Check out the latest feature for adding great social elements to your church websites.  With the new year, we're set to launch some new ways of sharing and the Fancy Social Bookmark feature is the first.  With a few clicks of your mouse, you can offer your site visitors options for sharing a page via facebook, twitter, linked in, google buzz, and about 100 other bookmarking tools.

it's included with the Plus and Pro levels at SnapShot Web.  If you don't yet have a SnapShot Website,  Sign up for a 100% risk free 30-Day trial to test it out yourself.

Check out the video tour that will show you the Fancy Bookmark Feature in action and test it for yourself at the bottom of the page.

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The Twitter Feed feature has been out for a few weeks now and we're getting lots of great feedback.  So far our favorite way that we have seen it used is as a simple and elegant newsfeed on a church home page.  It's an easy way to let your community and the rest of the world know what's going on at your church.  Check our current favorite instance of it.  

If you are using it on your site, let us know so we can take a look. If you have yet to get it set up, just send us an email at support@snapshotweb.com with the word TWITTER and your domain name and we'll have it configured for you so you can drop it on your site right away.

As always, you can follow the latest from SnapShot Web on twitter, facebook, and our blog.

We've just released a sweet new twitter feature for your SnapShot Websites.  It's included will all three plans.  If you don't yet have it on your site, just send an email to support@snapshotweb.com or a direct message to @SnapShotWeb with your domain name and the word TWITTER.  We'll add it to your site right away. Check out this quick demo to see the New Twitter Feed in Action...

At SnapShot Web, We pride ourselves on going above and beyond helping you make your church or ministry website into something beautiful, effective, and amazing.  We love to support you as you manage your SnapShot Website.  We'll often get a phone call or email that begins with "So sorry to bother you but..." It's never a bother.  Helping you is what we love to do.  We see it as a great gift and joy to get to support you and your ministry in this way.

Occasionally we will have a SnapShot Web user that doesn't ask any questions.  This sometimes means that she or he is not working with their site much.  It sometimes means that they are comfortable with the most basic setting and they will leave their site as it is.  And it sometimes means that they are a super-user - so gifted at working with the SnapShot Web tools that they may have things they could teach us.

Adding Widgets and Social Bookmarks to your Church website is a great way to increase traffic, improve your SEO, and allow people in your community to easily share your website with their friends and followers.  If you are new to all of this, here are six ways to get started:

1. Add a twitter or tweet this option
   
   You'll certainly want to make it easy for visitors to your site to tweet about your site with s simple click.  You can embed the javascript that you will find at a service like http://www.tweetmeme.com/
    
2. Add a Google Buzz button
   
   Google Buzz is a way to "share updates, photos, videos, and more."  You can generate the embed code to drop the Buzz Button on your site here http://www.buzzcounter.net/

To make your church website more social and improve your Search Engine Optimization, you'll want to add the newest Social Bookmarks Feature from SnapShot Web.  Add bookmarks to Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Linked In, Yahoo Buzz, Email and over 30 more.  You can also add a Follow Me On Twitter button and a Tweet This Page button.

Check out the quick demo that will show off this great new tool.

It's Day 4 of the 90 day Bible Project for First Student Ministries.  A few years ago, I decided that I wanted to read through the Bible in a year.  It was a good year.  These guys are doing it in 90 days.  They've done the math and they say with just about 45 minutes and 12 pages a day, they can pull it off.  I love it.  What a amazing feat.  Their encouraging the students in their ministry and their families to join them.

Not only that but they are cataloging the journey on their website.  Each day at midnight they put up a new video, a new key verse for the day and a link to to a new resource that will help people in this adventure.  Each week's message at their program night will focus on the scripture reading for the previous week.  Check out their site to follow the daily updates. Check out their sweet video archive.  Join them if you dare. 

With this amazing new postcard feature, you can set your SnapShot Website up to send eCards.  What this means is that someone from your community can come to your site, enter a friend's name and email, and send them an invitation to an event or a service.  We put together a quick demo to show you the feature in action.  Check this out.

Check out this Church site that has the Postcard module up and running.

This feature is included with SnapShot Pro or can be added to a SnapShot Plus or Lite site for $50 a year.  Send us an email at support@snapshotweb.com if you want us to get it set up for you.

SnapShot Web keeps getting better.  Check out the new advanced podcasting option.  There are all sorts of sweet options included with the module, including "email a friend", subscribe, play now, download, and retweet.  You've got to see this one in action.  Check out the video that will give you a quick tour.