Discovering Family Values

// July 5th, 2007 // 4 Comments » // Christianity, Community, Family, Family Values, Leadership, Parenting, Personal, Relationships, Writing

With our recent time in the hospital came some moments of down-time that really made me wonder what I value. In fact, not only what I value, but what we as a family value. Ashley and I had spent much time considering the question and verbalizing to one another what we believe and what we want to instill in our children. But are we getting through to the little ones with our family values? Are we taking every opportunity to model them for our kids?

YAPHP – Yet Another Paris Hilton Post

// June 8th, 2007 // No Comments » // Miscellaneous, News, Television, Writing

I can’t believe I am stooping this low, but I NEED to say something about Paris Hilton. Everyone else is. So, here is YAPHP (Yet Another Paris Hilton Post).

From Bubble Graphs to Mind Maps

// April 6th, 2007 // 3 Comments » // Business, Career, Design, Learning, Management, Personal, Programming, Venture Capital, Writing

Bubble Graphs

I can honestly say there are almost no learning techniques from Jr. High that I have carried forward through my short academic life into business. However, there is one gift that a now nameless, faceless teacher once gave me. That gift was the ability to put my thoughts on paper first, and then dork with them and refine them. She (I think it was a “she”) called them “Bubble Graphs”, but the point was to brainstorm about a topic for a speech, a paper, or an argument and document things. Then go back and do the organization and structuring of those thoughts, with a final output being an outline.

How to design News & Events pages for Churches?

// March 1st, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, News, Web Ministry, Writing

We are in the middle of a new web project where I work as Web Ministry Coordinator. We are completely overhauling our site design and information architecture with the help of Chris Merritt and Nathan Smith. Of the many things we are trying to do, including creating a staff blog on the church site, rolling a News & Events page is top on our list.

Why Netflix Gets It and Blockbuster Does Not

// February 23rd, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Business, Community, Design, Economy, Management, Movies, Programming, Television, Venture Capital, Writing

So I attempted to cancel my Blockbuster.com subscription a few moments ago because of a bad experience, and had to fill out a survey to get it done. There was a comment field where they asked “How Can We Improve? Would you mind taking a minute to explain why you’ve decided to cancel your account?” So, I was willing to help out and wrote the following in my very sick state (the flu or a cold maybe). Upon submission of the survey, a form error was returned on the comment field which reads: “Please type in 255 characters or less for your comments.”