1. Why Does My Church Need A Website? Douglas Ward IT Director North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Conference http://www.flickr.com/photos/bull3t/990866224/

2. Why Should I Waste My Time With A Website? http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/12364944/

3. 72% of Adults Using The Internet in December 2008

4. American Citizens Consume The Internet

5. Demographics Total Adults Women – 75% Men – 73% Age 18-29 – 87% 30-49 – 82% 50-64 – 72% 65+ - 41% Community starts here!

7. The Rate At Which Technology Is Changing Is Astounding. No One Could Have Predicted It! Video

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

9. We Must Respond By Adapting Our Message Meet people where they are. Speak their language. Instant visual representation. Reach people who may not even be in your congregation! Always available, convenient and interactive.

10. Why Do We Have To Speak The Language? Us Them Community Happens Here

11. Roles Don't Matter Anymore http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/103294050/in/set-72057594068446573/ Are You A Staff Member? http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/106169979/in/set-72057594068446573/ Are You a Volunteer?

12. Roles Don't Matter Anymore Are You An Elder? Do You Usually Volunteer In Other Areas? http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/104968057/in/set-72057594068446573/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/112323662/in/set-72057594068446573/

13. Roles Don't Matter Anymore Are You An IT Ninja? Do You Have Trouble Using Computers? http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/125395847/in/set-72057594068446573/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/107089118/in/set-72057594068446573/

14. Who Can Reuse My Website's Message? Traditional Copyright Creative Commons GNU Public License Least RestrictiveMost Restrictive

15. Who Controls The Message? 1790: Copyright Act of 1790 28 year duration Only covered books, maps and charts 1909: Revision of the U.S. Copyright Act Expanded to include all works of authorship 56 year duration 1976: Revision of the U.S. Copyright Act Addressed technological improvements Life of author + 50 years Fair use clause 1998: Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act Life of author + 70 years

16. Creative Commons Licenses

17. Technology Is All Around Us Waiting To Be Used (For Free!)

18. So How Do We Actually Do This? This is where the rubber meets the road. Anyone that can use a word processor can use this software. Once set up it is all point and click. Excellent online communities for support. Demo!

19. Resources Issues of Copyright Creative Commons – http://www.creativecommons.orghttp://www.creativecommons.org GNU Public License - http://www.fsf.orghttp://www.fsf.org Website Design Blogger - http://www.blogger.comhttp://www.blogger.com Wordpress - http://www.wordpress.comhttp://www.wordpress.com Free and Open Source (FOSS) Software Firefox (Web Browser) - http://www.mozilla.comhttp://www.mozilla.com GIMP (Image Editor) - http://www.gimp.orghttp://www.gimp.org Mailman (Mailing Lists) - http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.htmlhttp://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html Apache (Web Server) - http://www.apache.orghttp://www.apache.org Open Office (Office Suite) - http://www.openoffice.orghttp://www.openoffice.org Alternative Operating System (OS) Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com

20. Douglas Ward Director of Information Technology North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church http://www.nccumc.org http://www.douglasward.net This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. E-mail: dward@nccumc.orgdward@nccumc.org