Successfully marketing your charity in the digital domain is more than adding a “Like Button” to your blog. Continue reading
June 17, 2011
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November 24, 2010
by meandean
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What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parable.
What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parable: I think I encountered this particular ‘brand’ of Church marketing when I first moved down to the Raleigh burbs of Apex. It does inspire me to want to ‘reel-off’ a parody … Continue reading
April 22, 2010
by meandean
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The Facebook Like Button Plugin for WordPress
Facebook rocked the internet yesterday with 5 new plugins, one of which is an API for the Facebook Like Button. After reading about it and playing a bit with the Facebook’s Like Button generator, I decided what’s needed is a WordPress plugin that allows folks to easily configure the look-and-feel of the Facebook Like Button, and then automatically add it the beginning and/or the end of their posts. Continue reading
May 13, 2009
by meandean
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Did Twitter just jump the credibility shark with #twitterlied?
Here’s another lesson we can take from Twitters poor handling of their @ replies notification setting problem: don’t tell users that they’re the problem when it is your system that’s sick (e.g.#FixReplies + #TwitterFail vs. #TwitterLied) Continue reading
May 13, 2009
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While Twitter fiddled, their users burned – lessons learned
Twitter, in fiddling around with their @ replies notification setting, created a firestorm of outrage among the known twitterverse manifesting itself into to hash mark campaigns entitled ‘#fixreplies’ and ‘#twitterfail’ respectively. Continue reading
May 5, 2009
by meandean
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5 Things that heal your church website
What actually heals a church website? Here are 5 remedies I have to offer based on some of the many excellent comments in response to last Friday’s open comment post on the same topic. Continue reading
December 10, 2008
by meandean
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The real reason Twitter beat the snot out of Pownce
Twitter gives our mundane lives meaning, that’s why it beat the snot out of a more ‘feature-rich’ Pownce. To prove my point, let’s rewind about a year and a half ago to Tamar Weinberg’s comparison entitled ‘Twitter vs. Pownce: Who … Continue reading
May 8, 2008
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Is Church marketing dead? Nope, just stuck on stupid!
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 by the persistent body of ‘kitsch‘ out there that distracts, annoys and otherwise drives-away people seeking and/or serving the Lord. Continue reading