Want to know how you can improve your Church’s web site? Obviously, you can start surveying members and visitors alike to identify ways to improve. And you should always be listening to what people in the congregation are saying about the site. Do they find it helpful in finding a particular event? Can they identify the staff person responsible for that event? And do they get lost in the menus? These are all good questions to address, but what if you want to look harder? There is a web site the supports a formal review process. You run the review page and it generates a report that helps you focus on areas that need improvement. The link is:

www.internetevangelismday.com/church-site-design.php

And while you’re there, check out the web evangelism event, held the last Sunday in April of every year. It is a time to focus on evangelism through your Church’s web presence.

When you make a New Year’s Resolution, you should ask yourself whether you really are resolved to change. It is all too easy to intend to change, but not really commit to the process of change. And change is a process that takes hard work.

Can technology help us change? Yes, if we’re serious about it. But it takes a willingness to be held accountable for the hard work of changing, whether it be a bad habit or a new discipline. One idea would be to set up a page where people could enter their new year resolves and an eMail. The web site would then track those for 1 month, 2 months, and 3 months. At the end of that time, it could send out an email reminder to help reinforce the change. That way, people could hold themselves accountable to really change.