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!

Measuring Fruitfulness

How we define and measure fruitfulness in the digital ministry context

Cru Digital Ecosystem

Directory of the supported apps and sites we use for ministry

Assets

Adobe Experience Manager - Digital Asset Management (DAM)

Dealing with Assets in AEM can be cumbersome but it is in your best interest to have a plan set in place when adding assets (images, videos, pdfs) to AEM. 

 

Digital Asset Management

A digital asset management (DAM) platform gives you a central hub for organizing, storing, and retrieving rich media that connects to your other enterprise software solutions, ensuring a consistent experience across the customer journey.

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The DAM system is there for you to collaborate with other staff members across the ministry. Find a photo that you like and think it fits well with the kind of content you're putting out? Use that photo. We do recommend to be careful with photos though, as we want to be aware that some photos may or may not have an expiration date on when they are allowed to be used. Proper governance measures should be taken when evaluating whether a photo is allowed or was taken without permission originally and placed in AEM.

 

Take a look at the documentation we currently have available on Assets:

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