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August 1, 2011
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October 10, 2008
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5 Things Churches and Charities can learn from Google
So how did Google become a verb? Glad you asked … it did so by building an organization around intelligent people who understood how to grow the corporate needs around what the customer wanted. Put in more “Christian” terms, it’s about satisfying one’s self by first serving others.
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September 30, 2008
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How to use Google Moderator to crowdsource your questions (almost)
Crowdsourcing describes the act of outsourcing a task to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. Moderator is a new tool from Google that facilitates this practice by posing your question to the … Continue reading
September 2, 2008
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Google Chrome – browser, web operating system, or web desktop?
Looks like Google Chrome was launched a bit earlier than desired yesterday. The official Google Blog following-up “iterate often” with a link to their online comic book explaining their new browser works. And while some may only see “Yet Another Browser” – those of us looking under the hood are beginning to ask ourselves, it this really just a browser – or is this actually Google creating a web desktop and/or web OS that will finally put the nail in the Microsoft Office coffin? Continue reading
August 1, 2008
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Dumping Outlook for gMail – how and why
Ever contemplate saying bye-bye to Outlook forever? How about your church volunteers and staff – are they missing important messages because they can’t afford, nor figure out how to synchronize, the latest version on their home machines? Is the portability and price of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions like gMail sound almost too goo to be true? Continue reading
April 21, 2008
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Vista vs. Ubuntu and the value proposition of a work in progress
Steve Ballmer says Vista is a work in progress. With that in mind, and if my office, contact management, presentation, web administration, and other applications are all web-based, then what is the value proposition of sticking it out with Microsoft’s expensive work in progress, versus a more cost effective work in progress such as Ubuntu? Continue reading
February 27, 2008
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5 Comments on Google, Tammy Faye, WIFI Security, Spiritual Abuse and Flashination
Here are 5 comments from visitors that I think are worth restating in a post as they each address larger issues facing many of us who design, develop, deploy and maintain church and/or charity websites. The format will be a brief on what the original article stated, and then snippets of what the commenter contributed; so in no particular order: Continue reading
January 17, 2008
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YourMap – an easier way to integrate Google Maps into your church website
Here is a free and easy to use online form that automates the 10 steps in embedding a google map withing your church website into 2 and a half easy-peazy steps. Continue reading