Vista vs. Ubuntu and the value proposition of a work in progress
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Reading Room | 3 Comments »Last Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer created a virtual firestorm when he said the following about the much maligned Vista operating system: Windows Vista: A work in progress. [Laughter, applause.] A very important piece of work, and I think we did ...
10 ways WordPress 2.5 will help you manage your church blog
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Resource Filled | 1 Comment »Though still under development, the upcoming release of WordPress 2.5 is already receiving some very positive reviews. One in particular I'd like to share with you from a church-blogging perspective is entitled '10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress ...
5 non-technical reasons your church or charity needs to consider using Google Aps
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Fast Five | No Comments »Microsoft Office doesn't just cost you $139 per user, it also costs you in money and man-hours required to manage keeping the various products up-to-date, secured, and backed-up on computer hardware that often requires additional disk and/or RAM with each ...
How to setup Google Sites for your website’s Wiki page
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, How-To | No Comments »I feel like a little boy yelling down the street to announce the arrival of the circus. "They're here! They're Here! They're HERE!" Yes folks, the JotSpot WIKI technology that Google acquired back in October of 2006 is now a ...
YourMap - an easier way to integrate Google Maps into your church website
Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, How-To | 7 Comments »Back in August, I posted a 10-step "How to (really) embed Google Maps on your church website." Yesterday, I received a really nice email from Mickey of Church Website Help & Google Earth Hacks informing me he's developed a free ...
Does XML have a future on the web?
Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | 1 Comment »I'm attending the XML 2007 Conference in Boston - sitting in on a plenary session entitled "Does the XML have a future on the web?" What I hope to share with you is a debate between two interesting and intriguing ...
A good example of why online video trumps audio podcasts
Sunday, October 28th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Disruptive Innovation | 5 Comments »With a show of hands, who here would rather listen to me podcast my upcoming visit Petra? How many would rather see the Temple of Hercules as online video at blogJordan.com? I asked my 7 year-old daughter that ...
Pardon my dyslexia sir, but your Arabic is backwards!
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Luke 6:42 | No Comments »You would think with all the World traveling with which I've been blessed that I wouldn't blunder about like such a stupid Yank! Fat chance. Seems that by trusting a Google English to Arabic translation of "blogJordan" gave me all ...
5 Reasons to wait-n-see if Microsoft’s Office Live survives
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Reading Room | 2 Comments »Working for a company whose CEO once described it as 'the poster child for Software as a Service,' it should be no surprise that I'm taking a 'wait and see' approach to Microsoft's entry into their 'Software Plus Service' ...
5 outside the box uses for Google Presentations out of the box
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Fast Five | 5 Comments »Five outside-the-box things you can do with the new Google Presentation application fresh out of the box, including breaking down physical, geographic and even denominational barriers. Last April at the SIIA and Web 2.0 conferences, several Microsoft pundits made fun of ...
5 things about Google Aps that concern me
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Fast Five | 2 Comments »I'm a Google aps kinda guy. Even so, there are some aspects of this powerful little office 'sweet' that concern me. Here are 5 things I'd recommend any church, charity or other community organization consider and be on guard about ...
Signs & blunders: Baptist Press misses the mark[eting]
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 4 Comments »Woody Murray's recent article in the Baptist Press entitled 'Church signs are key to outreach' once again exemplifies the failure of the Church to understand the impact of individual and household web usage on various community outreach and ...
