ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies, June 9-10, 2003 – Boston, MA

Wouldn’t it be great if I were able to find that dream job,  with a theological organization,  that sent me to an event like this to research the possibilities for the Church? ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies 2003 Conference & Expo is the first business-oriented forum to address the recent emergence of Weblogs into the business world and their rising importance Continue Reading

Baptist, other Christian leaders call for prayer as war begins

From Associated Baptist Press: The morning after U.S. forces initiated bomb and missile attacks on Iraqi targets, Baptists and other Christian leaders in the United States reacted with calls to prayer for a swift end to the war and minimal death and suffering associated with it. Some of the leaders intermingled their appeals for prayer with continued criticism of the Continue Reading

News – Statement on War in Iraq from CBF Coordinator Daniel Vestal

As I connected to cbfonline to look up the location of Smith/Helyws publishers,  (Atlanta area, I discovered),  I saw this news item. Click the above link to read the entire statement from CBF Cordinator: “The overwhelming sense many people have about this war is sadness and confusion. Why is there not the leadership to build consensus among nations to remove Continue Reading

Four Months and Hopefully Not Counting

Yesterday, the first day of spring,  also marked the end of the fourth month of unemployment.  I am hoping to get a Web project that will provide some temporary income,  but also hope that I can use the project to add to my portfolio and develop some functioanlity that I can re-use in the development of Church Webs,  including one Continue Reading

March Madness and Seeking Hope for the Future

As the CBS NCAA basketball coverage comes on TV,  I am in a very different place than in the March Madness days of the last 10 years.  I did not fill out a bracket,  and have watched far less coverage (save for the Kentucky game,  although I was on the computer the whole time, looking at resources for planning and estimating Continue Reading

Web development contributes to Church Mission

If I can make a go of an upcoming Web project,  and renew some efforts to add new features to a Church Web for which I have found little time to go beyond mere “updates”,  there may be a “synergy” that can happen by applying some of the “code” used for one business Web project to enhance the features of Continue Reading

A renewed thesis: Opportunities for the Church in Online Community

I have been thinking about the Doctorate of Ministry (aka DMin) program that started me on this “Church and the Web” vocational journey.  I had completed all the steps save the final project back in the Spring of 1997,  just prior to my moving to Nashville to work fulltime.  I regret having abandoned that program,  but I was consumed in Continue Reading

Engaging the Church Audience

This morning,  as I am doing a search on Google for anything David Siegel might have said, written, done since the publishing of Futurize Your Enterprise,  which was the first book I read which forwarded the idea that was made famous by The Cluetrain Manifesto:  that “markets are conversations”,  and that we “capture customers” as people and not eyeballs or Continue Reading