Is it possible for a team to be cohesive, effective and healthy and not work in the same building? The short answer: Yes. But like any team or community, it takes work. Light & Life Communications is a team of nine that works in three states in seven cities. Over the past two years, we’ve [...]
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Making WordPress Print-Friendly and Registering Shortcodes
While not everyone has to worry about creating printer-friendly content, at the Free Methodist Church – USA, this feature is in high demand. There are a lot of ways to go about it, but we settled on using printfriendly, along with their fantastic WordPress plugin. While the plugin offers a lot of customization, we ran [...]
LLCOMM Offers Training to FMCUSA Departments
During 2012, Light & Life Communications will be offering regular training sessions to staff of the World Ministries Center and other FMCUSA teams. “It’s important for LLCOMM to train other departments on new technologies because we’re on the cutting edge of many different tools,” said Jason Archer, Executive Director of LLCOMM. “As we learn, we [...]
It’s Important to Tell Your Story
As we push the Free Methodist Church – USA’s web presence further, one of our main goals is a sense of community. The FMC has more than 120,000 attendees in the United States alone, and close to 1 million worldwide. We want to use the web as a place for Free Methodists to gather. Light [...]
Can You Find It?
When you come to a web site you are coming to see what is new or looking for something specific. Being able to find what you came for is important. Site architecture, content organization and how it flows from one page to another, plays one role, but another is how well the site’s search function works.
Adventures in creating a WordPress network
When we set out to redesign and relaunch the old freemethodistchurch.org, we weren’t just looking to change one site. We wanted to unify and solidify the Web presence of the denomination’s many departments and ministries. WordPress is our tool of choice, for a few reasons: It’s open source. There is a huge community of developers [...]
Exclusive Online Content for October
We’re excited to offer additional online resources for you or your small group with this month’s issue of LLM. These articles, written by Pam Braman, explore the theme of social media. We hope these articles will be a great resource. Each one includes follow-up questions to consider individually or as a group. Week 1 – [...]
Lackey Wins iPad at GC11
BY JEFF FINLEY As a self-proclaimed “total Free Methodist fanboy,” Jaymes Lackey came to General Conference 2011 with high expectations, but he didn’t expect to win an iPad. “I’ll open up the Free Methodist app first,” said Lackey, 26, as Light & Life Communications employees handed him the new iPad. Lackey was randomly selected for [...]
Exclusive Online Content for September
We’re excited to offer additional online resources for you or your small group with this month’s issue of LLM. These articles, written by Michael Traylor, explore the theme of diversity. We hope these articles will be a great resource. Each one includes follow-up questions to consider individually or as a group. Week 1 – God’s [...]
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