George Orwell: 12 blogging tips
Thursday, August 9th, 2007 Posted in How-To, Theology | 1 Comment »According to George Orwell, a scrupulous blogger, in every sentence they write, should ask if their words and images attain their site's conversion goals. If not, then perhaps there are some instances of Spurgeon-esque church-speak and/or kitschy imagery and cliches ...
5 lessons pastors can take from Tammy Faye Bakker Messner’s passing
Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Fast Five, Theology | 5 Comments »Televangelist Tammy Faye Messner died last night, just about the same time many pastoral sermons met a similar fate. Only whereas the former perished as a result of inoperable lung cancer, the latter expired due to a case of ...
Jakob Nielsen: written articles v. blog postings
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Reading Room, Theology | No Comments »Usability expert Jakob Nielsen betrays his 1997 post entitled 'how people read the web' with his most recent article entitled 'Write Articles, Not Blog Postings.' That is, instead offering scannable content to a community of aggregators, the good Doctor suggests ...
Hazards of HTML Haste
Monday, July 9th, 2007 Posted in Theology | No Comments »Allow me to relate how a near-death experience reminded me the importance of moving fast enough to get the job done, but not so fast that I break all the rules - killing cute little 7 year old children in ...
What to do when your homepage becomes an splash page
Thursday, July 5th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Theology | 8 Comments »What does it profit your church or charity's website to have the most beautiful web pages ever designed if it doesn't convince people to visit your church, engage in your ministries, or at least inquire for more information? Today I ...
How to test your site across multiple browsers
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | 7 Comments »Before you write a single line of HTML, before you render curved menu tabs using CSS, before you Flashinate your users with slideshows ... remember one thing: unless you're designing a church website for a bunch of over-clocked, Mac-inspired, graphic ...
iPhone & your church web site, iPhone & usability, iPhone article round-up
Friday, June 29th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 5 Comments »Later today, alot of folks will be shelling out almost $600 to adopt Apple's latest offering, the iPhone. A device that consolidates three popular mobile applications onto a single platform - delivered via a radically re-factored ...
Maximize your summer missions impact with disruptive technologies
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 1 Comment »Right about now, a number of you are creating checklists of what to bring on your summer missions trip. Here are a few technical items you might want consider, to help keep your family and/or sponsors up-to-date via your church's ...
Note to Dr. Nielsen - quality is everyone’s job
Monday, June 25th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | No Comments »Today's Alertbox entitled 'Should Designers and Developers Do Usability?' Jakob Nielsen asserts "Having a specialized usability person is best, but smaller design teams can still benefit when designers do their own user testing and other usability work." How do I disagree ...
A comparitive cornucopia of online office ’sweets’
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Reading Room, Theology | 5 Comments »Microsoft Office is dead - at least that is the conclusion I read between the lines of a "Read/WriteWeb article" by Richard MacManus. Taking the opportunity of today's public beta release of Zoho's Meeting, MacManus compares and considers ...
10 blogging mistakes pastors & laypersons should avoid
Thursday, June 14th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | 3 Comments »Scenario - church uber geek gets the pastor all hooked-up with Wordpress with Google Analytics. No long afterwards, pastor begins to pontificate like Spurgeon (or at least Phil Johnson). After a month, both geek-boy and the pastor are shocked to ...
Conversion Goals part ‘Duex’ - 1st impressions count!
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Reading Room, Theology | 2 Comments »“It is vitally important that the first contact someone has with our church is a positive one. Andy Stanley says it this way, “Your sermon starts in the parking lot.” As more and more people begin their search for a ...
