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6 Ways to Prepare Your Synagogue Website for the High Holidays

Posted on September 6, 2019

Flyers get lost, emails can be overlooked, and print mailings get recycled, but your website remains an accessible resource. Here’s how to get your website ready for the High Holidays. 

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Our Top 5 New Year Resolutions for Your Synagogue Website

Posted on January 8, 2019

While we may have officially celebrated the new year three months ago, another kind of new year is upon us. As you’re busy making (or already breaking) your personal New Year resolutions for 2019, now is a great time to extend a little self-care to your synagogue’s website.

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What Synagogues Can Learn from the Best Church Websites

Posted on November 28, 2018

We took a look at how similar niches, in particular, Christian churches, use their websites as a marketing tool. What we discovered surprised us and we came away with new ideas as to how synagogues can build a better website.

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Best Practices for Promoting Events on Your Synagogue Website

Posted on September 25, 2018

Think of your homepage as akin to the cover of a book. Much like how an appealing cover entices a reader to start reading, your homepage serves to encourage website visitors to dive in for more information.

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Why Event Flyers and Synagogue Homepages Don’t Mix

Posted on September 20, 2018

In their original printed form, these flyers were perfect. Bright text artfully positioned on top of engaging images that grab your congregants attention. But, when the same flyers are added to your homepage problems abound.

An Interview with Dr. Ron Wolfson: Relational Judaism and Synagogue Websites

Posted on June 21, 2018

Recently we sat down with renowned author, educator and inspirational speaker, Dr. Ron Wolfson to discuss synagogue websites, the importance of storytelling and the downside to giving things away for free.

Should a Synagogue Preschool Have Its Own Website?

Posted on July 10, 2017

For many synagogues, their preschool/early childhood center (ECC) is a main attraction that brings young families into the synagogue community and starts them on their path to synagogue membership. What many synagogues often do is include the preschool content within the main synagogue website, but is that really the best approach? Or would it be better if the preschool had its own separate website, one that better highlights what the preschool offers?

5 Tasks Visitors Should Be Able to Do on a Synagogue’s Website

Posted on September 4, 2014

In today’s day and Internet age, when so many people are used to accomplishing certain tasks online (especially younger generations), a synagogue’s website should offer the ability to accomplish some common tasks online – tasks that are common to life in the synagogue community. Here is my list of five tasks that an outstanding synagogue website should let people accomplish.

Who Should Be Responsible for Managing a Synagogue’s Website?

Posted on January 18, 2013

Who is primarily responsible for managing the synagogue’s website? Is it volunteers or laypeople, who are often passionate about technology and want to give their time by working on the website? Is it the professional staff, who are often over-burdened with other responsibilities? Is it an outside website firm altogether? Or is it some combination of all three?

What Makes a Synagogue Website Outdated?

Posted on January 18, 2013

I don’t believe that the need for a website and what it contains are dependent on the size of the synagogue. Synagogues need to view themselves as professional organizations running a professional website presence, and as such need to have a better way of assigning responsibility for it.