15,000+ visitors April 16, 2008
Posted by Steve in : Breaking News, Methods & Strategies, The Cultural Conversation, Culture and Faith , add a commentToday , I surpassed 15,000 visitors to my blog (since I installed my NEO counter more than a year ago). What are all these people doing coming to my blog? What do they find interesting? The most amazing thing to me is that those visitors come from more than 129 countries. The largest visitor groups hail from:
USA 11,648
Canada 514
United Kingdom 502
Germany 234
France 220
Australia 185
Brazile 102
Cote D’Ivoire 66
The most interesting visitors hail from:
Burkina Faso 20
Kenya 16
Iran 13
Iraq 6
Guinea 4
Rwanda 4
Now Get 20 Million Minutes By Email! March 6, 2008
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Are you flying around all week at work and would rather have any new posts from 20 Million Minutes sent directly to you by email or RSS? After a number of requests, we have now added both of those options to the 20 Million Minutes blog! All of our feeds have been migrated to Feedburner, which provides better options for you.
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Podcasting 101 December 4, 2006
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Over the last year, our church, Park Community Church in Chicago has made a huge commitment to growing our internet presence as an “on ramp” for many people who check out Park before ever stepping in our doors. We are also cognizant of all the people who may miss a week or want to hear a message a second time.One of our top priorities has been to provide our messages in many formats. We have upgraded our technology, our team, and our know-how, and have begun podcasting our Sunday messages. In October and November 2006, we had about 3,900 downloads of audio and video messages from our site and from I-Tunes — more than 64 downloads a day on average!
As I began to research how to do this last year and I went on the web, (more…)
Get 20 Million Minutes by Email or RSS! November 27, 2006
Posted by Steve in : Weblog , 1 comment so farAre you flying around all week at work and would rather have any new posts from 20 Million Minutes sent directly to you by email or RSS? After a number of requests, we have now added both of those options to the 20 Million Minutes blog! All of our feeds have been migrated to Feedburner, which provides better options for you.
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You can get an email sent to you whenever there is a new post for Park leaders. Just click here to go the the Feedburner feed and choose the “Get 20 Million Minutes delivered by email” option in the upper right hand corner. Then, whenever a post is made to this blog, you will receive an email, right to your desktop. It is that simple!
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Podcasting for Churches: Lessons from the Field August 4, 2006
Posted by Steve in : Uncategorized, Weblog, Inside Park, Technology , add a commentAbout six months ago, the communications team that I am a part of at Park Community Church began to set out on a journey to update our website. Key elements of the update included a new home page, an online calendar, a summary of events that we call “the Quick Six” and the ability to offer people multiple ways to get our Sunday message.
Today I’d like to report on our success to date. On the multi-message delivery methods, we revised our audio messages and created video files of each Sunday. We have found that Sony Sound Forge (audio) and Sony Vegas 6 (video) have given us unbelieveably clear sound and video with smaller files.
We relaunched the new site on June 15th and have tracked our website downloads since then. We were only able to install a statistics package on our Feedburner feed 7 days ago. Here are the statistics…………..
From the website:
1,607 downloads in 7 weeks, almost evenly split audio versus video, which work out to an average of 229 website downloads per week
From I-Tunes:
157 downloads in seven days
The lessons that we have been learning:
People want different venues to get their message. We know that people check out our church by listening to our messages. We know that people who miss a Sunday listen or view the message via the website. We also know that others who used to go to Park get the message that way.
If you build it, they will come. We spent a considerable amount of time and effort to design and develop the message downloading, (including sound and video quality) not knowing whether anyone would utilize the technology. Our website users showed us that they appreciate easy and useful information.
