A comparative cornucopia of online office ’sweets’
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Reading Room, Theology | 7 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 ...
Nielsen Translated: the Web still rocks like it’s 1999!
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | 5 Comments »"10 years ago, I wrote an article on the changes in Web usability from 1994 to 1997. A few of my original findings were no longer valid a mere 3 years after they were issued. But most of the 1994 ...
Microsoft’s Craig Mundie missing the point about mobility
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 1 Comment »I can’t believe what I just heard on BBC TV, Microsoft’s Craig Mundie saying two stupid things: He doesn’t see software moving off the desktop and onto the web space; and He believes computers need to become more helpful.” And for this ...
Coolness does not equal conversion
Monday, June 4th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Theology | 1 Comment »Wow, this commuter plane to JFK is freezing cold - as are attitudes by some church web masters to the needs of their congregation ... and staff. What am I talking about? Usability and utility. I get quite a bit of search ...
Pastors preach: turn on & tune in … to your Blackberry
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 Posted in Theology | 3 Comments »Here are two headlines blogs4God juxtapositioned for me perfectly: Blackberry in Church? Pastor Asks Congregation to Turn Cell Phones ON During Church Service. Wow, I knew an aggregator was useful, but when it begins to first ask, then answer such questions ...
Enough with the Bread and BReakfast markup already!
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 10 Comments »'B and BReakfast markup' is a handy mnemonic mechanism to memorize not to semantically collude your online sermons and studies with misused < b > and < br > taggery. At some point, those of us fielding sermons, Bible studies and ...
Holy Mystery Meat (Navigation)!
Friday, May 25th, 2007 Posted in Proverbs 13:13, Theology | 1 Comment »I have no problem with icons, neither in churches nor on web pages, but of the latter: unless your navigational images are immediately and unquestionably recognizable by anyone and everyone in every context, then what you wind up cooking-up for ...
Photo album or scrolling pix - which leads to higher conversion rates?
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 Posted in Resource Filled, Theology | 5 Comments »Yesterday's post raised this question in a comment "... our church is working on a redesign of our website. One of the features that we would like to have is some sort of scrolling display of pictures. We are looking ...
How Flashinating - Creative Kids Ministry
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 Posted in Proverbs 13:13, Theology | 3 Comments »It's not that I hate Flash, I just hate how often it is misapplied to and/or incorrectly implemented on church, charity and lay ministry websites. Case in point, Aaron Reynods' Creative Kids Ministry. I am more than convinced that Flash is ...
When Jerks Take Over Your Online Community
Saturday, May 19th, 2007 Posted in Theology | No Comments »Angry people looking for fights will inevitably try to poison successful Internet communities. Columnist Cory Doctorow looks at ways to remove the poison without killing the discussion too. - InformationWeek, May 14, 2007 Having been involved in running more than ...
