CWADD: Church Website Attention Deficit Disorder
Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | 2 Comments »I write today to bring to your attention a growing malady among those seeking to find a church home online. Today I write about CWADD: Church Website Attention Deficit Disorder - a growing disease that continues to make our crufty ...
A comparative cornucopia of online office ’sweets’
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Reading Room, Theology | 7 Comments »Microsoft Office is dead - at least that is the conclusion I read between the lines of a "Read/WriteWeb article" by Richard MacManus. Taking the opportunity of today's public beta release of Zoho's Meeting, MacManus compares and considers ...
WiPeer: near perfect tool for your church office and meetings
Monday, June 18th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Resource Filled | No Comments »WiPeer is a suite of applications for collaboration in server-less situations, such as committee meetings, retreats and/or church conferences. These applications include forming local social networks, chatting, file sharing, searching among shared files in other computers, and interactive multiplayer games. What ...
gMail Temporary Error (502)
Friday, June 15th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | No Comments »As big a fan as I am of the Software as as Service (SaaS) model, it does have its downside - mosty when the server (or servers) the service is on goes down. Such was the case this morning here ...
Microsoft’s Craig Mundie missing the point about mobility
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 1 Comment »I can’t believe what I just heard on BBC TV, Microsoft’s Craig Mundie saying two stupid things: He doesn’t see software moving off the desktop and onto the web space; and He believes computers need to become more helpful.” And for this ...
Enough with the Bread and BReakfast markup already!
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 10 Comments »'B and BReakfast markup' is a handy mnemonic mechanism to memorize not to semantically collude your online sermons and studies with misused < b > and < br > taggery. At some point, those of us fielding sermons, Bible studies and ...
Users upset over Google Analytics outage
Friday, May 25th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | No Comments »"The [Google Analytics] service suffered outages of more than 24 hours this week, prompting affected users to wonder if Google intends to improve its performance and outage response ... Most affected users reported problems on Tuesday and Wednesday, although some ...
What we can learn from Web 2.0 success from blogs4God’s mistakes
Monday, April 30th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | 5 Comments »Understanding changing trends in sociological activities is a key to understanding how users will interact with your systems. Which is why pastors are as concerned with getting their arms around the impact of the emerging church as webmasters are about ...
Leveraging disruptive technologies built around emerging behaviors
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 1 Comment »How much is your church web site built around dogma and/or polity rather then the online patterns and practices of your congregants? You've secured your church website against outside changes introduced by outlaws sneaking in the back door, and that's good, but guess ...
How DO You Serve Two Masters?
Sunday, September 5th, 2004 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, How-To | 8 Comments »To partially quote Matthew 6:24: "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other." The Good Book was talking about God and money, ...
“Suppose one of you
Thursday, May 1st, 2003 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | 2 Comments »"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? For if he lays the foundation and is not ...
blogs and camera phones
Wednesday, January 8th, 2003 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | 1 Comment »The The Register reports that NewBay Software, a Dublin-based start-up is going to offer software to mobile operators that will enable mobile phone users to create and maintain Weblogs or "blogs" using only their phones. Now while this is a ...
