There was an interesting article in today’s Washington Post about churches and the use of technology, especially in worship. I thought it was a good article and well-balanced, though was certainly breaking no new ground on the issue. I liked it because St. Paul’s Collegiate Church was mentioned and small church plants from […]

I just got back from a Purpose-Driven Conference at Saddleback Church. It was a fantastic conference with tons of take-aways. (Read some of my general thoughts on the conference here). One of the most interesting things at the conference was when Rick Warren spoke about some of the things they are doing with technology and web.

WEB 2.0 is a term that gets thrown around a lot. Bobby Gruenewald has posted a YouTube video that does a nice job of explaining and capturing what Web 2.0 is and why it is pretty revolutionary. You should check it out and let me know what you think. LINK: web 2.0 at LifeChurch.tv : swerve

For those of you who do not know, Second Life is a paid online community taking place in a completely interactive virtual world. What a fascinating place. A completely virtual world with out constraints like death or physics, disease or a personal history. My head is spinning with what this new world represents. What it will mean to sociology? What will it mean to corporate responsibility?

Congratulations! You are the Time magazine “Person of the Year.” The annual honor for 2006 went to each and every one of us, as Time cited the shift from institutions to individuals — citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it. … After some reflection, I actually think the choice is pretty profound and indicative of a fundamental shift in thinking, communicating, processing information…

“THANKS TO THE WEB, WE ARE CONSISTENTLY SEEING A MORE EDUCATED CHURCH GUEST”

In a growing church, one of the tough dynamics is connecting to and following-up with guests. As the “buzz” surrounding a church increases, the stream of first-time guests will also increase.

I am EXTREMELY excited about Coghead. Read the blog here: CogBlog.

For the past few years I have been involved, in small or large part, with Enterprise applications. Either recommendations, design, or the whole deal, they have always been a bit of a bear. Well, more than a bit. They have been HUGE ugly angry bears looking to eviscerate any employee that wastes time considering them.

“Surveys show that born-again Christian teens are just as active in stealing and swapping music as their secular peers who pinch the latest Eminem rap hit or Kelly Clarkson power ballad.” By contrast, “…no other genre has a 2006 sales jump anywhere near the level of the Christian sector.”

Both quotes are taken from this Los Angeles Times article, which is well worth the read for the questions it raises regarding pirates in the church.

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Active Collab is a project management tool that is not shy about saying that it is a free Basecamp from 37Signals. ActiveCollab is Free. It is on your server. I can see how both of those options seem really attractive to small business (churches) or service providers.

CSS is hard. Old, table based layouts were hard too, but today, CSS is hard. Moving to web standards is hard. At the recent AN Event Apart in Seattle I was shocked to see Eric Meyer’s solution to a couple f problems was a quick fix. A QUICK FIX? But this is the Yoda of CSS… the master of all that is Cascading. How can he use a QUICK FIX?