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Karl Beaudry has worked with the OurChurch.com technical support staff since 2007 and has an extensive web design/programming background. Music is his first love and he enjoys composing, arranging, and playing several instruments. Karl's wife and 3 grown children are also musicians and they all love spending time at Disney World.

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OCC Launches New Help Desk and Knowledge Base

By Karl Beaudry Jan 21, 2011 198833 Comments2011-01-21+14%3A25%3A30Karl+Beaudry

OurChurch.com has made getting support simple, beautiful, and remarkable with a new help desk and help pages integrated into the MyOCC dashboard.

misc

announcement, help, help desk, knowledge base, support

Website Tips Video: Getting Site Statistics

By Karl Beaudry Nov 22, 2010 30832 Comments2010-11-22+12%3A38%3A03Karl+Beaudry

The next in a series of Quick Tips videos, this video discussed the value of site statistics and some methods for obtaining them.

web design

analytics, statistics

Website Tips Video: Graphics and Fonts Part 2

By Karl Beaudry Oct 25, 2010 29743 Comments2010-10-25+13%3A16%3A03Karl+Beaudry

The next in a series of Quick Tips videos, this video is part two of a discussion on the bad and the good practices in the use of graphics and fonts.

web design

fonts, graphics

Website Tips Video – Graphics and Fonts (part 1)

By Karl Beaudry Oct 18, 2010 29034 Comments2010-10-18+12%3A35%3A27Karl+Beaudry

The next in a series of Quick Tips videos, this video is part one of a discussion on the bad and the good practices in the use of graphics and fonts.

web design

fonts, graphics, tips, tutorial, video

Website Tips Video – Using Meta Tags

By Karl Beaudry Oct 11, 2010 284920 CommentsWebsite+Tips+Video+-+Using+Meta+Tags2010-10-11+19%3A47%3A30Karl+Beaudry

Meta tags are information not visible to web page visitors but can affect search engine rankings and the content of search engines listings. This Quick Tips Video explains what meta tags are and how to use them.

search marketing, web design

christian web design, christian web hosting, meta tags, SEO, web design, web hosting

“Impact” Makes an Impact

By Karl Beaudry Jun 25, 2008 1921 Comment%22Impact%22+Makes+an+Impact2008-06-25+18%3A17%3A10Karl+Beaudry

Karl Beaudry, former technical director for Impact International, writes about how the Internet has greatly enhanced the radio ministry of this missions organization.

missions

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Which best describes your organization's approach to assessing the value/ROI of social media?

We diligently track the source of all sales/goals so we know what social media is producing.
We look at trends. If our use of social media correlates with an increase in our sales/goals that indicates it's value.
You can't put a dollar value on relationships and so we don't try to assess the value/ROI of social media.
We're doing some tracking of the source of sales/goals, so we have some numbers, but we also recognize there's more to the value of social media than those numbers.
We're experimenting with social media now. We'll tackle the value/ROI issue once we get a better idea of what we're doing.
We know we should be trying to assess the value of social media, but we just don't know how.
We're not using social media.

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