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Unitarian Universalist Association
25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 ·
Telephone (617) 742-2100 · Fax (617) 725-4979
Speakers: Kok-Heong McNaughton
Margy Levine YoungThe internet is a very powerful tool for building and maintaining community. Electronic media helps you get the word out at the click of a mouse while building connection and involvement -- for almost no cost!
Web Site
- Why your congregation needs an e-mail address: fast, cheap communications
- Type of account: AOL, Internet account, free (www.juno.com, www.hotmail.com, www.geocities.com)
- Choosing an account: stable, longegity
- Forwarding services (like www.pobox.com, www.iname.com) let you change accounts without changing your e-mail address
- Multiple addresses for church office, minister, RE, etc.
- Who should handle e-mail
E-Mail Mailing Lists
- Why your congregation needs a web site: 200 hits/Sunday looking for a local congregation, 100,000+ new "surfers" per year
- Web hosts: UUA hosts static sites (change about once a year)
- Creating a free, unchanging page: go to www.uc.summit.nj.uua.org/UUA/homepage.html
- Your ISP or web hosting company can host your site (not the UUA)
- Free or cheap sites include www.geocities.com
- Creating and maintaining a site: update regularly with info from the newsletter
- Publicizing the site: submit to Yahoo!, AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, etc. so people will find you
- Get free UUA "subdomain," like cvuus.vt.uua.org: go to www.uua.org/domain.html
- Ownership of the address and of the content: make sure your church owns both!
- Privacy, confidentiality, copyright, inclusivity, and other issues
More Information
- Allow ongoing conversations or announcements via e-mail
- Open, one-way list for church announcements
- Open discussion list for general church-related discussion
- Closed lists for board, staff, committees, etc.
- UUA hosts lists for UUA affiliates and districts, but not for congregations (www.uua.org/lists)
- Be sure to join uu-leaders, memb-L, uu-edit-admin, and UUMA lists at www.uua.org/lists
- Free or cheap mailing lists from www.coollist.com, www.topica.com, www.onelist.com, www.listbot.com, www.egroup.com
- Concerns about inclusivity and mail volume
- UUs Online: www.gurus.com/uu
- UUA UUs Online: www.uua.org/CONG/websters.html
GA Office UUA Main Page Search Our Site Contact Us
Unitarian Universalist Association
25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 ·
Telephone (617) 742-2100 · Fax (617) 725-4979
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