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• Preventing Account Registration and Comment Spam in Community Server

  This site still isn't all that big or popular in the grand scheme of things, but I've been spending wasting too much time deleting spam comments and accounts recently. I was tired of deleting 20 comments each day and the spam accounts were more irritating Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:14 PM by Andrew Dawson | 5 Comments Filed under: web, Community Server

• More Online Christian Resources (via Michael Ludwig)

  A while back I'd posted some comments about wanting to compile a list of online Christian resources . It turns out my scholarly brother-in-law, Michael Ludwig , has done a lot of the work for me. He recently got a job doing sermon research for pastors, Read More... Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 10:53 PM by Andrew Dawson | 0 Comments Filed under: web, resources

• Back to the Blog and Looking To the Future

  Now that I've gotten online registration up and running, I strongly recommend you take a look at it and give it a try. If you have suggestions, let me know and I'll see what I can do. I just ask for patience. Unfortunately, it kept me from blogging, but Read More... Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 10:24 PM by Andrew Dawson | 0 Comments Filed under: web, NWMC, vision

• Online Christian Resources

  One of the things I've been wanting to do with this blog is compile a list of quality online resources that Christians can trust. Keep in mind everything online needs to be taken with a grain of salt and I'm not a great theologian, just a seminary dropout.* Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:43 PM by Andrew Dawson | 1 Comments Filed under: web, resources

• Rob Weingartner and Bill Young Discuss the Future of Mission for the PCUSA (and my 2 cents)

  Presbyterians For Renewal just posted a nice interview of Rob Weingartner and Bill Young . Rob and Bill are the Executive Directors of The Outreach Foundation and PFF . The question and answer session addresses the current state of things in the denomination, Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 6:17 PM by Andrew Dawson | 0 Comments Filed under: mission, web, Presbyterian

• PCUSA.org Highlights its RSS feeds

  After some of my recent rants and suggestions about how the PCUSA has been using RSS on its website, I have to give them props for highlighting a link to the page with their RSS feeds on their home page. While I don't know that my comments had anything Read More... Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 2:22 PM by Andrew Dawson | 0 Comments Filed under: web, RSS, Presbyterian, feeds

• Some Reasons the PCUSA Should Use a Full-Text RSS Feed

  I'm still not entirely thrilled with the tone my last few posts about RSS and the Presbyterian Church (USA). I think the last one was pretty accurate, but it still left a bad taste in my mouth. I hope to contrast those posts with some suggestions. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 6:15 PM by Andrew Dawson | 1 Comments Filed under: web, RSS, Presbyterian, feeds Attachment(s): PCUSA_RSS.Jpg

• Online Christian Education Resources

  I'm not sure if this is really what I want to title this, but I want to get an idea out and see if I can get some feedback. A response to a post I made a couple months ago got me thinking about what resources the web can provide in Christ's mission. Read More... Posted Friday, December 08, 2006 1:04 AM by Andrew Dawson | 1 Comments Filed under: mission, web, faith, resources, education

• PCUSA RSS Feeds Resolution (or lack thereof)

  It's been a week and a half since I initiated trying to add the PCUSA's missionary letters to the website. I'm giving up for the time being. It was a task that should have taken 5 minutes, but has involved multiple emails and haven't received Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:28 PM by Andrew Dawson | 2 Comments Filed under: mission, web, RSS, Presbyterian, feeds

• PCUSA RSS Frustrations Continue

  I've subscribed to the PCUSA New RSS feed again (I now have 3 PCUSA RSS subscriptions in my reader from the last 3-6 months). I'm really excited about the site integrating RSS, especially this feed of missionary letters , but I can't figure Read More... Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 9:57 AM by Andrew Dawson | 2 Comments Filed under: mission, web, RSS, websites, Presbyterian, feeds

• I Found RSS feeds on the PCUSA's website!

  Two and a half days after my RSS rant , I found feeds on the PCUSA website. They're just buried really deep and a bit of a pain to subscribe to. Most websites just includes a link to the feed. That way, you can click on it to view the feed or right-click Read More... Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 9:32 AM by Andrew Dawson | 0 Comments Filed under: web, RSS, websites, Presbyterian, feeds Attachment(s): feed-icon16x16.png

• Christian Website = Hates RSS?

  It's driving me crazy that I can't find Christian websites with RSS! What is RSS? Google calls it "your inbox for the web." RSS is a technology used to help find out what's new on your favorite websites without having to visit each Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:25 PM by Andrew Dawson | 0 Comments Filed under: web, RSS, Presbyterian, feeds

• How to Create a Forum Post Video

  Here's a little video (3:30) I just put together about how to make a basic forum post. I'll add some more shorter ones to demonstrate more advanced techniques. I'm still working to get the integrated flash player working right, so please hang Read More... Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 1:11 AM by Andrew Dawson | 0 Comments Filed under: web, NWMC, Community Server, how to, forums Attachment(s): how_to_post_to_forums.swf

• The Web Helps Give Support to Deserving Missions

  Scott Sunquist described a new "blended model" of mission . This as a combination of traditional organizations such as denominations, conferences and organizations supporting and working with grassroots efforts empowered by new communication Read More... Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 10:54 PM by Andrew Dawson | 0 Comments Filed under: mission, web

• Creating Trust With Blogs

  Robert Scoble , one of the best known technology bloggers I regularly read, recently wrote about the blog trust network . He does a great job explaining how it works. It's not too different from any other type of networking. In a few words, people Read More... Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 10:33 PM by Andrew Dawson | 0 Comments Filed under: mission, web, blogging, networking