Good questions, Phil. I don't personally know any answers, unfortunately. I'd love to hear more about your project and how it turns out. I'm hoping others on the network will have some ideas.
ideas for a church communications survey
Mavis Moon on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 11:09pm
Wendy Hammond on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 11:41am
You might check with either the research center at Calvin College or the Pew Forum website.
Keith McKenzie on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 5:05pm
you might try kemmeyer.com, a website/blog of the communications director of Grainger Community Church. You also might try churchmarketingsucks.com.
Rebecca L on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 6:04pm
Sounds like a really interesting project. Like the others, I unfortunately have no suggestions, but am very interested in what you learn.
For a master's in communications I am pursuing here in Grand Rapids at Grand Valley State University, I am doing a study of my church's communications: Facebook, website, bulletin announcements, prayer chains, etc. I would like to do a survey of the church members, asking them about comm preferences, tools they use, that sort of thing.
Does anyone know of any such surveys that I could use as a starting point vs starting from scratch? What about any such studies that might have been published? Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Phil de Haan, First CRC, Grand Rapids