February 12th, 2010

I recently finished a project for West Salem Foursquare Church in Salem, OR (my home church). It was awesome working with the lead pastor and the youth pastor to pull this site together.
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Tags: Blog, Church, CSS, Design, Portfolio, Social Media, Website, WordPress
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January 27th, 2010

Taptu is a mobile search company based out of the UK. They recently contacted me to redesign their blog. Their goal was to integrate the blog with their overall branding and incorporate the various social media tools used by the company. Some of the features of the new blog are:
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Tags: Blog, Blogging, Design, Online, Portfolio, Social Media, Social Networking, Taptu, Twitter, Web, Website, Websites, WordPress
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January 19th, 2010

Many companies (churches and ministries included) are anxious to build a great website, but have not thought about strategy. They have grandiose ideas about what their website will look like, but they have not thought about the purpose behind the website.
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Tags: Blog, Church, Communications, Culture, Design, Ministry, Online, Social Media, Strategy, Tools, Web, Website, Websites
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October 3rd, 2009

If you have been following this series, by now you should have a pretty good grip on social life on the web. But maybe you want to step it up a notch and go for the Grand Daddy of life online and get a blog of your own. That’s great, but where do you start? There are so many options out there and so much to learn about the blogging world. Well, don’t get discouraged. Starting and maintaining a blog is not as hard as it may look. You don’t need to be a programming genius to get started. In fact, with the tools available today, starting a blog can be as easy as writing an email. In this post I will give you a few great options for starting a blog.
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Tags: Blog, Blogging, Micro-Blogging, Social Media, Tools, Tumblr, WordPress
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September 24th, 2009

So now you have your Gravatar, and you’re plugged in to a social network or two. You will notice shortly that it is easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of information that is out there. Checking a dozen blogs each day can be taxing on your time and is not very productive. It gets even worse as you begin to build your reading list to hundreds of blogs that you’d like to read. Luckily there is an easy way to keep up to date with your favorite websites without wasting your time. Wouldn’t it be great if you could be notified when a site posts a new article? Well, you’re in luck. Let me introduce you to RSS.
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Tags: Blog, Blogging, Feed, Google, Google Reader, RSS, Subscription, Tools
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