This made me go “Wow.”
Actually, a little more than that.
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This made me go “Wow.”
Actually, a little more than that.
It’s that time again…! Sunday’s a good day to take it easy.
I’ve decided that on Sundays I’m not going to do any blogging except for a very simple post series called “The Sunday Special” where you get to ask me anything.
You can ask about me about web technology, WordPress, blogging, what I ate for breakfast… whatever.
I can’t promise that I’ll answer all of your questions, but feel free to answer each other’s questions as well.
I’ll try to answer all the questions throughout the coming week.
Simple enough, right? Go.
[Image from gshok]
This happens a lot.
Luckily, the place where I work now isn’t a breeding ground for queens of drama, but I’ve been in some places where this is extremely typical. Perhaps you’ve got some war stories?
Working with those that slow us down is part of ministry. In fact, especially if you’re the resident “geek” and/or “technologist” part of your day-to-day is managing these types of relationships.
Keep cool, calm, and collected. Part of our job as the so-called technologically-elite is to actually communicate effectively with those that have lives outside the computer screen (and thank God, right?).
See, we all play various roles and have various functions that are necessary for our organizations and ministries to be successful. I have to remind myself that without “them” I’d really have no job in the first place.
And the fact that I can be just as much of a drama queen as they, just in reverse, as I whine and moan that the collective ignorance of my work environment makes me nauseated (or at least the previous ones in which I worked).
Spread the wealth of knowledge with an open mind and let’s have grace be the first thing we give besides great technical advice.
At first glance I was honestly going to write this flash-based website off after a hardy ROFLCOPTER but I actually found it quite intriguing.
(Another reason not to judge a website by it’s cover… or initial impression… load time… aesthetic… or general strangeness.)
ReallyWooly.com is an interactive site where parents and kids can learn more about Jesus and the Christian faith via games, videos, live interactive events, and more. You first have to sign up as a “parent” to get access.
Although, I’m not completely sold on the idea and I question whether to amount of time and energy invested in developing this type of application is reasonable, the heart-motivation is where it should be.
I imagine that we’ll continue to see even more sites like this in the near future as people (and businesses) realize that we are spending a lot of time online, and especially the next generation.
I, for one, won’t be signing up my daughter for any of these services any time soon because I simply don’t want her crawling the web that much in the first place.
What are your thoughts? Watch this vid for more info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBLZhHSRmKo
On a personal sidenote, that Shepherd game is freaking difficult! It took me 4 tries to complete it and was super frustrating!
Stupid sheep…
[HT: Pastor Clark for the link]
The following are great videos capturing some basic thoughts and ideas behind social media marketing, usage, etc. Even I learned a thing or two!
Definitely watch the Non Profit video!
by Eric Dye
This is a Guest Post by Brian Barela.
We faced a choice: create a below average offline experience or refine our online experience using the critical mass from our normal meeting.
My ministry launched a virtual meeting this year – Chico CRU Live – and although we saw good participation traffic started to fade.
Our meeting happened to fall on Veteran’s day which meant our students did not have school and our ministry did not have access to our meeting room.
This is what we did:
These key factors influenced our actions:
The results (these metrics are from that day alone):
The key metrics for us were % of New Visits, Average Time on Site, and Referring Sites
I have two questions for you as we continue to refine our virtual meeting:
So, what are your thoughts?