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Apr
15/
08

HOW Design Conference : Design Evangelist

by Michael Buckingham
HOW Design Conference : Design Evangelist

As part of the partnership of CFCC and HOW, I will be speaking at the HOW Design Conference next month. Here’s a snapshot:

More and more, churches are recognizing the value of good design and marketing. From billboards and blogs to sermon…

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Apr
07/
08

Beauty from the rubble

by Michael Buckingham

I just returned from Chicago with my trend spotter (who also happens to be my son) where we met with Tim Schraeder, Director of Communications for Park Community Church, a church in the middle of a huge building project (with…

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Mar
27/
08

Read this before you lose it

by Michael Buckingham
Read this before you lose it

One of the more difficult aspects of being in a creative ministry is that some people don’t understand your ministry (we’ll get back to that word your in a little bit). We all live in our own worlds and while we…

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Mar
23/
08

How was Easter?

by Michael Buckingham

We recently talked about Easter being more than event…so how was yours? Was attendance up, down? Did you find any difference in those that attended?

And the most important question: were lives changed?

At my home church we do a 4 day…

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Mar
13/
08

It was all about the people

by Michael Buckingham

Nashville, even with snow on the ground, was excellent.

  • I was invited by Joe Sindorf to speak at NRB and was great to be able to hang out and be a part of his gig there. He pulled together a great panel with…

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Mar
13/
08

Excellent (vs. mediocre) resources

by Michael Buckingham
Excellent (vs. mediocre) resources

Here are the resources from the Excellence vs. Perfection Mediocrity session at NRB.

Purple Cow

The Big Moo

Made to Stick

A Technique for Producing Ideas

Church Marketing Lab

Design.Alltop

FaveUp

Enjoy…and please, if you have resources that you can’t live without, let us know!

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Feb
25/
08

How do you recruit a priest?

by Michael Buckingham
How do you recruit a priest?

Move over Sports Illustrated, there’s a new kid on the block. Introducing the Catholic Calendar, a calendar created in the hopes of showing the human side of priests and solict interest among teenagers and college students to the priesthood.

Maybe they…

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Feb
18/
08

24.fourteen conference

by Michael Buckingham

If God puts something across your path that may not be the picture of how you see your calling, take a step back and remember: it’s not about you.

I had the honor of doing just that this weekend as a…

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Jan
02/
08

Tools to manage those resolutions

by Michael Buckingham

This morning I asked you if you had set a resolution to be engaging, relevant and original in different areas of church marketing and communication.

If you made one of those resolutions, or others, LifeHacker talks about some tools that can help in…

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Dec
13/
07

What to do when people leave

by Michael Buckingham

It doesn’t matter how good your preach, how good you sing or how great the marketing materials we develop are…people are going to leave your church. So what should you do, ignore it? Panic?

I watch the stats of the blog,…

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