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What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parable.

What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parable:

I think I encountered this particular ‘brand’ of Church marketing when I first moved down to the Raleigh burbs of Apex.
It does inspire me to want to ‘reel-off’ a parody of “what if Amazon.com sold books like a Church website?”
Hmmmm …

Setting up multiple test sites in XAMPP via virtual sites

It’s NEVER a good idea to test new designs, programs and/or learn new stuff on a production website. This article describes how to create multiple virtual servers on a Windows 7 platform using XAMPP to create a perfect Linux/Apache like test bed.

WordCamp Raleigh 2010, Liveblogging, Day 2

Once more, I’m live blogging from WordPress WordCamp Raleigh (#wcraleigh) here at the Sheraton in Downtown Raleigh. I’ll be posting notes from sessions on managing events in WordPress and how powerusers can get the most out of multimedia via WordPress. Stay-tuned, I’ll be posting often all morning.

WordCamp Raleigh 2010, Liveblogging, Day 1, Afternoon Session

As I anticipated, it’s been GREAT meeting all sorts of neat people here at WordCamp Raleigh (#wcraleigh).
1:00 PM Grant Swaim

How to biuld a membership-style website
The presentation is at Google Docs.

Basically the presenter is reciting the google doc … I’m going next door to the sitecast.
1:00 PM Ryan Duff
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WordCamp Raleigh 2010, Liveblogging, Day 1, Morning Sessions

One advantage to living in the peak of good living,  Apex, NC, is that I’m about a 15 to 20 minute drive from downtown Raleigh, the site of WordCamp Raleigh 2010 – where today I’ll put on my best effort to live blog about the various sessions and people I discover here.
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Bad idea design poster #11 – Canned Content

I’m getting very excited about the upcoming Word Camp Raleigh … just so long as we don’t get so focused on premium themes, theme frameworks and plugins at the expense of discussing how-to develop a sensible information architecture that suites the goals of your church and/or charity.

Fun with the Twitter Search API and jQuery

Yes, I am bit of an API junkie. Anyone whose followed my blog since 2002 probably has gone blind once or twice reading posts about SOAP, XML-RPC, RSS feed and other such fun.

So why should anyone be surprised that today I’m providing a quick how-to code snippet of some fun I’m having with the Twitter Search API, REST, jQuery and jSON?

The Facebook Activity Feed Widget Plugin for Wordpress

I’m pleased to announce the initial release of my 2nd social media plugin, the Facebook Activity Widget Plugin for Wordpress. Simply put, it automates the display of a Facebook Activity Feed on the sidebar of your blog by making it a easy-to-configure widget.

For those who may not be aware of what the Facebook Activity Feed is, it is a ’social plugin’ displays the most interesting recent activity taking place on your personal website and/or blog.