Joann Edwards

Everybody's Doin' It!

Blogging... Everyone's doing it, in fact Keystone's been kind of behind the times, getting into the game late. But we're ready, we're just going to do it.. Adding the following blogs to our typepad suite:

• The Big Idea Blog
  • Individual, Team, Adult group and Children's weekend materials beginning with the new series, Eat This Book

• Prayer Blog, revised and simplified coming July 2008

• Keystone FAQ Blog, coming August 2008

Online Study Tools

I ran across a couple of cool sites this week, take a look:

• Youversion online Bible Study Tool
• Online Daily/One Year Bible Reading Plan
• Collide Magazine
• Planning Center (online collaborative project planning site) definitely checking this out for operational planning

Summer Operations Focus - Communication

Keystone's spring leadership retreat helped us (staff) focus on various HOT BUTTONS... Different staff have taken lead with the 4 main chunks of operational planning. I'm working on communication. Any of you interested in joining me? Jane Beal (my communication partner in planning) and I have been talking through some of the details with some of you informally, and we're ready to have our first "official" meet-up. Here are the main things we're going to work through...

• Step 1: Review (current) and Revise Communication Plans/Systems for...
  • Leadership & Staff
  • Sites
  • Attending friends
  • Guests/Visitors

• Step 2: Systems Review
  
  • Database/records
  • Technology (web, software/hardware)
  • Collaborative workspaces

• Step 3: Integration of Communication Plans and Systems (TRAINING)

I know you're as excited as I am to get working on these challenges! Please consider joining us. In fact, I've been meeting with a group of church communicators (see our blog) on the 3rd Tuesday of every month for lunch. Everyone's welcome, just shoot me an email and I'll fill you in with the details.