I own a Pontiac Montana minivan. I purchased it over four years ago. I like my minivan. I’ve never gone on Pontiac’s website since I’ve owned the minivan. I’m sure the website has helpful information to sell more minivans, but I don’t care. I’ve already purchased mine.
My son plays little league baseball. My son loves baseball. The league has a website, but we still have to register in person at the beginning of each season. I’ve never been on the website. Neither has my son.
I’m a fan of the Cleveland Indians. I love the Tribe. The Indians have a website with all kinds of stories about how great the team is doing. I’ve never read the stories. The only time I’ve used the website is to purchase game tickets. I read about the Indians through my home page on My Yahoo.
I belong to an organization for leaders. I’ve belonged to the organization for several years. They have a website, but they’re more committed to updating their magazine. I rarely read the magazine because I have leadership insights coming to me daily through RSS feeds. I never visit the organization’s website. It just has content from their magazine.
I know an author. I used to read every book he published. That author has a website. He uses it to sell more books. I don’t visit his website, but I do visit Seth’s. I’ve never met Seth, but he’s always sharing fresh ideas with me. They’re free. I have to pay for the other author’s ideas. I buy Seth’s books now.
I used to have a checking account at a local bank. The bank has a website. In fact, the bank began offering online checking and bill payment to make banking easier for their customers. Only problem was they charged their customers more to use that service. I found a bank a few hours away that offered those same services for free. I’ve never visited my current bank, but I use their website almost every day. I also drive by my old bank every day.
I’m just curious. Does your church have a website?












We do have a website…One that we just finished Updating…www.SafeHarborOnline.org
We do. It has information for visitors mainly, except for the calendar… what do you suggest we do to make it more worth while?
http://www.twelveoakschurch.com
Not only does your site have to have useful services or good and updating content to keep them coming back. People need to know what is there.
As an example, I am part of a distance campus whose main church is a couple hours away in another state. A couple of our core leaders didn’t realize that they could give online through the church web site. And these are guys that do all thier banking online.
If they don’t know what is there, they won’t show up either.
I am interested in what daily RSS feeds you get on leadership?
Good For Nothing Websites
Tony Morgan, one of the pastors at Granger Community Church, wrote an intriguing article for his blog a few days ago entitled Good For Nothing Websites. In the article, Tony talks about a few different websites of companies, organization…
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Just read a great article by Tony Morgan @ Granger about useless websites.
Good For Nothing Websites
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“I have leadership insights coming to me daily through RSS feeds” — out of curiosity and my own desire to learn/develop, what RSS feeds are you reading?!
I think we all have our stories of our connections with people, churches, businesses and organizations with “Good for Nothing Websites”.
Honestly, I used to attend a prominent megachurch here in Atlanta a few years ago, but I never visited their website.
Low-quality design + Clutter / Irrelevant Content = A Good for Nothing Website