There’s a new blog on the block about ministry and technology. This one is about Blog Ministry. I’m going to keep a close eye on this one. Sounds really good. I’m interested in this because I’m very curious about the answer to the question: Can a blog be used for ministry?
I […]

Tomorrow I’m heading out to the Internet Evangelism Coalition Annual Meeting in Chicago. Perhaps I’ll be able to post some while there on what’s going on there.

Interesting report coming from The Barna Group today called Technology Use Is Growing Rapidly in Churches. One conclusion:
Among the churches most likely to have a website today are those located in the western states (62%), large churches (84%), and churches whose congregation is primarily white (62%).
I’m encouraged that the church is using technology to […]

When effectiveness happens in ministry, is it because we got skillz or is it because God is doing something divine?
Well, here’s a post that takes this on: Church of the Customer: God is a helluva marketer. In it, they talk about the success of Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life. Warren claims the […]

I found this post that lists 14 Instant Messaging Etiquette Tips for Bloggers quite interesting. To be honest, I don’t publish my email, skype, or IM accounts because I don’t want random people contacting me. But then again, couldn’t that be an outlet for ministry?
Well, this is more about contacting others. I […]

The ChurchNerd is asking today how would you define the term Web Ministry? He says it’s:
A Web Ministry is the use of a church’s gifts and talents, time and energy, in the service of making Disciples of Christ on the World Wide Web. This should not be limited to just a web site but […]

I feel dense. I’ve read a lot of definitions of what Web 2.0 is. The most recent “simple” explanation I read came from ZDNet.com. But I still don’t get it.
Can someone explain it in simple, dumb language? Better yet, give me an example of how it’s different. I just don’t […]

Sorry folks, but for a while if you leave a comment, you’ll have to jump through one little hoop now. You must type in a code provided by blogger to leave the comment. I’m going to see if this will slow down the spammers. Ugh.

You think Lego is having trouble with their brand name? You can find this if you go to this page…but look fast for you only get 10 seconds. Guess I was wrong as a kid. I never knew I was offending Lego so much by playing with Legos so much!
I know becuase […]

Jakob Nielsen has a very interesting report today called The Slow Tail: Time Lag Between Visiting and Buying (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).
His summary of the report tells a lot:
Users often convert to buyers long after their initial visit to a website. A full 5% of orders occur more than four weeks after users click on search […]