WOW Sites are trying to offer a collaborative, worshipful online work environment for pastors, ministries, boards, conferences and denominations. It is set up as a secure site so persons coming to the site will need to login each time they visit. This gives your ministry teams the opportunity to discuss in a safe place online. Any videos, documents, posts, pages, or comments will be available only to those that are logged in. Even if they are accidentally linked backed by intentional or accidental social sharing. There are a number of features that will help you begin conversations online that we will complete in person or vice-versa.

Features include:

1. A dwelling in the Word section, a verse of the day and other inspirational material are in the sidebars to keep the work focused on your core values.
2. Form subgroups with others on network to add insight or break off into work teams (committees)
3. Polls and surveys for decision-making.
4. Rate the posts and comments to find consensus. The best ideas rise to the top.
5. Sidebar widgets show top rated ideas and another shows ones that are still unrated. Helps you easily track what needs further discussion.
6. An answers page shows the final answer to all your worshipful work.
7. A calendar of upcoming events helps your team stay focused and on track for the next meeting in person.
8. A documents page holds needed documents for your conversation that are editable by your team.
9. Chat live with your team while you work online.
10. More features added as I develop this platform.

If you would like to see and try out a first generation site go to MennoShare.com

Ever wonder if I was on twitter all the time? Well if you did here’s the answer….I’m not. I schedule my posts on Twitter, Facebook, etc with a slick free app called Timely.is.

What does it do?

• You create a profile.
• Add the social networks you use.
• Tell it how many times you want to post during the day. The app figures out when the best time for the people that follow based on your past 199 Timely.is posts.
• Then add the Create a Timely button by dragging it to your browser bar. That’s it
• Then as you browse or create content you click on the Create a Timely button in your browser, click on the social networks you want to post to in the popup and then click schedule. You can schedule even weeks in advance which is great if you want to go on a day apart, a vacation or even a sabbatical.

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.

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Internal Social Network offers MC_USA and other ministries the possibility to discuss, discern and decide together online between face to face meetings.