One of my favorite devotions from the late Bill Bright. I like it becuase it reminds us that as we crunch numbers and stats on your sites, remember each number represents a person whom you have had touched in some way:
An Identity Crisis?
He calls his own sheep by name (John 10:3, NLT).
Dear friends:
Marvin Rosenthal, writing […]

I was cleaning out some old emails tonight and ran across this one from a year or so ago. Sorry I lost the link to it…
MORE THAN THE SHIRT YOU WEARby Wayne Pederson
In his book “Fearless Faith”, John Fischer tells of a friend who regularly wore message T-shirts in hopes that someone would ask […]

What do you do if your brand is not what you want it? Rebrand it of course! But how?
The Canadian province of Manitoba launched a website to get your input on how to rebrand Manitoba.

Every year (or it used to be) there was an all-star football game called the Blue-Gray Game. It was for college seniors to get together and play a game with NFL scouts watching.
This year’s game has been cancelled because they couldn’t find a corporate sponsor.
Kevin at Fanblogs has a suggestion that is really interesting […]

I recently posted about what is annoying to atheists. Now I have some data on what annoys everyone!
Jackob Nielsen has reported on the Most Hated Advertising Techniques and I can’t say I disagree with any of it. Some highlights:
Good Advertising Will

indicate what will happen if people click on them
relate to what people are […]

Frank over at the Strategic Digital Outreach blog is asking a similar question I asked last week:
Anyone know of any good examples of digital outreach to kids?
Why? Because…
Nielsen Net Ratings reports that kids aged 2-11 years old are leading the growth of Web pages viewed at home. Pageviews made by this group in the […]

Any thoughts on how much pop culture (or at least game shows) have on popular searches online? Yahoo! tells us how the Ken Jennings loss on Jeopardy the other night gave some huge spikes on certain search terms. People flocked to the internet to read more about all sorts of stuff regarding the […]

Called “Internet Evangelism for the 21st Century”, the conference will include such notable speakers as Rev. David Bruce of the million hit per day site, www.HollywoodJesus.com , Dr Allan Beeber of Campus Crusade for Christ and Rev. Chris Forbes who will discuss re-skinned versions of the www.MostImportantThing.com evangelism site. Other workshops are planned. Liberty University […]

Over at the Search Engine Roundtable, they’ve been playing around with a small experiment in search results. They took the not-so-competitive search term “big blue pineapple chair” to see how the different search engines would treat their page. Here are some results: Search Results for My Competitive Keyword

People have been talking about the Google PageRank for a while. A lot of people I’ve read from put a lot of importance on what their Google PR is (found by using the Google toolbar in your browser). I’ve kept saying and reading from others that Google PR isn’t that accurate and really […]