Set Your Goal

You want to be effective in digital ministry. Set SMART goals. (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely).

Know Your Audience

How to create a persona, based on research, educated assumptions, and real experiences. to help you in digital ministry.

Social Media Basics

Best practices and key tips as you get started in the world of social media for ministry.

Create a Journey

A content journey is taking your user through a digital journey, step-by-step, going from one call to action (CTA) to another.

Intro to Analytics

Analytics can help you see where God is at work in people’s lives online, and evaluate the effectiveness of your digital efforts.

Put It All Together

Final instructions for a new digital strategist.

Marketing to Expand Your Reach

This section provides training and resources to help you grow in your marketing capabilities.

Analytics

Find playbooks for using and leading with analytics, webinars, and step-by-step guides for using our Cru analytics tools.

Social Media Management

Find training and how-tos for managing your social media channels as well as running social media campaigns.

Email Campaign Management

Find helpful resources to help you get started with Adobe Campaign and to run your first email campaign.

Content Management Systems

Cru supports two content management systems that can host your website: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and WordPress.

Learning Management Systems

Find helpful resources to help you get started with the right Learning Management System (LMS) to fit your training needs.

Downloads

Worksheets and diagrams to help you plan your strategy

Glossary

What does THAT mean? Find the answer here!

Cru Digital Ecosystem

Directory of the supported apps and sites we use for ministry

Troubleshooting

Access the CMS

Access Eligibility

Cru's content management system is only available to members that are given permission to use our system. 

With proper access, users can access the CMS admin conosole within the Cru network by visiting the following URL:

https://author.cru.org/

Login Information

Users will be redirected to the Cru login screen. Please enter in the email address and associated password to proceed further. If an error screen pops up, that means your user has not been given permissions. Please reach out to aem@cru.org if you feel that the error screen is an issue that should not appear for you.

Removing Access

If a specific user is no longer required access to the CMS, please promptly alert the AEM team (aem@cru.org) so the access can be terminated as soon as possible.

 

Troubleshooting

AEM admin portal is not loading (or returns a blank page).
The AEM CMS is only accessible within the Cru network. If you need to access the CMS Authoring Environment, you will need to connect using the Cru VPN when you are using public networks.

I'm not able to access a specific page/folder that I'm supposed to manage.
Please contact the DPS AEM team at aem@cru.org for page/folder access issue.

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