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More on churches and Twitter

Last month, I wrote a post about churches not responding well on Twitter and it got a nice response.  I followed it up with a…

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Your business needs a website

I can’t believe I’m writing a post like this in 2010, but the sad fact remains that some small businesses don’t have websites. A friend…

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Get more productive by trying new things

I was working with a client recently that declared that they didn’t want to use Google Apps because Gmail is too “weird”.  While I agree…

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More churches are on Twitter, but are they listening?

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, more and more churches are hopping onto Twitter and it’s becoming quite common to see the blue [T] icon in…

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How to install WordPress in less than 10 minutes

I talk about WordPress quite a lot on this blog.  It’s an excellent blogging platform, and it’s a great addition to almost any site —…

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More clicks = better rankings in Google?

I was talking to @jasonbhuffman on Twitter about search engine optimization on his church site, and he told me this: I was informed that on…

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You’ve gotta give before you can get

It’s a idea we’ve all heard before: You’ve gotta give before you can get.  Churches often apply it to tithing, many apply to social networking…

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The basics of Google Analytics

Most of my clients use Google Analytics.  In fact, most people I meet online use Google Analytics.  However, many of them don’t know how to…

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Don’t be like a “University Website”

A few weeks back, the popular comic strip xkcd posted an image titled “University Website“.  It was simply a Venn diagram that showed the difference…

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How much email do you deal with each day?

While I’m a huge fan of the “inbox zero” concept, I always felt I had it easy.  I certainly get a lot of email, but…

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Organize Your Digital Life 10 – Capture everything else in one place

This is the tenth in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series. We’ve been at this for 10 days now, and…

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Organize Your Digital Life 9 – Finance

This is the ninth in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series. You probably already use online banking, online bill pay,…

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Organize Your Digital Life 8 – Take advantage of the small breaks of time

This is the eighth in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series. I’m finding one of the keys to being productive…

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Organize Your Digital Life 7 – Organize your tasks

This is the seventh in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series. Without a doubt, task management is one area of…

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About the new Facebook privacy settings

I’m seeing a lot of confusion about the new Facebook privacy settings and I’m hoping this post will help clear things up. Here’s the short…

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