If you are involved in marketing you probably have heard of Kathy Sierra’s blog, Creating Passionate Users. If you’ve followed her site over the last few weeks, you will have seen her cancel a speaking event due to some pretty disgusting and threatening comments as well as posts on other sites.
I’m not going to touch […]

Gerry McGovern does a lot of publishing about internal internet communications (aka: intranet). Today’s thought: New Thinking by Gerry McGovern: The future is collaborative.
I think he nails the concept of being people-based in your approach:
For the intranet to play its part in breaking down the silo mentality and instead encouraging and facilitating cross-departmental collaboration, […]

Xanga blogger John has a great post about some ground rules for an honest discussion about Christianity. It’s well worth the read. My favorite advice for Christians:
If what you are about to say rhymes, please don’t say it. This is not real apologetics. If what you are about to say has […]

EveryStudent.com was built primarily to answer students’ questions about who God is and what it might be like to know Him. God began using the site to draw large numbers of people to faith so Marilyn Adamson, the site’s director, built another site, startingwithGod.com.
This site has all of what a new believer needs to […]

They now say that 9 out 10 emails are spam. You know how many email addresses get picked up by spammers? Leaving an email address sitting on a website.
Smashing Magazine has some good tips for alternatives for posting email addresses online.
These are important because we need to be in the business […]

I’ve talked about some easy autoresponders before. Now I’ve found a service called FeedCycle that will publish serialized RSS feeds.
This is good. I’ve not tried it yet though. A TechCrunch article explains:
If you are telling a multi-part story, or communicating a segmented message over time, you should give FeedCycle a look. Publishers […]

A friend emailed me this report for a tech request she had:
Customer : My phone is not turned on.
Response : Will contact user.
Response : Called user, she’s not available. Left voice mail.
When responding to people, please think. We can do better than what my friend experienced!

I just finished a fun, yet strange, book while flying to and from our recent vacation. I read Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss.
One person saw the title and asked if it was a diet book. Another asked if it was a fitness book. I […]

Tonight I responded to my 200th request by email through various Campus Crusade websites running Arc Assist at their response mechanism.
Here was a portion of the email I received:
Domain: godsolovestheworld.com
Name: **********
Residence: Turkey
Gender: Male
Tell us about your spiritual journey: I just prayed to receive Christ as my Savior for the first time
It’s simply amazing to […]

A friend and co-worker has a unique approach to ministry. He questions everything!
When my wife and I first started with Campus Crusade, we ministered to the students of George Mason University. Randy had been ministering there for a few years already so we spent some time together. I actually remember him telling […]