FUMC Communications Team minutes
February 11, 2008 by Jerry Niebaum
The Communications Team met from 7p.m. to 8p.m. in Room 203 downtown on Monday, February 11, 2008. In attendance were Jerry Niebaum, interim chair; Rob Bickers, Bill Bartscher, Ted Kihm, and Candice Ranney.
The meeting began with introductions and personal sharing with a focus on occupation.
The planned agenda:
1. Review http://fumcweb.com site
2. How/who can we recruit additional Communications Team members?
3. How can we make the Radio ministry more effective? Can we make the content available electronically?
4. How can the planned video for the capital campaign be modularized for future use? Can we make it available electronically?
5. How can we encourage/train other team leaders to use electronic communications?
6. How can we improve the Web resources we have now? Can we help insure that all browsers see our site in the same format?
7. How can we capture new content for electronic delivery e.g. sermons, services, music programs?
8. Set next meeting date/location.
9. Guidebook and Directory
Jerry distributed handouts showing the organization of the fumcweb.com Web site and talked about the various features in use and available for use. He expressed his hopes to present tutorials to the team about Web sites and use of blogs for FUMC. He noted that the youth have recently begun using a blog at: http://fumcweb.com/blog/youth.htm
Team members are asked to review church membership for possible additions to our team.
Candice expressed some concern about the Guidebook & Directory,
since that is now a Communications Team responsibility. She will distribute the
2007 guidebook section for our review. Jerry and Rachel are working on the
spreadsheet for the directory portion. Ted is hopeful that in future years we
may be able to use the SQL database used by the
Rob reported that he and Terry Rombeck have agreed to put together the capital campaign video and will try to modularize it for future use outside the campaign. Rob will check with Mass Street Music on digital recording options for an alternative to our audio tape capture currently used on the downtown campus. Rob said that he had discussed some of the issues with Sara Wentz.
Additional features for communication that were suggested are a FUMC recipe blog and a bulletin board system. Ted will check on possibilities for ‘forum’ software that we might run on fumcweb.com .
Our next meeting will be at 7p.m. on
Tuesday, March 11 at the home of
Jerry & Judy Niebaum
Cedarwood Hills
1573 N. 962 Rd.
PH 842-3127
Drive south to eastbound County Road 458 (North 1000 Rd).
From
From
Turn right into Cedarwood Hills, continue .5 miles.
Niebaums are next to last house on left with Niebaum on the mailbox.
Other scheduled meetings are:
Tuesday, April 15 (location tba)
Tuesday, May 13 (location tba)
The Team will resume meetings in September.