Named GodBlogCon, it’s been settled that it’ll be hosted at Biola University in California on Oct 13-15.

Many churches (and other groups such as Bible colleges) are planning to mark the first worldwide INTERNET EVANGELISM DAY on 24 April. By using a downloadable PowerPoint presentation, video clips, dramas and other resources, they are creating a custom ‘do-it-yourself’ non-technical focus slot, to share with their members the enormous potential of the Web for […]

Got this in an email the other day:
Read something on branding recently. Here’s the bullet points.

Brand consistency is overrated. Doesn’t have to look the same, but has to feel the same. An element of newness and surprise is important for any brand.
Brands should have some mystery. Customers should never understand the whole picture of a […]

Earlier this week I wrote about Customer Service in the Blogsphere. Really quite a cool story. But it prompted a comment about how to actually do the monitoring.
Then I realized that was something I wanted to write about but haven’t yet! So here goes…
First is getting alerts via email. The second […]

I’m working on a planning a conference with a few other people around the world. It’s been interesting trying to figure out the best collaboration tools. For a while, we tried a blog. Although it worked okay, it wasn’t great. It kept the topics threaded by using comments, but it was […]

Can Podcasting be effective for ministry? I think it might. I don’t fully understand it, but I basicly get it. It’s an RSS feed of audio files instead of XML text.
Still confused? Try this: Understanding the Podcasting Revolution.
Anyone know of any churches or minsitries using podcasting? I could see a […]

I’m being reminded by the folks at MarketingProfs.com that a target audience isn’t just a demographic group of people. The folks at iPod are teaching us: An Old Lesson on Target Audience… the iPod Way.
The idea is that it’s not just about a demographic (teens, men, women) you should target.
You should also factor into […]

This is really cool.
I’ve been noticing that my Firefox Browser has been slowing down…WAY down. It was so slow when a new window opened that I switched to IE for a while yesterday to get work done. It was bad.
Today, a developer from Mozilla posted a comment on that post telling me that […]

Dilbert Comic Strip Archive - Dilbert.com - Feb 19, 2005

Brian Bailey of the Leave It Behind blog has had a couple of interesting posts about portal websites as it pertains to ministry. Some excerpts:
Most of us remember the portal frenzy in 2000 and 2001, as the internet bubble peaked…site after site attempted to capture user’s attention by becoming a destination….I remember it well […]