What does Permaculture Design have to do with Web sites?

I'm in the process of overhauling this site to reflect the fact that I'm shifting the business's focus toward permaculture design.  There are a number of reasons why I'm doing this:

Welcome to Interdependent Web

Permaculture Design services

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Intro to Web Programming course materials

Here are the materials for the four-part course on Web development:
 

Boundary Optimization and other Lessons for Art Therapy

Today we presented a workshop at the American Art Therapy Association's annual conference in Washington, DC.  The slideshow for the presentation was too image-heavy to convert to a Google Doc, so we can't embed it here as a slideshow, but you can view or download a PDF copy.

Introduction to Permaculture Design, Bartlesville OK

Here are the slides from the two-night introductory class I'm teaching in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA tonight and tomorrow:

Curriculum Vitae: Permaculture Designer

Formal Education

Areas of Competence and Expertise

  • broad scale site des

Engaging our Interdependent Web

Here is the slideshow for the presentation Jessie and I are giving this afternoon at the Prairie Star District Unitarian Universalist Association Annual Meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dgp4g6j2_439dknbfs32

How to Publish an RSS feed with Feedburner and Facebook

In a previous post I made the case for using RSS feeds instead of email newsletters.  A crucial part of this substitution is to use the free Feedburner service so that those readers who want to receive your news by email can do so.  Then to sweeten the deal, subscribe to the feed on your Facebook page so that each time you post news on your Web site, it shows up on Facebook automatically!  Here's how to go about it:

Top 10 Reasons Email Newsletters are a Bad Idea

At DrupalCon this year, I attended an impromptu meeting of some 50 Web developers who work on church Web sites.  We had an hour to talk about anything we wanted, but we spent the entire time talking about best practices for email newsletters.  The more we talked, the more we came to the conclusion that email newsletters are an ineffective and inefficient method of communication, and that a reliance on email newsletters can blind an organization to better options that are available.

Testing Facebook connection

I'm using the Networked Blogs app for Facebook to import the RSS feed from this site to the Interdependent Web Facebook page.  Let's see if it's working...

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