Apopos of the news that the UUA’s magazine, UUA World is going from six to four issues a year, and that there will be more fulsome web content, I thought I place my order for a news feed. It has become my #1 way of getting headlines, and I imagine its use will grow and… Continue reading Methodist Church (GB) feeds news
Category: Technology
Open formats for worship
David Warnock, a British Methodist student minister, blogs very well at 42. A few days ago, he was musing about the current lack of open standards for liturgy software. I asked, “huh?” and he graciously responded. It is about using feeds for the Bible, hymns, etc. to be fed into a common aggregating application. It… Continue reading Open formats for worship
A model for a web magazine and a church plant
Philocrites has made it clear that blog-like software can be useful for making new publications possible. (And I agree, provided they’re not all dubbed blogs.) I want to make it clear that just because a certain religious group appears to be numerically successful that they have models that would apply to Unitarian Universalist, or even… Continue reading A model for a web magazine and a church plant
Display banner idea
One of the things I do at the Day Job is trade show exhibiting. I’ve seen good ideas and bad for booths and displays — my prior experience having been mostly sitting the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship table at General Assembly — and I may ready to recommend a product. We have one of these,… Continue reading Display banner idea
Church work at home
Regular readers know I have an interest in using technology to simplify or enhance the work of churches. I was reading Heal Your Church Website when I came to this passage by MeanDean (the author) Together, the need to outsource office work and to support off-site lay-workers has given rise to the need for many… Continue reading Church work at home
CHMOD primer
Philocrites has said that blog ‘ware is too hard for non-geeks, and I said it needn’t be so if there were detailed directions for some of the housekeeping pieces, like setting permissions on the server (remote computer that has the files) — this is the enigmatic CHMOD. Here’s one tutorial for a commonly-used File Tranfer… Continue reading CHMOD primer
Blog software for other purposes
Philocrites opined that In the interests of full technical disclosure, though, I am trying to find simple ways to introduce basic CMS to UU writers — preferably the sort that doesn’t require busy ministers to learn how to manage Drupal or write php or muck around with scripts and codes. (I’ve been learning Drupal and… Continue reading Blog software for other purposes
Meet, greet
Philo the Unshorn commented: Urm, this is never gonna work. Unless you end up with, oh, say 20 people in the same city, a Meetup is an impractical way to gather a group. TheRightChristians.org, bless their overly ambitious hearts, thought a blog with a couple hundred readers a day could launch like-minded Meetups, but even… Continue reading Meet, greet
Universalist Christians Meetup
Well, though I’ve had no luck with Meetup.com, it isn’t stopping others from trying to organize something for Universalist Christians — to “Meet other local Universalists or people interested in Universalism, the belief in the eventual salvation of all creation.” (And before you get your pants in a knot about the “exclusivity” of such a… Continue reading Universalist Christians Meetup
A UU and Moodle
A while back, I was writing about the usefulness of Moodle, an open source learning management system, for Unitarian Universalists and others. (But on reflection, it might have been one of a set of articles obliterated by a worm.) Some seminaries (Earlham, Bethany, St. Vladimir’s, Goshen, Southwest Episcopal) have Moodle sites for their students. Some… Continue reading A UU and Moodle