November 24, 2010
by meandean
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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 … Continue reading
May 23, 2010
by meandean
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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. Continue reading
May 22, 2010
by meandean
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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 … Continue reading
May 22, 2010
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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 … Continue reading
November 2, 2009
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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 … Continue reading
May 13, 2009
by meandean
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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) Continue reading
May 5, 2009
by meandean
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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. Continue reading
May 1, 2009
by meandean
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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 lam̩ crosses? I want your input Рso leave a comment. Continue reading