Facebook Settings…again

Well it appears that Facebook has changed some of its components once again which leads us to go back an re-evaluate how we want things seen and shared. I am still trying to wade my way through all of this, but I have found 2 postings that I would like to share on this. One [...]

September 29th, 2011 | Category: Connecting Community, Social Media | Leave a comment

Annoyance and a Friendly Warning

Just because I’m the IT guy doesn’t necessarily mean that I am immune from the mayhem of the outside world (aka the Internet).

I went to my blog late yesterday only to find out it had been hacked earlier in the day. Not only that, but the same hacker did in two of our church [...]

July 12th, 2011 | Category: Connecting Community, Domain Name | Leave a comment

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, [...]

June 20th, 2011 | Category: Connecting Community, Social Media | Leave a comment

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 [...]

June 20th, 2011 | Category: Connecting Community | Leave a comment

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 [...]

November 10th, 2010 | Category: Connecting Community, Social Media | Comments are closed

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 [...]

October 27th, 2010 | Category: Connecting Community, Social Media | Comments are closed

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 [...]

October 11th, 2010 | Category: Connecting Community, Social Media | Comments are closed

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 [...]

October 1st, 2010 | Category: Connecting Community | Comments are closed

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 [...]

August 16th, 2010 | Category: Connecting Community | Comments are closed

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 [...]

July 23rd, 2010 | Category: Connecting Community | Comments are closed
 
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