Leadership Institute – Website Strategies

Posted on October 8, 2006 by Jim Walton

This is a continuation of my notes for the COR Leadership Institute. These are somewhat random but give some of the content of what was discussed. This session was given by Carol Johnson, Communications Director @ Lee’s Summit UMC, Lee’s Summit, MO and Brian Slezak, software developer for Web Empowered Church.

1000-1200 in attendance each weekend and Carol has a marketing and printing background. She attended the Leadership Institute last year, with others from her church, which gave them a place to start on re-designing their website using WEC.

Don’t Make Me Think – book www.stevekrug.com

Requirements are necessary, no matter the size

The Road Map
Functional Requirements (FR)
Business Requirements (BR)
System Requirements (SR)

Beware of scope creep! Set a goal and determine where you want to be at a certain time.

iStock photo.com

What problems will a CMS solve?

typo3.com
typo3.org
webempoweredchurch.com
webempoweredchurch.org
vinehosting.com

enterprise level content management software – open source

Agree on vision, starts with sr. pastor

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  1. Peter Schott on October 9th, 2006 11:10 am

    I’d love to see some more details on this post. I’ve been investigating using a CMS system for the church website redesign as it will give the capability to ministry owners to post their own news, events, and other items without needing someone to make the changes. Sounds like there’s some interesting discussion behind this post.

    -Pete