May 13, 2009
by meandean
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Twitter, in fiddling around with their @ replies notification setting, created a firestorm of outrage among the known twitterverse manifesting itself into to hash mark campaigns entitled ‘#fixreplies’ and ‘#twitterfail’ respectively. Continue reading
December 10, 2008
by meandean
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Twitter gives our mundane lives meaning, that’s why it beat the snot out of a more ‘feature-rich’ Pownce. To prove my point, let’s rewind about a year and a half ago to Tamar Weinberg’s comparison entitled ‘Twitter vs. Pownce: Who … Continue reading
November 13, 2008
by meandean
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Ever get that annoying email from a church, friend, and/or family member who ‘accidentally’ sent a rant to everyone in their address book and/or a group-related email directory? Here’s how I respond to one such instance of a Christian SPAM email bombing run. Feel free to copy or link them to it my post to educate them on why this is such a poor practice of netiquette. Continue reading
November 6, 2008
by meandean
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Last week, while attending the MS PDC 2008, Ray Ozzie got all jumbo-tron’d at me about Azure and cloud computing. Here’s what it means to you and your church computing operations – now that I’ve had a bit more than … Continue reading
October 10, 2008
by meandean
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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.
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October 2, 2008
by meandean
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Online office suites are great, usually missing only one or two applications I need to enhance a presentation and/or document. That missing link sometimes being a paint or paintbrush tool such as Photoshop, Photo Impact and/or MS Paint. That’s okay … Continue reading
September 30, 2008
by meandean
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Crowdsourcing describes the act of outsourcing a task to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. Moderator is a new tool from Google that facilitates this practice by posing your question to the … Continue reading
September 23, 2008
by meandean
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Now that the new Twitter user interface (UI) has had a few days to shake itself out, here are 5 things I think the webmasters of church and charity websites might learn from Twitter’s simple, yet effective changes: Continue reading