Earlier this month Jina Bolton wrote “Writing an Interface Style Guide” at A List Apart, and if you have responsibility for your church Web site you should click over to it, read it and bookmark it.
She wants to spare your beautiful site from disintegrating from a thousand little degradations and so do I. If you […]
I figured the role of the inexpensive long-distance telephone and Internet connectivity has changed what it means to attend a leadership meeting. And if those technologies didn’t then expensive fuel will.
So I Googled meeting telephone members bylaws to see what I would come up with. Little wonder but some of the same phrases kept […]
I’m trying to learn some new software and have been downloading cheatsheats or, as they’re also known, reference cards.
But then I was thinking, “what reference cards would be useful in church life and administration?”
Ideas?
I’m a member of the online Progressive Exchange community, and thought some of my more tech-oriented nonprofit-type readers might like it.
It is a
way to share information among people doing online organizing, advocacy, marketing and fundraising on behalf of the public interest. The goal of the Progressive Exchange is to aid the online efforts of progressive […]
Stanford Law professor and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig had an opinion piece in the New York Times today worth reading, even if copyright issues aren’t your first concern. (”Little Orphan Artworks“)
The problem is that there quite a few mature works that are not old enough to be in the public domain but where the […]
Thanks to J.W. for pointing out a Google Docs new tool that allows forms to be embedded in sites. Comments at the official Google Docs blog suggest not all is well, but it should be useful for adding — at the very least — a straw poll capacity to blogs or an initial level of […]
In my mind’s eye, I imagine a new congregation organizing team having working meeting with a laptop and an Internet connection knocking out all manner of little tasks that once took more time and effort.
A new church in the United States is going to need an Employee Identification Number to hire anyone or open a […]
To be listed as an emerging congregation at UUA.org, “the group should have either a meeting address or working website or both.”
Hmm. One can be almost free of charge, with community support to develop and maintain and is an important communications and resources channel; the other is costly, difficult to acquire and maintain and might […]
It’s no secret I love OpenOffice.org. It’s no secret that there’s a new 2.4 release and a beta for the 3.0 release out. Perhaps less well known is that you can run Windows and use OpenOffice.org. (The 3.0 version, with full release due in September, should benefit long-suffering Mac users.)
The Rev. Angela Mather knew her […]
You’ll recall the Rev. Angela Mather and her cash-strapped parish in Lower Walnut, Maine: a use case for free and open source software and other solutions for congregations.
One of the problems she had was an old Windows computer that was sluggish and temperamental. A friend from seminary thought it might be infected with viruses.
But anti-virus […]
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