The update includes:

The new API includes:

This release includes 67 new features, improvements and fixes since 3.0.

The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals  is an organization of individuals that believes Evangelicals have largely forgotten the foundations of the Christian Gospel and is dedicated to calling on the Protestant churches, especially those that call themselves Reformed, to return to the principles of the Protestant Reformation.  The Alliance consists of a who's who of pastors/theologians such as RC Sproul, Albert Mohler, CJ Mahany, John Piper, John Macarthur, Mark Dever, Jerry Bridges and many others.

Design Partner: Designwise

Launch Site: ReformedResources.org

Services: Content Management System, Application Development, E-Commerce.  The Alliance  brought Monk Development in to build an e-commerce resource site (ReformedResources.org) to host 60 years of reformed resources, including conferences, videos, digital downloads, books and others.

The Center for Play Therapy's mission is to encourage the unique development and emotional growth of children through the process of play therapy, a dynamic interpersonal relationship between a child and a therapist trained in play therapy procedures.

Reseller: AM Design

Launch Site: Center for Play Therapy

Services: Content Management System

These are just a few of the recent sites that have launched on Ekklesia 360.

We did change a few usability features on the list pages. Most are minor and shouldn't impact your use of the system, the biggest change is the Context Menu & Filters.

Context Menus - Use of the Context Menu replaces many of the 'Operations' items displayed previously in the list pages, but they also include new capabilities. The Context Menu will continue to grow in its functionality after the roll-out. To learn more visit our Context Menu help article.

Filters - A few of the lists include Filters (eg. RSVP, Sales). These filter options are now hidden to but appear when the filter is selected. To learn more visit our Filter help article.

We hope you enjoy the new look, shortly we will begin to roll out new features to continue to enhance the CMS and your ability to manage your presence online.

The update includes:

The new API includes:

The update includes:

The new API includes:

This release includes 37 new features, improvements and fixes since 2.7.10.

City of Grace is a multi-site church in Arizona. Currently they have sites at Mesa & Scottsdale but several more are planned. Here are a few of the awards and recognition this site has received:

The City of Grace site was designed by Church Plant Media.

Several of our design partners continue to demonstrate their exceptional ability to serve church clients. Here are a few of our partners award winning sites:

These are just a few samples from the nearly 50 design companies that offer our CMS to their clients.

The update includes:

The new API includes:

This release includes 12 new features, improvements and fixes since 2.7.9.

The update includes:

This release includes 16 new features, improvements and fixes since 2.7.8.

The update includes:

This release includes 25 new features, improvements and fixes since 2.7.7.

The update includes:

The updates also includes over 60 minor feature enhancements and bug fixes to all the modules.

It is now possible to accurately display the styles of the customer website in the WYSIWYG editor. All that you need to do is create a CSS file called editor.css and place that in the Media folder on the customer FTP site. This file needs to contain the classes and style rules your customers are permitted to edit. For more information, see our help document.

This maintenance release also includes the following improvements:

The Denver Seminary site has received a number of acolades:

UnMatched Style, Web Creme, the Best Designs, CSS Mania, CSS Remix & CSS Flash.

You are now free to create podcasts for a Sunday school class, special event or youth group. Separate news feeds can be created for any segment of your church, any teaching series or just about anything else you can imagine. There will be more updates in this area before long, so stay tuned!

Enjoy the new releases, the next release is just around the corner with new functionality.

My name is Justin Stayton, I am 21 years old, and no, I don’t usually talk this way. I just have a thing for grandiose statements and sarcasm. It’s nice to meet you.

I really have been working here, and my proof can be found throughout the system.

Locking is a nifty new feature that prevents two members from editing (or deleting, or publishing) the same record (whether it be sermon, or event, or whatever) at the same time. The details can still be viewed, but a message informs you that the record is locked by your church secretary, Glenda, and disables your ability to make changes. While slightly annoying when you’re just trying to fix a misspelled word, you will thank me for saving you from accidentally overwriting all of Glenda’s changes.

Notices have also been unveiled to give you a better warning when the system is going down for maintenance, or we just feel like saying Hello. So keep your eyes on your Dashboard! (And we even have the option of sending you an e-mail notice too.)

