You’ve been asking for it for a couple of years, and now we can officially answer “Yes!”
Over the past 2 years we’ve received this question literally hundreds of times: “Can I use Clover for my small business?”
Our answer has typically been something like: “Yeah, you can. You’ll just have to be creative with using the tools created for ministries on your business site.” But now, we have opened up cloversites.com to any small business, artist, non-profit, or industry you can think of. The internet-wide problem of not being able to have a decent looking site that you can manage without spending a fortune is now over.
Now that Summer is officially in full swing, it means that we’re about to start our third round of Clover Gives. We haven’t publicized it very much, but every quarter starting in 2010, we’re taking the first month’s hosting payment from new purchases and giving it to charity. The first quarter we chose Children’s Hunger Fund and for the last three months, it’s been Gaba Bible Institute.
Thanks to you all, we cut a check to Gaba yesterday that we believe will have a great impact on their ministry. We feel so grateful to be a small part in what God is doing through them. They have a unique set of programs that is raising up leaders and training pastors to ultimately transform the communities in Uganda.
For the next three months, we’ve chosen a ministry that I personally support and believe in: The Well in Thailand. I’ll quote their website since I probably can’t explain their organization as well as they can. Read More…
As of today, all site design switches are only $200.
With the new Greenhouse launched and more capabilities available to Clover users, we wanted to give you a chance to “freshen up”. If you haven’t noticed the earlier post, we’ve also released some brand new site designs to inspire you. Read More…
We’ve just released 3 new site designs for you. We know it’s been a while since we’ve released new designs, but with the launch of the new Greenhouse things have been a bit hectic around here. The new site designs are Brighton, Vetica, and Woodland. Read More…
A couple weeks ago we gave away an iPad on Justin Taylor’s blog “Between Two Worlds”. To enter the contest, visitors were asked to post a comment about “someone in your life who has taught you how to love Christ more, and follow him more closely.”
In the six days the contest ran, people wrote in on what is quite possibly the first blog post in the history of the internet to have 1091 encouraging comments in a row.
If you have some extra time, the entire list of comments is pretty amazing to read as well. It definitely encouraged us to be that kind of person in someone else’s life.
As of 2:30AM this morning, all sites have been officially switched over. It’s been a long few weeks getting all the final little bugs worked out, but it’s done. Thanks everyone for your ample amounts of patience on this roll out. We couldn’t be more happy to get this new tool out to all you guys!
Here are a few videos highlighting the new Greenhouse (Thanks Jacob and Bjorn for the great 3 out of 4 videos below… I did horribly capturing the bottom video. Sorry.):
This last quarter we introduced Clover Gives. We decided to give away the first month hosting payment from every new site purchase, and choose an awesome non-profit to donate to each quarter. I was supposed to blog on this at the beginning of the month, but due to the obvious development of the new Greenhouse, all social media exploits have been slow-going. Sorry about that- I’ll get better after April 28th!
This month’s non-profit Clover will be supporting is Gaba Bible Institute, based out of Kampala, Uganda. You can check their (rather well-designed) website at http://www.gbiuganda.org.
We just announced the winners of the Clover site and swag giveaway through our friends at the Echo Conference. Echo did a special giveaway for registrants into their conference (July 28th-30th in Dallas).
Here they are:
Free Clover Website & 1 Year of hosting: Jonathan Ramos – Jesus Exaltado
Clover “Be a part of something beautiful” T-Shirts:
Craig Mashburn – Southwest Church of Christ
Cody Jensen – CityChurch
Michael Garner – Northeast Baptist Church
Erico Rovayo – Faith Generation Youth Church
Candace Payne – Inglewood Baptist Church
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Congrats everyone. Those who won the T-Shirts better rock them at Echo.
If you are a techie in the church world, you should seriously consider attending the Echo Conference. These guys have worked their butts off to give you the best info and inspiration for you and your ministry.
