May 20, 2008
by meandean
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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 …
May 6, 2008
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Last night while listening to various speculations as why the horse that ‘placed’ at the Kentucky Derby was put down, my mind drifted to 5 things Eight Belles has in common with many church webmasters I know, including … Continue reading
April 18, 2008
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I realize, understand, and respect the Catholic tenant that their faith is built upon a combination of Scripture and historic tradition. That said, there’s no reason the Vatican website should continue to ineffectively rock like it’1999. With that in mind, here are 5 things I’d do to enhance the Holy See website to better publicize and describe Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15-21, 2008 Apostolic Journey to the United States of America and visit to the United Nations Organization Headquarters: Continue reading
March 24, 2008
by meandean
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What is it with fundamental, KJV only, pre-millennial, independent Baptist churches and web design that wants to party like it’s 1999? Case in point, the website for the Faith Baptist Church of Dayton Ohio. Continue reading
March 11, 2008
by meandean
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I find too many church websites putting their best information out of reach. Hence the idea driving today’s bad church web design poster is best sung to the tune of Nat King Cole’s classic, “Unforgettable” followed by my usual pithy enumeration of this pesky issue: Continue reading
March 5, 2008
by meandean
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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 iteration of Office and/or the Windows operating system. Why bother with all that hassle when Google now provides the education edition of Google Aps to non-profits with current 501(c)(3) status in the U.S.?
February 27, 2008
by meandean
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Here are 5 comments from visitors that I think are worth restating in a post as they each address larger issues facing many of us who design, develop, deploy and maintain church and/or charity websites. The format will be a brief on what the original article stated, and then snippets of what the commenter contributed; so in no particular order: Continue reading
January 28, 2008
by meandean
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‘Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data’ is how the headline read last week describing an alleged incident of data sabotage where an employee … here’s what you can do to prevent your church or charity from suffering a similar fate. Continue reading