All About GOD - Growing Relationships with Jesus and Others
How Can We Help AllAboutGOD.net Grow?
I'm interested in finding out what we can do to help TheNET grow faster both in terms of numbers of members and the number of people interacting online at the same time.
On average we see 7 new members every day and about 8 online at once.
Is there something we should change or do that we aren't doing now?
Is there something we are doing that we should stop doing?
New members or visitors, what are your first impressions of TheNET?
On average we see 7 new members every day and about 8 online at once.
Is there something we should change or do that we aren't doing now?
Is there something we are doing that we should stop doing?
New members or visitors, what are your first impressions of TheNET?
Views: 405
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Carla on
-
Hello dear Paula,
Jesus is for everyone! It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from....etc....None of that matters. He loves You! Pray for Him to lead you to a church where He wants you...He will guide you there...I know that in my heart to be true! God Bless you. In HIm~Carla
-
Permalink Reply by AAG Netguy on
-
Hi Don! Thanks for this suggestion. We do have a chat box on the MAIN page for people to use. It is a 3rd party group chat widget and if people want to have a one-on-one chat with someone, they can click on their icon in the chatbox to so.
I wish Ning had built in IM, but they don't so we have to make do with this for the meantime.
-
Permalink Reply by Tangie on
-
Well, I have not read all of the responses yet but after reading about half of them, something that I keep seeing is how many people, including myself, claim to have just stumbled upon this site. However, I believe that as seekers -regardless of what level of seeking that is for us individually - we do not stumble. I believe that in our seeking we were led here by God, by the guidance from His Holy Spirit. I am blessed daily as I visit this site and read various comments, messages, conversations, debates, and blogs. I think the motivation behind this site is to share God's love, regardless of our varying backgrounds, individual passions, and even our difference of opinions. Anyone who thinks they already know everything has closed themselves off from learning anything new, including revelation from God. I know what I know today and I am where I am today, but I am open to grow and willing to be molded, shaped, pruned, and purified by my heavenly Father. He is the reason we are here. The only good in any of us is Christ in us, regardless of our denomination or home church. We are one with Him and there is only one Savior, one Spirit, one God amongst the millions and billions of believers and churches and preferences. God works THROUGH people. We who believe in Him and have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior are the ones He will work through to grow this site, to grow fellow believer's as we journey together at various levels of spiritual maturity. The moment the issue becomes about defending our beliefs and demanding conformity to fit our expectations is the moment the focus becomes about our defense and our desires rather than the belief - which is faith. My point to all of my rambling is this......We are here because God led us here, others will come as they are led by God, and the prayers of a righteous man/woman (as we are made righteous in Christ) are effective, so we must pray for growth. God is not a passive God and I do not think He wants us to be passive followers of Christ. As far as growing this site, I think as believers we should ignore the debates about doctrine that are not at all constructive to the goal of growing the site and focus on the suggestions to improve the site by implementing the ideas that are feasible to implement as well as the suggestions to share God's love and our love for one another as members of one family, the family of God, so as to accept, encourage, edify, and lift up one another, thus resulting in the growth of the individuals who are here seeking to experience God's love through unity rather than conformity. We are one body. Lets work together for the greater good of the site and for one another by letting God work through each one of us!
-
-
Amen, Tangie! Thank you for this word of exhortation. You've correctly discerned the purpose of this site: to help new and newly recommitted believers to be discipled and encouraged in their daily walk with Jesus. Let's keep the main thing the main thing: fullfilling the Great Commandment and the Great Commission (Matthew 22:37-40; 28:18-20).
-
Permalink Reply by Leonard T on
-
Greg,
I see an issue regarding the post of members that leave being removed. Many times people respond to those post and when that post is removed we end up with an incomplete thought. Not a probem for us who participated, but if someone stopped by and began to read it they would be without a clue as to what had taken place in that area. Is there away to keep that from happening? I could give one specific example, if you wish, of a response that was posted to a post that had other text missing.
LT
-
-
I know this is a problem, LT, and I'm not sure what exactly to do about it. The issue is typically when people post comments that link to heretical/cult sites, I have been removing them in accordance with our membership agreement. I'd be interested in knowing from others if this is the right approach.
Another problem is when people are banned or decide to leave. Ning currently has no way of keeping their comments up. If they are gone, everything goes with them. That used to not be the case but Ning changed that feature and we can't do anything about it. I'm open to suggestions.
-
-
Johnathan,
It appears that if you replied to an idividuals post and they leave your post goes to. This was brought to my attention today.
LT
-
-
Greg,
I am no IT guy and cannot offer any help in that area. Until some other option is available we will just trust God to bring clarity regarding the post with gaps to the reader.
LT
-
Permalink Reply by Stew on
-
Hey Greg,
If someone "recalls" the original question (minus bad links to inappropriate sites), then perhaps they could do a summary "insert" in the same "neighborhood" as where the thread responses are located.
-
-
Agree with LT's comment. One possible solution (though I don't think we have that level of administrative control) is to "insert" an editorial segment (one that captures both the question and the answer in a complete post). That would remove some of the confusion. I was trying to fill in the blanks on some of the removals on this thread and while the responses were well formed, I could only guess at what the original question was.
-
-
Jack,
The yearly cost of the server would probably be around $500. We think, however, that it will require a full-time technician to keep the network going. We hope to launch some new software technology in the next year or so that will serve as the platform for all the AAG websites including this one. The technology will be viral in nature and will result in even higher rankings in the search engines.
Your offer to help is much appreciated. We are looking forward to seeing how this develops.
-
-
I doubt we'd start from scratch, but I don't have enough information to talk intelligently about it yet. I'm not a programmer/developer. Greg Outlaw, our president and CEO, is the one working on this project. If you want to know more, you can send him a message as he has a profile here.
Welcome to
All About GOD
The Good News
Meet Face-to-Face & Collaborate
© 2024 Created by AllAboutGOD.com.
Powered by
