With the launch of the recent New Brighton Christian Church web site there are 5 new ways of receiving and sharing the messages, news, and events of the church. Many folks may not be familiar with these new methods yet but they are rapidly becoming popular and even mainstream in today’s online world and well worth the effort for spreading love and faith.   

• Email Updates: This is an easy one to start with. If you have an email address you can have every article that is posted on nbcc.cc delivered to your email address. Simply click on the email updates icon at the bottom of the nbcc home page and submit your email address. Be sure to confirm your subscription by clicking a link in a confirmation email that the subscription service will send you. Once you do this, each day that nbcc.cc has an item posted to it you will receive an email of that day’s posts. You can cancel your subscription any time and your email is kept private.
• RSS Feed: RSS readers are a great way to receive and read news and information from all sorts of sources in a fast, easy and orderly way. If you are unfamiliar with RSS feeds you will find a great summary at this Feeds 101 help page. The new nbcc.cc web site publishes a feed of all its content. All you need to do is click the RSS Feed icon at the bottom of the nbcc home page and subscribe to the feed using your choice of feed readers. Most browsers have some sort of feed reader capabilities but you will find that Google Reader or Bloglines are easier applications to use. Give it a shot, you will be glad you did!
• Calendar: The NBCC calendar is power by Google Calendar and is shared to the public which allows you to add the whole calendar or individual events to your own Google calendar and also your Outlook calendar, your iphone, or other calendars. Click the Google calendar button at the bottom right of the calendar and get signed up today or take a look at the Google Calendar tour for more information.
• ShareThis: At the bottom of every post written at nbcc.cc you will see a ShareThis icon. Clicking this button will open a panel of options for you to share the post you are viewing with the world. I counted ShareThis as only “one” in my list of 5 new ways to Connect with NBCC but in fact within it, it contains almost 50 ways to share. There are 3 tabs to the share panel; Social Web, Post, and Send Email. The Social Web option contains popular social sites such as Facebook, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Google Bookmarks, Technorati and many more and prepopulate fields with the current NBCC post’s url making it easy to share and comment on. The Post tab creates an easy way to start a post to your own blog or even micro-blog such as Twitter. The Send Email tab gives you an easy way to send a quick email that contains a link to the NBCC post and a short note to your friends and family.
• Google Map: The New Brighton Christian Church map page contains a google map showing folks where the church is. Google maps has a feature where people can post reviews of places that are on the map. This means you can post your review on Google and share the good news of NBCC and how you appreciate your church! This kind of word of mouth communications can help NBCC grow. To post your review: Click on the ‘A’ pin marker in the church map locating NBCC to center the word cloud. Click the New Brighton Christian Church title in the word cloud which will take you to the Google Maps page for NBCC. Towards the top of the Google map page for NBCC just under the New Brighton Christian Church text you will see a link saying “Write A Review“. Click on that link, log into or create a Google account and write your review. Let’s spread the word on Google about NBCC!!!