I submitted my first article for our new Faith & Technology blog today. We are starting this up as a collaborative effort between several clergy and lay people around our Conference. Its purpose is to discuss technology and the various ways in which it impacts faith and our local church community. This is my first [...]
Archive for the ‘Social Networks’ Category
22 Jul
Faith & Technology
Posted by Douglas in Church, Internet, Social Networks. Tagged: blog, faith, Internet, social networks, Technology, Websites. Leave a Comment
12 Jun
Annual Conference is Almost Over!
Posted by Douglas in Church, Internet, Social Networks, Websites. Tagged: annual conference, greenville, news room, social networks, Websites. Leave a Comment
Annual Conference is over! This was a very good year. All of our systems functioned properly throughout and we had an extra day to set up our operations. The extra day really helped us with making sure that everything was working before we got started. From an operations standpoint I hope we never lose that [...]
10 Jun
Social Networks Redirect Issue
Posted by Douglas in Church, Internet, Security, Social Networks. Tagged: facebook, gmail, google, malware, myspace, redirect, Security, web. 1 Comment
While managing the network infrastructure at our Annual Conference I have run across a weird redirect issue. All of the computers in the News Room running Windows XP, Vista and 7 started redirecting to MySpace pages. In the beginning it was redirecting to an actual profile. After an hour or so the website started returning [...]
21 Aug
The Digital Beyond
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Privacy, Social Networks, Websites. Tagged: beyond, death, digital, Internet, life, networks, social. 1 Comment
My friend Evan Carroll is working on an interesting project called The Digital Beyond. This project seeks to explore what happens to our online data after we die. We spend a lot of time creating gigabytes worth of data on all of our favorite social networks. What happens to that data when we pass on? [...]
18 Aug
What Would Jesus Twitter?
Posted by Douglas in Church, Internet, Social Networks. Leave a Comment
I saw this presentation live at Ignite Raleigh a few weeks ago. When the speaker comes out the crowd gave an audible groan. When he was finished he got one of the best ovations of the evening! The crowd reaction doesn’t show up as good as I wished it did. Trust me, I was there!
7 Aug
Ignite Raleigh
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Learning, Social Networks. Tagged: facebook, ignite, networking, raleigh, social, Technology, twitter. 1 Comment
A good friend of mine invited me to attend the Ignite Raleigh event this week. Neither of us really knew what to expect but we decided to go anyway. We had a blast! The Lincoln Theater was packed with over 500 attendees. Everyone was walking around with their smart phones out, Facebooking and Twittering the [...]
7 Aug
Who Killed Twitter?
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Security, Social Networks, Websites. Tagged: ddos, Internet, networks, Security, social, twitter. Leave a Comment
PC Mag Editor Lance Ulanoff writes about who killed Twitter. The answer is that we are the ones killing it through a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. The DDoS problem is a whale of a different color, however. All you people who I’ve warned over and over again to install or update your security [...]
13 Jul
United Breaks Guitars
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Social Networks, Websites. Tagged: airline, broken, guitar, luggage, taylor, twitter, united, youtube. 1 Comment
One of the many ways in which the internet powers individuals is the ability to take concerns public. Dave Carroll entrusted United Airlines with a $3500 guitar and they destroyed it. Fed up with bad customer support he decided to take his situation public. The speed at which information travels across the internet never ceases [...]
11 Jul
Dinosaur Trail Preview
Posted by Douglas in General, Learning, Social Networks. Tagged: dinosaur, facebook, life, museum, Science, trail, twitter. Leave a Comment
The family and I visited the Museum of Life and Science in Durham today to participate in their Dinosaur Trail Preview. The trail officially opens up on July 25th, but is now open for members and special guests. A few days ago the museum posted an invitation on their Twitter feed for all bloggers and [...]
7 Jul
Rethink Church
Posted by Douglas in Church, Social Networks. Tagged: 10 thousand doors, Church, facebook, google maps, methodist, twitter, umc, umcom, volunteer. 4 Comments
During our annual conference I was heavily exposed for the first time to the new Rethink Church campaign coming from United Methodist Communications (UMCOM). Being on the conference staff I have heard rumblings about this initiative, but this was the first time I a full presentation. The communications folks started talking about this months ago [...]
