Services offered by the Department of Internet Ministries
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If you are interested in any of these services, be sure to download the request form. Note: You will need Acrobat Reader to view this file.
For more details, check out our FAQ's or contact the department.
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Archdiocese Website - www.goarch.org
In 2002, Internet Ministries launched a new web site for the Archdiocese. This new web site, made possible by a grant from Leadership 100, offers new and revolutionary tools for Archdiocesan communications and parish ministry. The new site contains dozens of new features including: a completely new site design, a new calendar of saints lives, an online chapel with the daily Gospel and Epistle readings, a module to assist parishes build their weekly bulletin online, a searchable national calendar of events, weekly video programs, and a new online parish directory.
Read more about the Archdiocese Website
Bulletin BuilderDownload: Bulletin Builder Brochure [655KB]
Bulletin Builder is a revolutionary tool created to assist parishes in their ministry. Built by the Department of Internet Ministries, through the generous vision and support of Leadership 100, Bulletin Builder will enable you to build the various parts of your parish bulletin online and then publish your finished bulletin on your parish website, via email, and as a printed booklet.
To begin building your bulletin, go to http://www.bulletin.goarch.org/
For your website, you will need a domain name. You can register your own domain with a public registrar (such as www.namecheap.com) or we can create a domain name for free through goarch.org. Your parish web site address would follow the pattern of your parish name, followed by the 2 letter abbreviation of your state, followed by "goarch.org". So if your parish was Saint George in Brockton, Massachusetts, your address could be: stgeorge.ma.goarch.org.
See our FAQs for more information.
Through the Archdiocese servers, we offer parishes free email hosting for your parish domain name. Please begin by filling out the services request form to begin the process. If you already have your website hosted with us, fill out a help desk request to activate your email accounts. Once connected, you will be able to check your email via a POP3 or IMAP client or through a web interface.
LISTSERV sets the standard for e-mail list management software. It allows users to create and maintain e-mail lists on the Internet. List sizes can range from a few participants in a discussion group to several million in a newsletter. LISTSERV is renowned for its flexibility, scalability and time-tested performance. Utilizing this software, we are able to give every parish a number of free listserv accounts. A member may join or leave the list whenever he or she wants. The personal e-mail addresses of the individual list members are protected and kept confidential. The list messages are automatically turned into searchable web archives every time e-mail is sent out.
Live Internet Broadcasting of Services
Internet Ministries provides the live video broadcasting of services over the Internet to desktop computers in Adobe Flash format and simultaneous broadcasts to mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android phones and tablets. Each week, the Archdiocese broadcasts the liturgical services of the Orthodox Church via the Internet live. Since beginning this service for parishes in 1997, the department has broadcast thousands of liturgical services and hundreds of educational classes. A full listing of live broadcasts is available online at live.goarch.org. For costs, please see our pricing page.
We offer server space for hosting audio and video files on our dedicated Multimedia server. See our pricing chart or contact the department for more information.
Do you use the Online Chapel for your daily readings and lives of the Saints? If you would like to extend this ministry to the visitors of your parish website, you may want to consider signing up for the Online Chapel Home Page snippet. For more information, contact our Department.
For a sample, check out http://www.sngoc.org
Orthodox Marketplace Referral Sales Program
Parishes within the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America were rolled into a special affiliate sales website in 2006. Whenever a person visits the Orthodox Marketplace by clicking on a specific link that includes the unique affiliate code assigned to a parish, 10% of that person's order is put into a referral sales commission account for that parish. Once the account reaches a $100 threshold in a given month, that parish will be mailed a check for that month.
To learn more about the program, visit the Orthodox Marketplace help section
Check out our listing of RSS and News Feeds to stay informed and connected to the information on the archdiocese website even when you're not browsing the web. http://www.goarch.org/rss/
The Department of Internet Ministries has expanded its web hosting services to include non-GOA parishes and organizations. The Department continues to offer free web hosting for parishes and organizations of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Canonical Orthodox parishes (those under SCOBA) who are not part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America will receive a discounted rate for web hosting. Hosting is also available for all other parishes, organizations, and businesses.
See our pricing chart for more information and to get started.
For those parishes who need Secure Socket Layer (SSL) capabilities for their website, we are able to offer SSL registration and hosting.
See our pricing chart for more information
The department of Internet Ministries is offering web site templates for parishes under SCOBA. Free and paid packages are available. Each template package comes with a ready-to-go CSS / HTML page, supplementary graphics, and dynamic templates (PHP or ASP). For information or to purchase these templates, please contact the Department of Internet Ministries.
See our template gallery for more information
