Fellowship Follow-up

When you go to buy something on eBay, you look at the seller’s reputation, their “Feedback Profile.” It’s that magic number that says this person is okay to buy from. What is interesting to me is that a rating of 97% is great, but you may not buy from the person if you see two...

Church news blog? Why would you want one?

For most of this week, I have been working on a news blog for our church. This has been a fun process, and it looks like it will be a tremendous success for our church. I still have a lot of work to do, namely making it look like the rest of the site, or making a new template for both at the same time, or...

Blogs make me feel warm and fuzzy inside

I love blogs. I love reading them; I love commenting on them; and, mostly, I love the connection that they bring. For instance, I am associated with a group of Church IT bloggers, called the Church IT Roundtable. Even though I have never met most of these guys and never attended an in-person roundtable,...

RSS and me, Why everyone needs a reader

Props to Kevin McCord for his post on why you should subscribe to him: Let me give you my bottom line: You are too busy to visit my website. You don’t want to be frustrated when I don’t have anything new posted. Subscribing will solve both of those problems. I like that, a plain and simple...

So, you think you can blog?

Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be teaching our staff how to subscribe to RSS feeds, use Google Reader, and start their own blogs. I love this video from the fine folks at CommonCraft.com about what blogs are and why everyone should have one. I really believe that each minister in every church...