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.
Posts under ‘Conversion Goals’
Strategy vs. Tactics and your Social Media Activities
Strategy is the immutable forest. Tactics vary with circumstances, like as do individual trees in the forest. Learn the difference and how it impacts your organization’s social media activities.
Did Twitter just jump the credibility shark with #twitterlied?
Here’s another lesson we can take from Twitters poor handling of their @ replies notification setting problem: don’t tell users that they’re the problem when it is your system that’s sick (e.g.#FixReplies + #TwitterFail vs. #TwitterLied)
weekend open thread: What Heals your Church Website?
I want comments on the following question: what actually heals your church website? Is it using WordPress over Joomla? Is it adding a Twitter widget to your sidebar? Or is it adding more spinning animated gifs of gold lamé crosses? I want your input – so leave a comment.
5 Things Churches and Charities can learn from Google
So how did Google become a verb? Glad you asked … it did so by building an organization around intelligent people who understood how to grow the corporate needs around what the customer wanted. Put in more “Christian” terms, it’s about satisfying one’s self by first serving others.
5 things we can learn from the SiteMeter debacle
Filed under “If it ain’t broke don’t Fix it,”SiteMeter, a webpage tracking service popular with pundit blogs, was compelled to roll-back a deployment and issue a public apology after they messed-up badly when they deployed new features that inflamed the blogosphere more than the myth that Palin and Obama are the pawns of an upcoming alien abduction to convert both Christians and Muslims to tenents of XENU. The end result were a number of prominent A-list political bloggers voicing dissatisfaction with the new SiteMeter reminiscent of the New Coke disaster of 1985.
5 things we can learn from the office candy machine
I just overheard a useful conversation between two vending machine operators while loading up our office junk food dispenser with a bunch of products that didn’t sell last week. It is if nothing else, an object lesson in contrast to my oft quoted aphorism “solve their problems, don’t tell them yours.” Here are 5 things we can in turn do in contrast to improve the user experience on our church and/or charity websites …
Jakob Nielsen: Four Bad Designs and a 403 error to boot!
What could be more ironic than to receive an email from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox on the topic of “Bad content, bad links, bad navigation, bad category pages” that links to a page that throws a 403, permission access denied page?-) Fortunately for you, I got screenshots, followed by some commentary on the article once the good folks at UseIt.com realized the error or their ways.
