Thursday, August 23, 2007

Ministry Hub Replaces Google!

Our first press release!

Ministry Hub Replaces Google
Contact: Tim Yates, President, Ministry Hub, 515-770-6013, tim@ministryhub.com

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- Ministry Hub, LLC., announced today the launch of Ministryhub.com, an online community of pastors dedicated to finding and sharing the most relevant ministry ideas.

Ministry Hub is a bold new approach to finding the most relevant programming elements for churches today. It combines the power of social networking with cutting edge technology that facilitates and captures ideas in a centralized and ever-growing database. "MinistryHub.com will allow those who serve in Ministry the ability to network together on a greater scale than ever before" said Tim Yates, President of Ministry Hub, LLC. "Through peer recommendation they will be able to find the product they need, when they need it."

In addition to the "Virtual Brainstorming Sessions" (VBS), the Ministry Hub platform features a central meeting place (the Hub), where pastors can network with others in ministry and select current topics for discussion. It also provides the results of the session in a customizable viewing format that allows them to preview and purchase products with ease. "Ministry Hub allows me the opportunity to create meaningful services with not only my own team members but also other creative people around the country. I can see Ministry Hub becoming a very valuable tool to any church no matter the size" said Jeff Poole, Creative Arts Director of The Crossing Community Church. "It saves me from endlessly searching for ideas."

Hundreds of thousands of pastors all over the world scour the Internet each week in search of songs, dramas, and media clips to better illustrate their weekend sermons. With no place to collaborate together and the lack of a cumulative database of service ideas, ministers may spend hours 'Googling' for relevant content, until now. MinistryHub.com enables those who serve in ministry to create a more effective message in less time. "Pastors have been waiting for a service like Ministry Hub. In addition to saving time and money searching for service ideas, we need a way to collaborate together to find out what's working in other churches and what's not working" said Jason Stark, Lead Pastor of Re-Church. When you're the one facing a blank page every Monday morning and need service ideas that you know will work, there is no better place to start than Ministryhub.com.

About Ministry Hub
MinistryHub.com is a community driven site where pastors and creative team members can network together through the use of our Virtual Brainstorming Sessions to find the perfect idea for their service or series.

With MinistryHub, you can:
- Find out the most current and relevant programming ideas...What's working in other churches and what's not!
- Network with your peers
- Participate in live Topical Brainstorming sessions
- Build your online creative team
- Download products online...save time searching
- Gain access to the largest and most relevant database of programming ideas online

To learn more, please visit http://www.ministryhub.com.

Ministry Hub, the Ministry Hub logo, and Virtual Brainstorming are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Ministry Hub, LLC in the United States. Other marks belong to their respective owners.

Media:

Tim Yates
Ministry Hub, LLC
515-770-6013
tim@ministryhub.com


Thursday, August 16, 2007

Latest Updates

Well a lot has been happening as always at MinistryHub.com. First of all, we've added a few additional programmers to our team, so everyone say hello to McClain Looney, Wes Beary, and Chris Stearns. Between these three guys and our lead programmer Luke Amdor, we should be able to finish up, tighten up and fix almost anything we desire.

So in saying that here's what we have been up to lately.

We ran our first real advertisement in the Worship Leader e-blast and look forward to working more with Worship Leader in the future. They have been a great place for us to get started with our advertising.
We have also built our first tutorial video giving a brief overview of the site and some of it's functionality. It's a great place to begin if your new to the concept of MinistryHub.com. We'll be adding new tutorials each week, to try and make it as clear and easy as possible to use the site.

Here are some of the new things we've added:
- There is now an online users count. You can now view from the Hub, how many are online at any given time, as well as send them a private message.
- Pre-populate the Media Clip Tab in the Virtual Brainstorming Area- When in the Virtual Brainstorming Area and you select the Media Clip tab, we now pre-populate that area with all of the videos that Sermonspice.com has regarding your selected topic. You can still suggest any other title you wish, but we thought this would give you a head start.
- We've added the "Loading" box in between the Results and The Store letting you know that we are searching multiple product providers for the product available to you, for the title you selected.
- Open Idea Rooms are now displayed as Private Rooms in the Active Room Listing located in The Hub.

There is still more great news coming...can't divulge as of yet, but soon and once again you're gonna like it!

The MinistryHub.com Team