Our First Poll

I've decided to try a new feature on Blogger, the site which hosts our Online Newsletter. They have a polling function which allows us to do small surveys with our readers.

This time I've decided to hunt for more content for our Online Newsletter. I would like to promote and support our church members and friends by listing links to their personal and professional websites. This would be a great opportunity for our church members for a number of reasons. By checking out the personal websites of our church members you'd be able to learn more about the people that make our congregation such a wonderful family. By checking our the professional websites of our church members you can learn about the ways our members interact with the community around us in a professional role. By listing your own professional website you may even draw in some additional business from your friends and family at Southern Hills who may not have known your profession previously.

I want to say all church member websites are welcome, but I will place one caveat on that statement. Please make sure that your website is church appropriate. If you have a MySpace page that is filled with advertising that may not be church related, or may be inappropriate for all of our members to be viewing (don't forget our youth, people) you may not want to include that. However, if you have a personal website, blog, or online community web page I'd love to include it. Likewise, if you own your own business and would like to promote that business to the congregation I'd like to include your website. No, I'm not selling advertising. No, I'm not going to place a large banner advertising your product or services. Just a simple little link to your professional website.

Please take the poll. If we have a decent response from everyone I will send out a request for website URLs, names of websites, etc, so we can get our list put together. Keep in mind, this list is going to look similar to the Links section in the sidebar, nothing fancy.

If your respond with a yes to the poll, and would like to participate with your website, feel free to email me personally at kanteker@gmail.com, and I will keep track of your website information until I start posting the list. Also, if you have any suggestions feel free to leave a comment for this post, or to email me directly again.

God Speed,

Michael Colwill

P.S. If the poll goes well, look for more of them in the future. After each poll has been completed, I will put up the results in another Online Newsletter post. Thanks.