussion on John Papp’s post:You’re invited to head over to the Lab and add your voice to the discussion!

This is part three in our Copy Matters series.It can be hard to write when you don’t know what you’re writing. But sometimes that happens when you need a blurb for the bulletin right now and suddenly copy is flowing. Or someone else offered to make your job easier and write the copy for you, but they just wrote what they thought and didn’t answer the important questions.Before anyone sits down to write they have to answer some vital questions. Here are a few:What’s the Purpose?What’...

XOOPS FirePHP/Firebug package has been updated to version 1.7, and includes the latest FirePHP class. FirePHP is a Mozilla Firefox plugin/extension that merges with Firebug and enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call. All data is sent via response headers and will not interfere with the content on your page, therefore it is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON and XML responses are required.Frankblack was frustrated with debugging his AJAX app...

We ran into this article and felt we should share this as a reminder to all website owners to keep their WordPress install and plugins up to date. To our knowledge, none of our clients are running the “ToolsPack” plugin that I am aware of unless they installed it themselves, but we still HIGHLY recommend that you always update your WordPress and plugins regularly. It’s very simple to do in the admin area. Here is a video explaining how.Read the full article here.

Have you ever observed someone and noticed that they seem to exude a self-confidence, poise and suaveness that seeps into all that they do? Do you wonder why some people appear to have what it takes to succeed while others (perhaps you) struggle along trying to attain those traits? If this is you, or perhaps someone you know, then you may need to talk to the specialist at The Moxie Solution to learn about their classes at Cary Academy.The Moxie Solution is a new client of Page Progressive tha...

Page Progressive CEO, Daniel Trimpey, will be giving a 45 minute talk on the basics of a sound internet marketing strategy for small businesses on March 21st at 12PM at the Epic Realm Studio and via live internet stream. If you would like to attend in person or online, go here for more info. Both in person and online participants will be able to pose questions throughout the talk. The topic will be a broad overview of four areas of internet marketing:SEOLink BuildingPaid AdvertisingSocial Med...

The ImpressCMS Project is very happy to announce the release of ImpressCMS 1.3.2 Beta, aimed at testing several bugfixes and enhancements in the ImpressCMS 1.3.x series.