Is Church marketing dead? Nope, just stuck on stupid!
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Bad Design Posters, Theology | No Comments »There's no getting around it, despite the efforts of many to teach, rebuke, correct & train in righteous web design, there still exists a great cloud of witlessness when it comes to the Church's presence online. A fact painfully corroborated ...
5 Things Eight Belles and Church Webmasters have in common
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Fast Five, Theology | No Comments »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: Both endure ...
Signs and blunders: legibility and the marquee on the church front lawn
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Theology | 1 Comment »Like Mark Pilgrim, I too live in Apex, NC; "the peak of good living." I know this because that message is proudly and conspicuously displayed on both water towers. A lesson in good old fashioned marketing if ever there ...
XML v. JSON and the Pizza Delivery Model
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 Posted in Theology | No Comments »Software services - such as on demand sermons - is like pizza delivery, it's all about WHAT the customer receives and less about HOW the product was made and conveyed. I think that's a point lost on many of the ...
10 Things an Effective Church Website can do for You
Monday, October 8th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Theology | 3 Comments »As I peruse the great cloud of witlessness that is the Body online, I find one of the primary problems afflicting many sites is vision. That is I often find those responsible for delivering the goods don't really ...
A comparison of 6 common website navigation methods
Monday, October 1st, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | No Comments »Below is my take on a case study comparing 6 common navigational methods by the Usability Professionals Association including among them Rollover, Flash, and Flyout menus I often see ...
Too cool for Old School - Sonrise Baptist Church Newnan, GA
Friday, August 31st, 2007 Posted in Fast Five, Theology | 4 Comments »I don't care how cool your seeker-centric, Flash-based church website is, if an individual can't find it with a typical search engine query, then all that energy in actionscript and video production is lost. Take for example a new resident ...
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 ...
Splashing about Ocean State Baptist Church, RI
Monday, August 20th, 2007 Posted in Theology | 4 Comments »Imagine visiting a new church where entry to the chapel is blocked by a welcoming committee who insists they first 'inspire' you with a 10 minute interpretive dance based on their church name and slogan? How fast ...
Signs & blunders: Baptist Press misses the mark[eting]
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 4 Comments »Woody Murray's recent article in the Baptist Press entitled 'Church signs are key to outreach' once again exemplifies the failure of the Church to understand the impact of individual and household web usage on various community outreach and ...
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 ...
