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This was a question posed to me by Brian the Former Superstar Intern who is discussing this topic in one of his college classes. (The former in his title has nothing to do with his performance. He’s still a superstar. He’s just not in our office this semester.) Anyway...here’s the short response I sent him.

That’s an interesting question. My gut reaction is to say every church should have a website. If they can’t commit to keeping one up to date, then they should at least have a well designed...

I’ve been really intrigued by the a couple of posts from Tim Stevens on his blog Leading Smart. He’s been going through various aspects of the church and saying how things have changed in the last decade. For example he wrote this about church buildings:

2000: Church buildings were mostly viewed as status symbols. Respect for a pastor was high if he or she had a new building. An emphasis on style and design was beginning to creep back into the church construction industry. Everyone came to one...

The latest issue of Collide Magazine just made its way to my desk and boy do I really like the cover story. “How to Fail @ Social Media” takes a look at the common missteps people take when using tools like Twitter and Facebook. While there are 11 steps, I’ll share four of my favorites with you so I’m not giving the whole article away.

• “Step Three: Try to grab an audience before you add value or content.”

The basic idea here is people get so excited about a project they’re launching, they...

Creating website wireframes is the step we skip far too often when designing a new website. It’s easy to get excited about a flashy new look, but it can be hard to have tweetable moments when thinking about a bunch of empty black and white boxes on a sheet of paper.

But wireframing may be the most important step any organization can take when putting together a new website. It helps you take your sitemap, a list of features and categories, and give it some shape. To the left is a picture of a...

You may have seen the City of Los Angeles, California just decided to switch all of it’s 30,000 employees email from their current system to Google. It will cost the city $7.2 million to migrate over to Google Apps which includes a form of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Talk. But guess what. If you’re a non-profit organization, you can make the switch for free. (Well, technically it’s free if you’re 3,000 people or less and highly discounted if your organization has more than...