For the grand finale, let me just say this: Discussions. Like the premise of Cloverfield, however, it’s top secret.

Since I began here at Monk five months ago, a lot of exciting projects have been undertaken, but I can’t wait to see what’s in-store for the next five. You'll want to stay tuned.

Justin Stayton, better known as Jark, is a Software Developer who enjoys waking up, putting on his suit and tie, and walking three steps to his office on the other side of his bedroom.

For events that require a fee, Ekklesia 360 will ask for credit card details and charge your attendees accordingly.  Events will never be the same again.  

Breakout session 3 Tueday 300 to 400pm

Brad Abare (Center for Church Communication & Church Marketing Sucks) and I did the session: Get the Word out! What every church planter needs to know about communication. Brad covered a lot of principles of communication (influenced by Tipping Point - Gladwell, Purple Cow - Godin, Mind Your X's and Y's - Lisa Johnson). I brought some of the practical perspective from church planting and other peoples church planting experience. We also used websites as an example of how some of these principles play out. The downside of the session was it's not recorded and this pdf is missing (1) videos used, (2) a lot of the context and (3) stories from church planters to connect this. So it may come across more pragmatic then the intended. But alas,enjoy.

Get the Word out! What every church planter needs to know about communication (pdf)

Breakout session 6 Thursday 845 to 945am

More and more we need to see the internet as a mission field. As our culture moves increasingly online, this presentation discusses how churches can be missionaries to unbelievers, gather the unchurched and connect with their community. This is a session I did last week at the National New Church Conference. The session wasn't recorded but a lot of Q&A occurred as much of the information was new for the audience. Feel free to post if you have questions.

Using the Internet to Gather, Connect and as a place of Mission (PDF)

Get the Word Out! What every church planter needs to know about communication - Tuesday afternoon – Breakout Session 1 – from 3 to 4pm. Session will be co-led with The Center for Church Communication and Church Marketing Sucks founder Brad Abare.

Bloggers Roundtable - Wednesday from Noon to 1pm with Mark Batterson, Ben Arment, Tadd Grandstaff, Gary Lamb, Derek Brown, and others.

How to build a website for a church or ministry - Wednesday - Breakout session 5 - from 215 to 315pm.

Using the Internet to Gather, Connect and as a place of Mission - Thursday morning – Breakout session 6 – from 845 to 945am.

http://northstarpc.org/resources/messages/ or http://thesprings.org/sermon/balancing-the-debt-see-saw

In order to do this you simple need to use the __videopopup__ tag in the API. This will create a link to a popup flash video player. Here is an example of how you could use it:

__videopopup width='400' height='360'__

It is important to note that you need to have your video in Flash Video format but there are many tools out there to help you create .flv files. Some help to do that can be found here.

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Feed Burner [link]

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NewsGator [link]

Feedster [link]

My Yahoo! [link]

PubSub.com [link]

Blogdigger [link]

BlogRolling [link]

BlogStreet [link]

Moreover [link]

Weblogalot [link]

Icerocket [link]

News Is Free [link]

Topic Exchange [link]

Say you belong to a church with a website called www.spiritchurch.com and there are three off site locations in different parts of the same city with websites called east.spiritchurch.com, west.spiritchurch.com and www.spiritedyouthgroup.com.  Each of your campus websites may have different styles and messages depending on the intended audience, but all share a common message thread preached by your senior pastor on Sundays.  All your Ekklesia admin needs to do is upload the sermon with notes, video or documents to www.spiritchurch.com and all your sub sites will be updated with the same sermon in the following way:

www.spiritchurch.com/sermon/how-to-read-the-bible

east.spiritchurch.com/sermon/how-to-read-the-bible

www.spiritedyouthgroup.com/sermon/how-to-read-the-bible

All these sites may have different navigations, graphics, about pages and more, but they all share the same sermon content. 

Let's say you create a gallery and name it 'My Photo's from Hawaii', the XML file will be called: ssp-my-photos-from-hawaii.xml. Every Slide Show Pro xml file has the ssp- prefix. Go for it!