Cycling through the Digital Reformation
One of the things that I come across a lot when I talk with churches about Social Media is “how do we do it?’ This article from Jim Naughton’s fine site, Episcopal Cafe, is a great answer to that question. This post is an excerpt from Elizabeth Drescher’s new book “Tweet If You Heart Jesus, […]
What’s been going on?
My posts have been rather sporadic of late. I have had a number of “irons in the fire” that have taken precedence over my blog posts here at ecwwblog.org. It certainly isn’t because I haven’t been busy! First, I have been the point person for the development of a new website for the Diocese of […]
What the Internet is hiding from you
I have been meaning to write something about this since I first heard about this last week after seeing this video by Eli Pariser. As with many things, I got distracted and it got lower on my ever expanding to-do list. Here is another link on this, and thanks to my buddy Kat Lehman […]
Changing Demographics and its Impact on Communication in the Church
The following piece is from my colleague Kat Lehman in the Diocese of Bethlehem. She compiles a great little e-newsletter called IT@Diocesan House. It contains lots of information on IT and technical news as well as links to content useful to us in church IT work. To get on the list to receive this newsletter, […]
Is Facebook Good for the Soul?
I have a link here from The Episcopal Cafe by Ellen Painter Dollar about the dark and light sides of Facebook and social networking—their capacity for both nurture and narcissism. As we talk more and more about social media and how it would work within the church, I think she raises some excellent points as […]
We’re Tweeting at Convention
The 100th annual convention of the Diocese of Olympia will be held on October 29-30, 2010 at the Hilton Seattle Airport Hotel &Conference Center. I will be offering two workshops, Website Design 101: Best Practices in the Digital Age at 10AM and Social Media and the Church at 11AM. More information on these and other […]
Stewardship of Communication
The following is from a sermon I preached on the Stewardship of Communication. In it I talked about how the message you are presenting to your audience needs to be varied and versatile. Good Morning! I am the Internet Strategist for the Diocese of Olympia. My job is to bring 21st century technology to the […]
Goodbye Google Groups
A few months ago we wrote a post on using Google Groups. It would now appear that this feature is going away. This announcement from the Google Groups blog has the pertinent information. The new options seem to be Google Docs and Google Sites. The more pressing info deals with the November 2010 date and […]
Security and Privacy
A lot has been written concerning Internet security and privacy. There is no doubt that there are lots of scams and cons our there on the Internet trying to separate you from your money or your personal information. There are many stories that have been circulating about how people have had their identity stolen or […]
Getting the Message Out
When I do web design workshops, one of the things I tell people is that simply putting up a website will not guarantee success. There is a similar misconception in connecting the faith community electronically. That fallacy is that using one method for digital communications will reach everybody. It won’t. The following is from an […]