This week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie are celebrating National Distance Learning Week. They also interview WELS member and businessman John Simonson on web marketing techniques.
The discussion:
Check out Martin’s completed deck projectNational Distance Learning Week – Distance education is growing in popularity, and with today’s Web 2.0 tools, the barriers to creating your own distance learning initiative are virtually gone. Martin and Sallie discuss the components of a distance learning offering and share tips for starting your own objective-based online learning. We also showcase WELS’ many online learning resources for Bible study, ministry support and more.www.wels.net/jump/ndlwThe interview:
Search Engine Optimization (14:56) – WELS member John Simonson from Good Shepherd in West Bend, WI is a business owner of a web development company, WebStream Dynamics. John joins Martin and Sallie to share his knowledge on marketing web sites and search engine optimization, and we look at applications of these techniques for church web sites.Google’s Keyword ToolSubmit web sites for free to the top three search engines:GoogleYahooMSNAdd a free business listing to MSN Live SearchAdd a free listing in Google MapsEvaluate your site with John’s Title Tag and Meta Description toolThe tidbits:
Picks of the week (31:35)Mindjet MindManager 8 upgrade – Free trial downloadUSB-based speaker phone from ClearOne – CHAT 50Of interest (37:29)Live streaming of the Western Regional Choral Festival concertNovember 16 @ 2 p.m. CST from Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School in New Ulm, MNCommunity feedback (39:18)The WELSTech facebook group has 94 members! Will you be member 100?Ryan Rosenthal from Faith in Fond du Lac, WI shared a link to LibriVox.org. The goal of the site is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.Coming up on WELSTech (42:53)Episode 046 – We’ll take a look at “Event Driven Marketing” as you prepare your web site for the Advent and Christmas season. The interview will be with Brian Shaffer of FinalWeb.net, and he’ll share new features being implemented for their web hosting customers.The featured artist:
This week we close with the music of In His Service featuring WELS musicians Dr. Patricia Backhaus and Valerie Floeter (www.adagioconcepts.com) – Gabriel’s Message from their CD titled In His Time (45:03)Get involved:
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