tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281624302011-04-21T17:06:51.965-04:00Miraclenoreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28162430.post-1166200490303599232006-12-15T11:20:00.000-05:002006-12-15T11:34:50.323-05:00

Every now and again I decide to procrastinate from work and surf the web. Ok it happens more than it should, but I bought a patch to control the habit. Well at least you can take advantage of my procrastination.PhotobucketThis is one of many websites which seek to share photos from one individual to another. There are other "Photosharing Networks" such as flickr and Stock.xchng, but photobucket

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No matter where you turn or run, everyone is putting them up. You are finally placed into a position of flee or join in what everybody is doing... What do you do? If you do decide to join our darkside and actually make a website for your church, then the first obstacle is getting a host. In our last installment of Church on a Budget, we introduced and disected the world of Blogger: The King of

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 In our last reading we learned that blogs are for those preachers who never shut up and we also know that Myspace is best for that social butterfly who wont stop bugging you, but what good are forums? On eministrynotes.com I have been discussing the different use of social networking sites, and one person was pondering about the future of forums and spirituality. In my personal opinion,

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So you want to know the quickest way to make your church or youth group website sticky to members? The simplest and most effective way of doing this is a good links section with relevant & reliable content. If you consistently and routinely browse over different ministry & nonprofit's pages & add them to the website, then your members will see the site as a reliable source platform onto the web.

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 It has been my experience that many churches cannot and do not have the funds for a full fledged out website with their own hosting and domain name. Sure the prices have gone down to a manageable $100 a year for a good hosting company like Ipowerweb, but even still that is not pocket change for most struggling churches. Luckily, there are many free options out there for a church to get a voice

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Over the past year there has been one site that has gotten more buzz and more critique beyond every other. Myspace is continually regarded as a place for a haven for Sexual predators and premiscuous teenagers, but sadly I believe it has been labelled way to badly. It is true there is alot of bad on myspace but it is only a reflection of our corrupted and imperfect world. For those of us who still

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"I don't know why we even have a website, its not like anyone ever goes on it." One of the saddest states of affairs in today's church reality is that it really is hard to justify spending $100 or more on a website that seems to produce very little benefit. With many churches having a hard time trying to maintain the salaries of the current church staff, building maintenance and upkeep, and

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It has been a long and grueling month but somehow you have gotten pulled into the blog fad. Was it the peer pressure as you watched all your friends jump off the reality cliff or were you actually fooled by my "ideas for your website post“ into believing a blog might be a good resource? Whichever the reason, you have decided to make that jump into “well everyone else is doing it”. The truth is

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We all know that pastors like to give their opinions, but at least it is one of the few careers that people actually care to listen. One of the most important parts when most people are “interviewing” churches is the personality, beliefs and openness of the pastor. He or she is the image shown on display. To prove my point, all someone has to do is look at any local congregation and see how

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This is my first review for a service/product that churches can use for their website. I have put ease of use, price, and design freedom as this week’s grading scale and will probably do so for most CMS (Content Management Systems). This week I am reviewing the Mambo CMS, because I have just recently played with it on a website that I work on. What is Mambo, you may ask? In simple and

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Do you have a question about your Church’s website, structure, purpose, relations that you would like to hear my opinion? Does it seem like I am beating around the bush and not getting specific to your situation? I would love to change that and discuss concrete examples and situations. In order to make more practical work I am freely giving out an email address where you can personally ask me

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Behind a closed door there is an intense meeting that is becoming wearisome for many of the organization’s leaders. They are arguing about a simple issue of a website and how they can best use it for their polarized potential visitors. One group will view the site as a brochure to see if they would like to attend and the other group will view the site as current member’s needing resources, and

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The year is 2006 but if we stepped into the church community, we would be transported back in time to 1986 reading comic books about 2006. In reading the futuristic comic books, we dreamed about the cool gadgets and technologies in the pages. In the year 2006, the future will be limitless with possibilities and progress. We all dreamed about those coming days where we could have body enhancements

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In the deep towns of Florida there is a small church whose hearts are thrown in the mud and then hung up for the rest of the Christian world to have a good laugh. Before, in years past, this family-centered and loving church was tripling their legal fire-code limit. Every Sunday they had potlucks, and monthly they had baptisms down by the lake. These days of great community continued until the

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This is only a test

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