Today I had an IM exchange with a friend whose son is in college. We were talking about his major and his interests. When the conversation ended I said, “I should blog this!” So here it is …
Clif says:Your son knows a lot about computers. After an ugly couple of years the IT labor market [...]
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Dave Winer: “I don’t like Christmas, maybe that has something to do with not particularly liking Christians. Let me explain. It’s not the people I don’t like, it’s the Christianity of the people. “
Something for all of us to chew on during our Christmas break.
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Dave Ferguson: “policy is what happens when we can’t get people to do what we want them to do or when people are not championing a clear cause. Policy occurs when the ethos of a church culture is weak and the cause is not compelling.”
Wow. Maybe there’s a good reason I don’t [...]
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Did I mention how cranky I am with Road Runner right now? It gets worse.
Our master e-mail list has around 9,000 subscribers. All of a sudden, the number of subscribers dropped significantly yesterday. Upon investigation, 1,400 of our 1,700 Road Runner subscribers are bounced.
Road Runner tech support is clueless – we might as well be [...]
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Here are the most popular searches this year on Google. (”Zeitgeist” means “spirit of the times”.)
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While you’re on Tony Dye’s blog, also check out his post on Choices for the CMS we want and the comments that follow. This post sparked a lengthy conversation between myself and Brian Slezak, my fellow Appian Way blogger who works with me in the IT Department at Resurrection. Particularly, we discussed the comment by [...]
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A few weeks ago Tony Dye posted the PowerPoint he used in a “lunch & learn” session on syndication and blogging. Thanks Tony for this great resource. I know I need to offer similar training to our staff at Resurrection.
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Richard McManus gives us his take on the top 10 Web 2.0 moments of 2005.
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Effective Web Ministry Notes comments on an article in the Orlando Sentinel regarding how college coaches are sending text messages to recruits’ phones as a tool in their recruiting efforts. We need to figure out how to use texting in our student ministry strategy.
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One of our senior ministry leaders is replying to e-mails from a hundred or so people who e-mailed her. Many of these people are on Road Runner e-mail addresses. (Road Runner is the Internet service from Time Warner Cable.) She started getting bounce-backs from Road Runner that look like this:
The e-mail system was unable to [...]
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Seems as if this whole “no church on Christmas” thing is generating a lot of discussion. Even national popular press stories are appearing, such as this on one MSNBC.
Chuck Russell, my fellow Appian Way blogger, linked one of his seminary professors, Ben Witherington, who really blasted churches for closing. Ben’s post drew a lot of [...]
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Kevin D. Hendricks of Church Marketing Sucks points us to a new report on the results of a survey on church marketing of over 500 church leaders across the country. This short report is worth a read.
Kevin says, “It’s not Barna material by any means, but it is some interesting stuff.”
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Tony Dye of Perimeter Church just completed a great series of blog posts about what a good Church Management System (CMS) should do and how it should work. This is great reading for any of you who are considering installing a CMS or changing your existing CMS.
I wonder if any of the CMS [...]
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Six months ago the closest thing to retail at Church of the Resurrection was selling CDs and videos of sermons. Today we have a bookstore (that sells our own CDs, videos, etc. as well as other typical Christian bookstore stuff), a ticketing system for selling reserved seat tickets to events in our main sanctuary, [...]
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