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Skype has a critical security flaw. You need to upgrade to the newest version, 1.4.0.84.

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In a new post called “Gutenburg goes to church,” Internet evangelist Scott Reese imagines the early resistance Gutenburg might have encountered when he wanted to use his new printing press to print Bibles. Those of us who develop, refine, and deploy new technology are faced every day with the kinds of issues Gutenburg must have [...]

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In this month’s issue, Christian Computing Magazine compares 40 Church Management Systems in a familiar product evaluation matrix format. Full contact info on all 40 vendors is provided at the end of the article. If you’re looking to buy a CMS or to replace your existing CMS, having a list of 40 vendors with contact [...]

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Resurrection’s Weekly Sermon podcast is now live. Here’s the link to our feed: http://www.cor.org/index.php?id=2485
Read on to learn how we built the podcast and publicized it to the world.
We decided to base our podcast feed on the RSS 2.0 capability that is built in to the ttnews plugin in TYPO3. First, we had to get ttnews [...]

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Brian Bailey of Fellowship Church explains why they require their staff people to be members of the church. I totally understand the rationale behind this, but of course, I have my own unique perspective on it, which I shared in a comment to Brian’s post.

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Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users has a great new post where she illustrates how great product design makes it easy for the user to do the right thing and difficult for them to do the wrong thing.
Simple principle, but difficult to always practice. For example, we know we have some usability issues [...]

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Quoting Richard McManus:
“During the Web 2.0 Conference Yahoo! released a research report on the takeup of RSS. The resulting white paper was entitled RSS - Crossing into the Mainstream, which is a good indication of both the findings of the research and what Yahoo! is attempting to achieve in their use of RSS. The main [...]

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In his October 13 editorial, Steve Rose, the publisher of a local newspaper, gives Resurrection’s Senior Pastor, Adam Hamilton, a very positive review.
Quoting from the piece: “Having seen Hamilton live and after hearing samples of his prior services, I can only say he is one of the most dynamic and inspiring speakers I have ever [...]

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In a recent post, Microsoft’s Robert Scoble helps us understand not only the benefits of blogging but also why this brave new world scares a lot of bosses.
Quoting from the post (referring to the this post, this post, and this post by various Microsoft bloggers) :
“This conversation is probably scaring so many people at other [...]

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Jeffrey McManus posts a summary here of a session at the Web 2.0 conference a couple of weeks ago led by a research analyst who put a half dozen 17- and 18-year-olds on stage to answer questions about how they use the web. Interesting information even though this is a very small sample of [...]

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The Kansas City Star published an article today (subscription required) covering Church of the Resurrection’s announcement that we’ll be adding a second location in western Johnson County next spring. We’re now at the early stages of figuring out how we’ll link the locations with data, systems, phone/voicemail, mail, etc. Stay tuned, it’s going [...]

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Some data points:1. The macro economy is booming again as evidenced by the fact that the Fed is increasingly concerned about inflation. Of course, we have the near-term effects of oil prices and the Gulf hurricanes. But this concern is deeper and wider than that.
2. We created a new position in August at Resurrection for [...]

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Pastor Jeff Mikels blogs this week about the difficulty in trying to install/configure TYPO3 and the Web-Empowered Church (WEC) extensions. Read the comments and you’ll see a response from Mark Stephenson.
In my opinion, TYPO3/WEC isn’t to the point that it’s easily adoptable by small or even medium-sized churches, unless they’re unusally blessed with a gifted [...]

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Mark Stephenson of Web Empowered Church (WEC) posted the following on the WEC forum last night. I thought many of our readers would want to see this …
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Team,
I’d like to share a praise. Just in the first 10 days of October, people from the following countries visited the WEC website:
European Union, Great Britain, Switzerland, [...]

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I mentioned earlier that we’re investigating moving from Windows Media Video to Flash Video for our streaming sermons. Brian Bailey of Fellowship Church gives a lot more details today on how they did this. Thanks Brian!

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How many of us who serve in ministry as a vocation can relate to this article from Business Week?
Here’s a quote: “More than 31 percent of college-educated male workers are regularly logging 50 or more hours a week at work, up from 22 percent in 1980. Forty percent of American adults get less than [...]

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Office 12 will generate PDF files natively. Nice.

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I see that Microsoft’s Scoble is switching his domain name to http://www.robertscoble.com/. Obviously, that’s a better domain name, but isn’t it dangerous to change your address when you’re one of the most popular blogs in the known universe? He’s aware of this risk, of course, and wonders aloud what will happen to his search [...]

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Here’s why (apparently). For a while, I couldn’t get to Google, MSN, or Yahoo. But I could still get to Resurrection and many other less-trafficed sites.

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Scoble points us to Macintosh fan Giles Turnbull talking about how far ahead Microsoft is in opening up to customers via employee blogs.
What would it mean for local churches to open up via blogs in the same way Microsoft has? Would the people we’re seeking to reach and serve appreciate us opening up [...]

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