Welcome to the new eMinsitryNotes.com website. We’re undergoing many changes here but the content will be the same. Also, the old blogspot blog is going to be put to death (humanly I might add).
So bear with us as the new and improved eMinistryNotes.com site comes alive!
I have all the old content merged in […]

Anyone else heading out to LA LA Land tomorrow for the first ever GodBlogCon? Instead of making a double post, hop over to my ministry updates blog and you can read more about it from my perspective.
Leave a comment if you’re going…hope to see you there!
Ironically, my blogging may be slower and fewer while […]

People often ask “how good is online translation?” Well, try this little experiment: take a block of text, translate it, then translate that back to your language and see how far off it is.
For example, I translated Genesis 1:1-3 from English to Spanish and back to English. Results:
Original Text
In the beginning God created the […]

Yahoo has just released Yahoo! Podcasts. They explain on their blog that it’s web-based.
I checked it out and it seems interesting. A clean way to find podcasts using Yahoo! Search. You can listen there online without downloading, subscribe using their own tools, or they provide the RSS feed so you can subscribe […]

Just a follow-up on my post about Future Web Ministry Now…I read this from Steve Knight’s blog:
Jeff Jarvis said it two months ago, referring to the Web. He wrote, “Distribution is not king. Content is not king. Conversation is the kingdom. … The value is no longer in owning content or distribution. The value is […]

I haven’t seen this topic discussed a lot in regards to internet ministry. Yet it’s something that this medium does without even trying. I’m talking about ministering to people not like you — spanning race or culture.
My buddy Scott explores this topic but not in an online context. I’m curious about what […]

Flickr photo originally uploaded by mleak.
Is this what happens when you take marketing to the next level? mleak has several examples.
LOL!
Thanks to Steve for the tip.

Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox today spoke of his Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2005. They are:

Legibility Problems
Non-Standard Links
Flash
Content That’s Not Written for the Web
Bad Search
Browser Incompatibility
Cumbersome Forms
No Contact Information or Other Company Info
Frozen Layouts with Fixed Page Widths
Inadequate Photo Enlargement

Good list to look over and plan through for your site.