Second.org Wins Houston Gold Addy Award
On February 13, the Houston chapter of the American Advertising Federation awarded Origin Design a Gold Medal Addy Award in Interactive Media for their design of Second.org. We are very excited about this recognition of our website.
As a gold medal winner, our website will now be submitted for a district award and hopefully then a national award.… READ MORE
Looking Back to the Redesign of Second.org
A few months ago, I reported to our Executive team the impact of the recently redesigned second.org. Since its launch in late March, our number of page views have doubled…reaching as much as 2.2 million in a single month. Today, we have 3,261 registered users, 1,000+ of which registered within the first week of launch.… READ MORE
Blessed to Be a Blessing: Going from 3 to 5 Campuses
The following video still gives me chills. This video was produced in 2006 for the Second Baptist Church family to challenge them to give towards the expansions of three of our existing campuses and add two additional campuses (in theaters at that time). Today, all five campuses are thriving.… READ MORE
Nielsen Study: Twitterers Quit After 1st Month
Not long ago, Reuters reported a Nielsen Online study about twitter users. Here is an excerpt…
- Twitter’s audience retention rate, or the percentage of a given month’s users who come back the following month, is currently about 40 percent,” David Martin, Nielsen Online’s vice president of primary research, said in a statement….Martin said Facebook and MySpace, the more established social network sites, enjoyed retention rates that were twice as high and those rates only rose when they went through their explosive growth phases.… READ MORE
Event Based Blogging
Every year our church Student Ministry sponsors two Beach Retreats for Junior High (South Padre, TX) and High School students (Gulf Shores, AL). This year we had record attendance at each Beach Retreat. At High School Beach Retreat we had 1,727 students and adult volunteers. At Junior High Beach retreat we had 1007 students and adult volunteers, a summer total of 2,734.… READ MORE
About Equip Them
Equip Them focuses on technology as tools for evangelism and spiritual formation in the church and family. It is the personal blog of David Drinnon, pastor and Director of Information Technology and Websites at Second Baptist Church, Houston, TX. The opinions and views expressed on this site are his own and do not necessarily represent those of his church.
Church IT Professionals
The Church IT Network (formerly CITRT) is a peer learning community of Church and ministry IT people. Join the conversation and attend our semi-annual events. Learn More...