The name may be a bit different, but the intent is still the same – to grow the Kingdom by embracing new media. M2LIVE.org (formerly Ministry 2.0) will host its inaugural webcast on April 14, 2010 at 11 a.m. (EDT), featuring 8BIT founder and North Point Ministries’ creative web director, John Saddington. Saddington will be discussing church social media strategy development.

The first in a series of FREE webcasts, the M2LIVE webcast will feature insight from many of today’s brightest church web evangelists. While presenters will have opportunity to share their message, the format will allow you ample time to ask questions and engage the presenter.  To access the webcast, visit http://www.M2LIVE.org/live on April 14th at 11:00 a.m. (EDT). Each webcast will last about one hour.

M2LIVE.org is a grassroots effort allowing believers of all backgrounds to come together to celebrate Christ, while sharing and learning from one another. A series of web-based and live hands-on workshops, M2LIVE is designed for church leaders and volunteers interested in enhancing their ministry using the latest in web and social media technology. Learn more at http://www.M2LIVE.org.

In order to help administrators get started with their new subscription, we have re-organized the Help in the Management Console of your Organization. In addition to providing links to the most important tasks, we have created a video that will walk you through completing those tasks.

To see this new help, click on the Manage link beside your organization on Your Dashboard. On the Overview tab you’ll see the help links with a screenshot link to the video in the sidebar. If you currently see Recent Activity on the Overview tab just click the green Show Get Started Help at the top.

As always, if you have any questions, you can reach us through the Support Forum by clicking on the blue Feedback & Support box when logged into MemberHub.

You know that feeling you get when you’re speaking with someone and you’re trying to articulate a point or message and you know that they “just get it”? They understand what you’re saying and why you’re saying it. You’ve effectively communicated to that person. It feels good.

I recently had that feeling after I visited a page on The Savior Community Church‘s website. Pastor Frank, he “gets” MemberHub. If our website doesn’t do the best job at explaining what MemberHub can do for your church, than watch Pastor Frank’s video below. The page that he’s put on SCC’s website  for his members is quite possibly more effective at communicating the value of MemberHub than our 6-minute product tour video.You be the judge. That page is here. The video is below.

Watch the video below tell us what you think in the comments!

MemberHub video for SaviorCC.com from Frank DeLalla on Vimeo.

Your organization’s website is important. You’ve spent money on it. Your members spend time on your website. Visitors go there to learn about your organization. It’s your online brochure to the world. Who are you “Church XYZ”? What is your cause really about “Mr. Nonprofit Organization?”

So when you decide to implement a private social network for your members where they can connect and communicate you might consider your website as the launching point for your new network. We recognize that it’s essential to integrate MemberHub into your existing website and we offer you a way to do this through a tool we called a Hub List Widget. You can read more about it over here in our online Knowledge Base.

You can see an excellent use of a hub listing widget in the wild over at Imagine Fellowship’s website.

Start a free MemberHub trial and check try it out. It will only cost your time!

Tweet this to win!

Win $390 for your Church, Non-Profit or Member Organization just by Tweeting!

I want @memberhub to donate $390 to a #member-org of my choice. #isum09 http://bit.ly/4BOZwH

How To Enter

Copy the line above and update your twitter status with that exact phrase, as many times as you like. Please encourage others to retweet it!

What You Can Win

The winner will choose a member-driven organization to receive a $390 donation or a free 1-year subscription to MemberHub.com. Details are at the bottom of this post.

What is MemberHub about? Do I need it?

MemberHub is an online solution that combines membership management and group management for member driven organizations such as churches, nonprofits and associations. It’s about empowering groups, whether they are ministries, committees or teams, to get connected and organized in private online hubs. It’s not about gaining more online “friends”…it’s about connecting members to facilitate the “business of being a member”.

How many member-driven organizations is your family affiliated with? A church, nonprofit, sports league, association, private school, preschool, club, etc. You get the point. We’re here to serve the staff and the members of those organizations, so tell them about us!

Why Are We Doing This?

We are honored that we were selected to be an Internet Summit Demo Showcase company and this promotion is fueled by our excitement from this recognition. We’re still a relatively young company and we need you to help us spread the word! But there’s more to it.

Okay, who are you?

We are a group of dedicated, honest and hard-working individuals that want to serve. We want to serve organizations that exist to serve their members by making software that’s easy to use and helps improve real communication. Facebook is NOT the best way to communicate with your members.

You’re Giving Away Money or Software? That’s Genius.

Okay, so we don’t have a really neat, crazy, social media marketing campaign that’s exciting as sending chocolate grasshoppers to all the “pro-bloggers” (as least this time). But that’s not really our style. We want to build relationships with our customers and we want to serve people. Have I said that already?

Want to Learn More?

If you’re at Internet Summit, please stop by our booth. Browse our website and if you have an organization in mind that could use MemberHub please send them our way!

• Winner will identify an organization like a church, nonprofit or association, to choose between a free 1-year subscription to a MemberHub Gold package or choose to receive a donation of $390 from MemberHub.com
• Contest starts at the time this post is published on 11/4/09 and ends 7:00am ET 11/6/09
• The winner will be announced on Monday, November 9, 2009
• New customers are only eligible
• We will randomly select a winner using Kosmix – Lucky Twit

One strategic decision that we made up front when we set out to create MemberHub is to make it family-oriented. We’re all so busy these days and it’s increasingly difficult for families to stay organized with all the activities that each family member is involved. Now this isn’t the place for us to talk about over committing your kids to a million activities and leaving no room for real family time, but suffice it say for those extra involved families, you will be thanking MemberHub when your church, nonprofit and association are all using the same tool. Communications with those groups will be centralized and you will have more time for real community.

What are some of the ways in which tools like MemberHub can help you as a busy individual better manage your time, relationships and communications?

We’d love to hear from you.

Over the last year, we have formed partnerships with a few bloggers. These folks are out there, putting it on the line. They make us laugh and they make us think. These writers are the ones that help the internets flourish with activity that is “properly directed”. I have had the pleasure of getting to know John Saddington, Justin Wise and Adam Walker Cleaveland.

These men are good at what they do. Each one is a stand-up, genuine person with a heart for God and a passion for writing…and that’s why we’ve partnered with them.

Please check out Justin’s review of MemberHub here and Adam’s review of MemberHub here.