Which would be the smarter way to run a project: Leave all decisions-making power and creative control to a single person with a genius IQ, or Share decisions and idea-making among a team of interested people? There may be some power-hungry geniuses who could effectively argue the first choice, but my money is on a […]

Every time I take a trip, I tell myself I will be even more organized. I’m not sure if I’ll ever reach that state of packing nirvana, but here are a few tools that help take the stress off the week before traveling for business: Universal Packing List is a nifty program that lets you

My friend Aaron Spiegel from the Alban Institutes’s Center for Congregations dug up an interesting commentary on the sins of church websites, “10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website,” which he sites here. The original post was written several years ago, and while some church websites have

Trying to describe what a web design will look like or what we’re about to change with a layout is a challenge over the phone, especially with the limits of technical jargon. The best way to communicate tricky changes is to show them. I know there are a million collaboration tools like WebEx and Genesys

It’s long been my holding that the nonprofits that stand to gain the most from use of web technologies are the least likely to use them. Here are three pieces I’ve come across lately that encourage nonprofits – secular and faith-based – to step it up, and examine how the field is evolving. Good reading:

Volunteers are a gift to a nonprofit website. The problem is, well, they’re volunteers. You’re counting on them to help out, but you’ve got respect their time and other limitations. A salary is a powerful incentive you can’t use with a volunteer. (Check out 21 Ways Volunteers Can Help with Your Website.) It’s a chronic

Targeting and addressing your website audience isn’t a problem for synagogues alone. Web ventures across the secular and religious world grapple with the same problem. But it’s important to know who you want to attract to your site, because it will affect not only how you build it, but who might be attending services and

I admit to an obsession: I must know where you’ve been clicking when you go to the Talance.com website. And an excellent service I found today is only fueling my need. CrazyEgg is a tool that lets you see in different graphical formats where people are clicking on your website, or what are known as

[This article about how politicians in the UK are using the Web appears in the February issue of N-TEN.] by Monique Cuvelier, Talance, Inc. Back when everyone was saying Al Gore “invented the Internet,” no one rolled their eyes more than the Brits. Back then, the very notion of Internet-based technologies was enough to send

Someone wrote me yesterday looking for details on how I work with clients. I was saying on an N-TEN blog that it’s important to perform an internal needs assessment before you really begin to work with a website developer. People generally know when they need a new site, but many tend not to start by