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[Photo credit: Vintage Wedding Postcard ~ Bride & Groom , on Flickr] So you’ve decided to start a blog – good for you! Blogs are important ways for you to build a faithful following and enrich your site with valuable content. But before you open up your first free Blogger or Wordpress account, think about how that blog will integrate with your overall communications strategy and online presence
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Wedding a Blog and a Website
The blockbuster conference for the Union of Reform Judaism was a somber affair, the JTA reported . Namely because synagogues are suffering attrition, budget cuts and shakier unions (the URJ was recently restructured). Now is time for congregations – no matter the faith – to take a lesson from the conference, delivered by URJ President Rabbi Eric Yoffie
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How To Start a Blog in 14 Steps for Congregations
This little gem has been hidden on the main Talance website, but we thought we’d bring it to wider attention. Use this checklist every three months or so to make sure your website is still up to date and healthy. Site Content All links work All downloads work All forms work Contact information on homepage and accessible on every other page Addresses organization’s goals Has a favicon Usability All images have ALT tags Custom 404/page not found page Each menu has no more than seven choices Home link in navigation User-friendly page titles Readability Font size not too small Wide margins Good use of bullets, subheadings and bold No underlines except for hyperlinks High contrast text and images Operation Looks OK in most common Web browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera) Uses limited Flash to comply with iPhone and iTouch Images are sized correctly (i.e., big image not squeezed into small box) Colors and images are consistent Loads quickly Looks OK in different screen resolutions Looks OK with various screen color settings URLs work without “www” Security Pages requiring SSL access are accessible only via SSL No one has access to restricted areas that they shouldn’t have
[Photo credit: Tree of Light by JPhilipson, on Flickr ] If you’ve been thinking about how to scrap your paper bulletin (and you should be), but you’re not sure how to sell it to your members, take a page (virtually, of course) from this ad I spotted in InformationWeek : InformationWeek Worth more than the paper it’s printed on. InformationWeek will be carbon-neutral within 10 years.
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How to Scrap Your Paper Bulletin