Southside Baptist Church Website Outreach Proposals: 2011

1. Southside Baptist Church Website Outreach Proposals: 2011 Created and submitted by Annah Lauren Kelley annahlauren@gmail.com

2. Comparison of current…

3. …and potential homepages

4. Incorporating social media & portability

5. Outreach Tools Powerful Tools • Media Players Have as many media players on your website as you'd like. We give you the ability to organize and play audio and video in a beautiful and powerful player. It's also customizable to fit your unique needs. • Online Calendars For those who need to have schedules or events online, our online calendars are the easiest and cleanest way to display what is happening with your organization. • Password Protect Any Page There are some pages that are not meant for the general public. Clover allows you to easily password protect any pages you'd like, ensuring that your information is accessible only by those to whom you choose to give access. • Podcasting We've created the easiest way anywhere on the web to set up a Podcast. If you've ever tried another solution, you'll be amazed at how easy ours is. Get your message out there. • Lists Easily create pages that display a list of items or people. There's a ton of flexibility, so whether you're creating a staff page, a restaurant menu or a listing of your products, it's guaranteed to look good. • Slideshows You can turn any photo space into a slideshow. You can customize its duration, transition, and more.

6. Mobile Access Mobile Website • View on Any Device Your website comes with a mobile version that's optimized for small screens and cellular download speeds. Whether iPhone, Blackberry, Droid or iPad - we've got you covered. • Easy Browsing Your mobile site is formatted to make reading and navigating simple even on a limited cell phone browser. • Mobile Media and Calendar Our advanced features like Media Players and Calendars are also optimized for mobile browsers. We even serve up audio and video on mobile devices that can play it! • Flash and Mobile In Sync Your mobile site's content is pulled instantly from your full flash website, so you never have to worry about updating two versions of your site. • The Best of Both Worlds Rather than cater to the lowest common denominator in web browsers, we give you a full, animated flash website with rich typography, while still making your content available on all mobile devices.

7. SBC Homepage with Facebook link

8. SBC Facebook pagedirect link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southside-Baptist-Church-Birmingham-Al/149638255050490?ref=ts

9. Better value for our budget (currently paying ~$139/month)

10. What’s Behind-the-scenes (1/3) Search Engine Optimization • All Your Content Is Searchable We create every site with a foundation of HTML, and we make every word and picture on your site visible and optimized for search engines. • Standards Compliant We take standards very seriously, and work hard to ensure that our sites use valid and SEO-optimized HTML and CSS. • SEO Options We give you control of your site's page title options as well as the meta tags for description and keywords. • SEO-Friendly URLs Your page titles turn into search-engine-friendly URLs in order to boost your search rank with relevant keywords. • Fast Servers Google now takes load time into account when ranking sites. We have dozens of high-availability servers, and we work extremely hard to optimize every piece of our system to make sure that your site loads as quickly as possible. Storage • 100 GB of Storage This is the amount of space most companies give you when you buy an entire server. It's enough to post thousands of audio and video files and tens of thousands of pictures. It also means you should never have to give it a second thought. • Storage in the Cloud We host all your content on Amazon's S3 cloud. What this means is that we never have to move your files, so you never have to undergo downtime or slow loading due to server maintenance.

11. What’s Behind-the-scenes (2/3) Reliability and Speed • High-Availability Servers We manage dozens of servers with redundant backups and high-availability databases. We've averaged 99.99% uptime during our entire time in business. • Media Temple Our server structure is proudly built on servers provided by Media Temple, which continues to be one of the most highly acclaimed, reliable and innovative hosting companies in existence. • Optimized Databases We've created our own custom system of databases with multiple masters and slaves. We also ensure that our queries are highly optimized. What this means is super-fast site load times. • Automatic Media Conversion All media you add to your site (photos, audio, video) automatically gets compressed and optimized so it will load quickly (sometimes MUCH more quickly) for your visitors and work in all browsers. Statistics • At-a-glance Statistics Your website is equipped with easy to understand statistics. This is valuable marketing information, and we ensure that it's not convoluted or hard to interpret. It's also updated in real-time, for live access to immediate trends. • Google Analytics For those with a need for more in-depth statistics, it's easy to integrate Google Analytics into your site. Google provides a wealth of information about nearly every aspect of your visitors and their interactions on your site. • Media Player and Podcasting Stats We also provide statistics on your Media Player and Podcasting views. See what media items are most played, and when your visitors are checking them out.

12. Behind-the-scenes (3/3) 3rd Party Tools • Easy Integration It's easy to integrate hundreds of different 3rd party tools into your Clover site. We work with great products and services such as Vimeo, YouTube, WordPress, Blogger, PayPal, Simple Give, MailChimp and Wufoo, to name a few. Most of the time it's as easy as adding a link. • Best in Class Tools Our philosophy is to use the right tools for the right reasons. We recommend 3rd party tools in situations where they'll work best for you, rather than giving you a badly done version as a feature, just so we can pretend we offer every possible tool. • We'll Help Recommend Our customer service team knows the web, and loves finding resources and recommending helpful tools. If you're curious about how to do something specific, give us a call! Instant Delivery • Get Your Website Immediately Once you purchase your Clover website, you are immediately given your website link and can begin designing. No more waiting months for a finished product. • Have Your Site Up in Hours The timing of the launch of your website is entirely up to you. Once you purchase you can wait as long as you'd like, or get it up online immediately. You have the control.

13. Thank you for taking these ideas into consideration I really believe that the tools displayed in this presentation will increase both the visibility of and participation in the Southside community. “Where three or more are gathered in His name” happens more and more on the internet and through social media. We should provide as many platforms for interaction between our current and potential congregants as possible. Thanks again.