Discover Tab Guide

Engaging with people is now easier than ever with our pre-packaged Kits and Templates found in the Discover tab.

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Written by Brian Knollman
Updated over a week ago

Our Discover tab is designed to connect you with a wide variety of resources, downloadable content, strategies, and pre-written text messages to help you become even more effective in engaging with people. You can save time and energy using these tried and true resources curated from our partners.

What can you find in Discover?

The Discover tab is arranged as lists of cards that you can click into and use. Each card will tell you what type of resource it contains.

These cards are arranged into categories based on the resource it offers:

  • Featured: Check out our new, popular, and featured resources in this section

  • Favorites: Any resource that you have favorited will be saved here for easy use later.

  • Hubs: Easily find all of the resources from a specific partner in one place.

    • One key piece of the Discover tab is the He Gets Us Hub. This Hub contains all of the resources made available to you by the He Gets Us Campaign.

  • Kits: A collection of resources to execute a strategy. A Kit will often contain several different Templates and resources, as well as a guide on how to effectively use the Kit.

  • Scholarships: Gloo partner organizations are generously offering scholarships that you can take advantage of to advance your training and ministry.

  • Downloads: Files available to save- usually a guide, walkthrough, or creative asset designed to help you

  • Links: External online content supplementary to the rest of the resources in a Kit

  • Broadcast Templates: Templated one time text messages to blast to your people

  • Series Templates: Templated text messages sent over time that someone can opt into receiving- usually with devotional content or daily prayer prompts

  • Keyword Templates: Templated single response texts that are sent based on a trigger word- usually used to easily distribute additional links and resources to your people

Choosing and Activating a Kit

  1. Navigate to the Discover tab.

  2. Use the Topic, Author, and Type filters at the top of the page, search for a specific resource, or scroll to find something that interests you.

  3. Click into the Kit that fits an engagement need at your church.

  4. Get an overview of the Kit at the top.

    Note: You can click Favorite to save the Kit for easy viewing later. Any favorited Kits will appear in your Favorites section on the main Discover page.

  5. View the resource cards below. Note the different types of resources included in your Kit.

  6. Follow the instructions for each resource card. (See next sections for more specific guidance on activating each type of resource.)

    Important: After saving a text Template (ie- Broadcast, Series, Keyword, or Survey), you will receive a message that your template was saved. Simply navigate to the corresponding feature tab under your Engage menu to view and make future edits to that Template.

Scholarships

Several generous partners are providing scholarships to cover different trainings and ministry opportunities that are available to all Gloo users. Just click on the scholarship to learn more about how to take advantage of it!

Downloads

  1. Click into a Download card.

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  2. View information about what’s included and how to use the resource.

  3. Click Download.

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Links

  1. Click into a Link card.

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  2. View information about why the link is available in a particular Kit.

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  3. Click Open Link in New Tab.

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Series Templates

  1. Click the Series Template card.

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  2. Only for Fixed Series Templates (not Rolling): Select the date you'd want the series to start. Then click Start.


    Note: The starting date will typically be the Sunday you are launching the series. Unsure what date that is? Don't worry! You can always edit the dates later.

  3. View any instructions and tips at the top.

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  4. Add, edit or change the keywords.

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  5. Update any of the text you want in the messages.

    Important: Make sure to edit and customize any of the [bracketed] content. Any content in {{curly brackets}}, however, is smart text that will be automatically filled in by the system.

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  6. Scroll to the bottom and click Save and your new Series is live! Find it later to edit and review subscribers in the Series tab of your account under your Engage menu.

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Keyword Templates

  1. Click into the Keyword Template card.

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  2. View any instructions and tips at the top.

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  3. Edit or change the keyword options. Next, update any of the text you want sent back.

    Important: Make sure to edit any of the [bracketed] content with your church or ministry details. Any content in {{curly brackets}}, however, is smart text that will be automatically filled in by the system.

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  4. Click Create and your new keyword is live in your account! Find it later to edit and review interactions in the Keywords tab of your account under your Engage menu.

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Broadcast Templates

  1. Click into the Broadcast Template card.

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  2. View any instructions and tips at the top.

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  3. Edit or change the text getting sent.

    Important: Make sure to edit any of the [bracketed] content with your church or ministry details. Any content in {{curly brackets}}, however, is smart text that will be automatically filled in by the system.

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  4. Select the recipients you'd like the message to go to. Select whether you'd like to send now or schedule for later.

  5. Click Preview Broadcast.

  6. Review your broadcast details. When you're ready, click Create and your message is scheduled to go out or is already on its way!

    Note: You can find a history of your broadcasts and view/edit upcoming scheduled broadcasts in the Broadcasts tab of your account under your Engage menu.

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