The parish website has become an important tool in evangelization and in keeping parishioners abreast of what's going on in the church. The Western Diocese of the Armenian Church put a tutorial online (complete with presentation slides and video) to help people looking to start or improve in website design.
Complete article (with slides and video) available here.(WDAC) - On June 20, 2009 the Western Diocese hosted a workshop with the aim of introducing key concepts regarding website management for the benefit of its many parishes. At the request of His Eminence, Abp. Hovnan Derderian, primate of the Western Diocese, this workshop was conducted by the Diocesan Website Manager, Dn. Matthew Ash, with participants representing seven parishes of the Diocese and two organizations.
It has long been the goal of the Western Diocese to see each of its parishes with successful and well developed online ministries, and towards this aim, many services were presented during this workshop that will serve to support the parishes as they establish their websites.
"We've worked hard to put together a program that will alleviate the burden of the initial steps of establishing an online ministry," said Dn. Matthew, "this program will allow our parishes to very quickly establish autonomous websites that meet the expectations of today's faithful."
Going along with the workshop's theme of utilizing Internet tools to collaborate and share knowledge, all of the event's materials were simultaneously "webcast", and currently available for our faithful to review...
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Thanks for linking our workshop. We hope it helps.
ReplyDeleteHoping people watch this and that this sort of direction on educating parishioners and providing template services is the future. There are some truly awful parish websites out there that need to be scraped off the Internet and started anew.
ReplyDeleteBig thumbs up to Orthodox Web Solutions.
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