I often wonder what other Communications Director’s work days look like. From chatting with a few of you they all seem different. Every Communications Director who serves in a church seems to have a different strength which helps shape their week. I thought I would share what my last week looked like.
Monday
- Heads of Department meet early for coffee to connect and catch up about what happening around the church.
- Meet with my videographer to plan and project upcoming Video News and other video projects.
- Prepare and email out ‘Going Deeper’ resource that is distributed to all of our Church to take Sunday into their week.
- Make some small updates to our website wireframing that I’ve put together.
- Finalise a project proposal for our next iteration of the church website.
- Contact a vendor with questions about their proposal.
- Make alterations to a draft of our next ‘Welcome’ brochure and email them back to the designer.
- Not have enough coffee.
- Respond to emails.
Tuesday
- Late in, it’s my birthday!
- Meet with our Christmas production producer to talk PR and video promotion, branding and social media strategy.
- Weekly preachers team meeting to review the last week and plan ahead with a view for series branding.
- Weekly Tuesday planning team meeting to review last weeks service and upcoming services.
- Write a blog post on 3 Insightful Questions You Need To Answer Before You Start Your Next Project
- Create a graphic for our Facebook page.
- Schedule work and write brief for my graphic designer for a new sermon series.
Wednesday
- Spend some time working through some strategy with my PR person.
- Design a Facebook picture post.
- Work through some issues with our awesome IT team.
- Sit down with my communications team for a very brief morning coffee and talk about life and work.
- Talk to my web developer about some potential way forward for the next iteration of our website.
- Have lunch with a para-church ministry leader who is also a client.
- Meet with our Missional Communities Pastor to help understand his requirements and needs for 2013.
- Respond to emails.
- Find out Disney just bought Star Wars out. Oh no. Who’s next? LOTR?
Thursday
- Contribute to Church Communication Labs Flickr page.
- Design a Facebook picture post.
- Celebrate the birthday of one my design team.
- Discuss wireframes and content strategy for our website with a ministry partner.
- Meet with another ministry partner to help them achieve their goals.
- Ghost write an article for a member of staff.
- Discuss some technical issues about video content for our 2012 Christmas Appeal with a colleague.
- Prepare brief for graphic designers.
- Interact with our way-finding system designers on some production queries.
- Write a blog post Why Promoted Facebook Page Posts Are A Smart Social Tactic.
Friday
- Give feedback on the Church Communication Labs Flickr page.
- Sit down with the weekend preacher and run through their message with them.
- Reviewing Christmas Production graphics with graphic designer.
- Catch up lunch with Communications Directors of two other churches in Melbourne
- Review Christmas marketing collateral.
- Clearing up emails.
- Brief designers.
- Off early for a long weekend of camping!
If you are a Communications Director for a church or non-profit I’d love to know what your week looks like! Comment below.
