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What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parable.

What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parable:

I think I encountered this particular ‘brand’ of Church marketing when I first moved down to the Raleigh burbs of Apex.
It does inspire me to want to ‘reel-off’ a parody of “what if Amazon.com sold books like a Church website?”
Hmmmm …

WordCamp Raleigh 2010, Liveblogging, Day 2

Once more, I’m live blogging from WordPress WordCamp Raleigh (#wcraleigh) here at the Sheraton in Downtown Raleigh. I’ll be posting notes from sessions on managing events in WordPress and how powerusers can get the most out of multimedia via WordPress. Stay-tuned, I’ll be posting often all morning.

WordCamp Raleigh 2010, Liveblogging, Day 1, Afternoon Session

As I anticipated, it’s been GREAT meeting all sorts of neat people here at WordCamp Raleigh (#wcraleigh).
1:00 PM Grant Swaim

How to biuld a membership-style website
The presentation is at Google Docs.

Basically the presenter is reciting the google doc … I’m going next door to the sitecast.
1:00 PM Ryan Duff
Saving Youself TIme WHen Setting UP a [...]

WordCamp Raleigh 2010, Liveblogging, Day 1, Morning Sessions

One advantage to living in the peak of good living,  Apex, NC, is that I’m about a 15 to 20 minute drive from downtown Raleigh, the site of WordCamp Raleigh 2010 – where today I’ll put on my best effort to live blog about the various sessions and people I discover here.
I already know it’s [...]

Usability and Daylight Saving Time

Let’s talk a little about the usability frustrations we put up with in the name of daylight saving time – and see if we can’t cobble together an object lesson for our web design.
Okay, so in my best Andy Rooney imitation:
Why is it we can put a man on the moon, yet somehow we still [...]

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)

5 Things that heal your church website

What actually heals a church website? Here are 5 remedies I have to offer based on some of the many excellent comments in response to last Friday’s open comment post on the same topic.

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.