August 8, 2007
by meandean
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From a nursery volunteer to mega-church minister, one thing is for sure: charitable work is never done. And while no software will replace the human factor, those burdened with feet of clay can trip less often if equipped with a … Continue reading
August 6, 2007
by meandean
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Your nuts if your church is still spending money on security, anti-spam, word processing and other typical office-like applications. Worse, you’re a pirate if you’re not paying for them – unless of course you’re taking advantage of Google Pack, a set of free applications that give you much if not all of the computing power you need to help operate an effective ministry in the 21st century. Continue reading
July 19, 2007
by meandean
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No, you’re not seeing double and I’m not drunk – well sorta drunk – that is drunk on cheat sheets. Or should I say the semi-definitive list of technical cheat sheets … Continue reading
July 18, 2007
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Render lists of CSS-driven menu options as God intended, using the HTML list element with, List-o-matic a online tool that helps you create CSS-styled navigation blocks based on unordered lists items. Continue reading
July 13, 2007
by meandean
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Empower your pastors and lay ministers with the ability to leverage their cell phones, home computers and/or office email to track follow-ups with visitors, schedule visits with members in the hospital, track prayer requests and other contact-centric information from anywhere about town, or even around the globe. Such pipe-dream functionality is now an every-day reality as several software as a service (SaaS) are now offering affordable web-based customer relationship management (CRM) system. Continue reading
July 11, 2007
by meandean
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On the page entitled ‘How to display the Verse of the Day on your Web site,’ the good folks at the BibleGateway describe how to leverage the NuSOAP toolkit to consume the verse of the day SOAP-based web service using … Continue reading
July 6, 2007
by meandean
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One of the huge upsides of RSS feeds are their ability to get your message out to a broader audience immediately. One of the huge downsides of feed syndication is that they are often consumed by aggregators, applications that often go undetected by most Javascript-based tracking applications. Fortunately, Google has once again come to the rescue – this time with its acquisition of FeedBurner, making the once pay-for-Pro feed tracking services free to you and me.
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June 26, 2007
by meandean
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Mind mapping is defined is a diagramming process which includes a central key idea, task or words, radially surrounded by child or peer ideas, tasks or words. In the end, you wind up with a octopus-like picture of a mind-dump. Scary huh? Let’s draw one around the idea of podcasting the pastor’s sermons. Continue reading