• The Episcopal Church Writing Style Guide

  • Caffeinated Church: a collaborated project between several diocese, and membership gives you access to tons of curated resources, workshops, conferences, collaboration meetings, and professional development opportunities for church communicators and administrators. Membership for an individual is $60 per year; for a church (up to 5 individuals) is $100 per year.

 

Communication Plans

 

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Project Collaboration

 

  • Slack: allows different people to work, simultaneously on projects through a computer interface or mobile app. Also supports audio and video calls. 

  • Trello: manage group projects through the computer interface or a mobile app

  • Google Drive: share files and folders online for group collaboration.

  • Dropbox: share files and folders online for group collaboration. 

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Copyright

 

Churches must abide by copyright laws. Copyright laws are there to protect the rights of creators of content and to give credit where credit is due. We, especially as the Church, need to make sure we always follow copyright best practices and honor the work of others.

IMAGES

There are many great resources for copyright-free images. In our Graphic Design resource area there are many copyright free image resources available for your use. There are also paid services where you can purchase photos and images for your use.

CONTENT

Text, images, music, videos, etc that you find online are not free for you to use on your site or in your publications. You can quote material and cite the source; or you can simply add a link to the original source for more information and is a best practice for web content.

COPYRIGHT GUIDELINES FOR CHURCHES

 

Email

 

It is considered best practice to use an organization email addresses for your church. John@StSwithens.org for example. Avoid using personal email addresses for staff.  Any reliable web host will have domain email as a service you can include, if it is not already included in what you pay for with your website hosting; they will have help for you to get it done. Also, if you control email accounts through church-owned email addresses, you can recover them when people leave, get sick, go on vacation, etc. 

Churches and nonprofits can apply to have Google Apps for Nonprofits, which you can get for free. You get 30GB per user mail storage included. Also, you can set a domain policy to NOT allow forwarding of information to personal accounts, ensuring that your church business stays were it can be audited if necessary. To apply for Google Apps for Nonprofits, you'll want to use the EIN for the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa.  If you have any questions, please contact Anne Wagner.

Photo Releases

 

Sample Photo policy and release from the Diocese of Colorado

Writing & Editing