5 Reasons You Need to Add digital.leadnet.org to Your Aggregator - NOW!
Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Reading Room | No Comments »Have you heard the one about the new mob-blog for church leaders and webmasters? No, it's no joke - rather digital.leadnet.org is an extension of the Leadership Network dedicated to 'using technology to multiply the church's impact.' And if that description ...
5 love notes from the mailbag
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 Posted in Fast Five, Reading Room | 5 Comments »I'm usually very responsive to comments and emails - as such interaction often results in long-term, online friendships with other developers. That said, sometimes I get 'love notes' that either request assistance when I'm mega-busy, or whose purpose is to ...
Don’t confuse a church website with … um … marital bliss
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 5 Comments »"Don’t confuse web design with football either. Or sex. Or anything else." says Vincent Flanders in his article on 'Don’t Confuse Web Design With Dining.' I'll add to that: don't confuse your church website with 'real ...
Why Christians Should Have Nothing To Do With Snowmobiles
Sunday, August 26th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | 4 Comments »7 reasons why snowmobiles are sinful, or a comic-serious example of foolish arguments often used to "prove" that certain things are "worldly" by Norman Street of Diaphero.org - reprinted with written permission: Before I became a Christian I went snowmobiling most ...
Is wireless networking too complex for most churches?
Friday, August 24th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | 2 Comments »Ever wonder why your church hasn't gone WIFI yet? Flummoxed with the fact that you can't get to your Google aps from a committee meeting? Still exchanging documents with the church office via sneaker-net? Perhaps the answer isn't one ...
IconFinder v. IconLet: battle of the icon search engine
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Links, Reading Room | 3 Comments »IconFinder and IconLet are two icon search engines, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this post I provide a simple comparison of both based upon features, ease-of-use, search results and image quality: ...
Submissive Volunteerism versus Spiritual Abuse
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | 5 Comments »Jesus defined the elements of volunteerism in Mark 10:42-43 and Matthew 23:8. There is only one Master, the rest of us are servants of whom the least will be the greatest. Problem is, when it comes to highly ...
Volunteerism and the Robert E. Peary Class of 1977 Reunion
Friday, August 10th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 11 Comments »This weekend the Robert E. Peary High School Class of 1977 will hold its 30th year reunion. Whatever comes of the events, one notable failure will be the lack of a strong and effective online presence similar to ...
Kittens Could Solve Spam?
Saturday, August 4th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | No Comments »Cat bloggers unite! And when you do, don't forget I stepped around you instead of kickin' ya! Why? Well because it seems that them cute fuzzy pictures you've been annoying the rest of us with may be the key ...
more Seven Deadly Sins of Web Design
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 2 Comments »Web design sins are generally the product of inexperience. And as experienced sinners, we'd like to help you avoid these deadly mistakes - some that we've made, and others that we see every day. Pride Here's a Web design ...
How church website design documentation (doesn’t) get done
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 3 Comments »At some point, some savvy steward in a church raises the question "What happens if our all-knowing, über church web design geek leaves? We should have them teach us how it works." At which point even more hilarity ensues as the following ...
Google Analytics: down again, for 2 days, now back up
Monday, July 30th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 3 Comments »Looks like Google Analytics is down again - starting sometime late on Saturday, June 28. And once again once again, no word from the Google Analytics blog (this has changed, see update below) I suspect there's more ...
