May 10, 2007
by meandean
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This scenario sound familiar: your pastor nicely insists you publish his sermons online, but sends you his work in MS Word files that were converted via an old version of WordPerfect for Windows. Yeah, talk about cruft! Fortunately, I think Google may have an affordable and easy answer for all parties involved in this processing paradigm; it’s called Docs & Spreadsheets. Continue reading
May 9, 2007
by meandean
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Back in November of 2005, Google release Analytics, a high popular and free service to help you measure the effectiveness of your church web site. Yesterday, at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen announced a re-factored version of Google Analytics that is more accessible and easier to use; begging the question – why haven’t you plugged this service into your church or charity’s web presence? Continue reading
May 7, 2007
by meandean
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The server move is next week – at which point I’ll discuss some of the gory details of how I move, which may help you move. This will include making sure an older version of WordPress gets to a newer … Continue reading
October 27, 2006
by meandean
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Chewing on your cud on how to re-work your crufty old church website? Well, moo-ving along back into website reviews, I think it’s time to pony up and milk a good example for all its worth. Today’s prime cut being the website brought to you by America’s Dairy Farmers. Yeah, okay so I went a bit over the top with the bovine humor – but my simple point today is about clean, simple marketing sites that present a clean, simple message. Continue reading
April 30, 2006
by meandean
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The WikiPedia describes Software as a Service (SaaS) as: “a model of software delivery where a company adopts specific activities that provide customers access to software alleviating that customer from the maintenance and daily technical operation and support of business … Continue reading
February 20, 2006
by meandean
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Tired of political groups filling up your U.S. snail mail box with letters to your 12 year old daughter? Irritated with self-employed church members spamming you with the latest gift-basket craze? If so, then perhaps your church is lacking a privacy statement to protect contact information you submitted to the church’s sunday school enrollment or pictoral directory. Continue reading
September 7, 2005
by meandean
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The WikiPedia defines Referer spam as “a kind of search engine-targeted spam. The technique involves making repeated web site requests using a fake referer url pointing to a spam-advertised site. Sites that publicize their referer statistics will then also link … Continue reading
June 25, 2005
by meandean
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Want to get hacked? It’s easy, just ‘chmod 777′ everything the next time you install a bbs or photo gallery application. Don’t want to get hacked? Read on and ‘find’ how hackers see, and exploit the unsecured areas of your … Continue reading