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Engaging our Interdependent Web

Submitted by Ben Stallings on Sat, 04/09/2011 - 09:04

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

Submitted by Ben Stallings on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 15:01

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

Submitted by Ben Stallings on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:07

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 Android Drupal editor

Submitted by Ben Stallings on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 10:48

Can I post from my Eris phone?

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