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Web Design Standards
As a ministry, our web content is being viewed in more browsers, on more devices, and across more service providers than ever before. If we don’t design and implement with these considerations in mind, we will orphan those we intend to reach. We've created the Web Design Standards document to address some of these concerns.
Continue reading...What Motivates You and Your Team?
10. June 2010
One of the books that’s moving around our offices here at North Point is the new book Drive by Daniel Pink. It’s challenging a lot of our staff and management to really ask the tough questions about how to best motivate employees and team members. Here’s a video that explains some of the book, etc. What is motivating [...]
Continue reading...Scenes From the NorthPointOnline.tv 2.0 Launch
10. May 2010
In April we launched the new (2nd) version of http://northpointonline.tv during the 11am service. I’ll leave the tech talk for those closer to the code than I am and instead, I’ll share some pictures from behind the scenes.
Continue reading...Scheduling Blog Posts
20. April 2010
It’s a tough world we live in, isn’t it? Add trying to coordinate a few crazy-busy people to drop blog posts can drive people over the edge…! So how can it be done? What’s our strategy? Very simple: Create a Master Schedule, assign dates, and then commit. It’s that simple really! What we’ve done is assign our team [...]
Continue reading...Dragons, Unicorns, Embedded Video in Emails and other myths
15. April 2010
Every couple of months or so we get a request for embedding a video within an email. Our immediate reaction is to do a spit take (I think I actually did one once), so we wanted to let you know why this makes us shudder to think about. The answer will always be no, and [...]
Continue reading...Social Media Guidelines
30. March 2010
We believe in our staff and their ability to manage their online presence with thoughtfulness and wisdom. But, not everyone is oftentimes aware of their responsibility in the social media world! So, we created some Social Media Guidelines to help educate our staff about acceptable usage, etc. You can take a look at our policy here.
Continue reading...Helping Our Boss Prepare for the Future: 40 Years+!
25. March 2010
Our team decided to celebrate Russell’s 40th birthday with a few items of necessity: Bi-focals Men’s depends A wheelchair Various items to make him more “comfortable” for his aging body A cane Ex-Lax and more! Congrats on the big 40! Some more shots after the jump… and a video!!!
Continue reading...Why Validate?
26. February 2010
So I have spent some hours this week making sure that our web sites are "valid". This means going through and filling out "ALT" tags in images, making sure "INPUTS" have a trailing "/" at the end and that your randon "DIV" has a closing "DIV" to match it. What does that /really/ mean to my team? why does that matter? Well.. this is from the w3c site:
Continue reading...Of Email Systems and Newsletters…
28. January 2010
Email Newsletters are still all the rage. Sometimes, on a bad day, I just wish they would go away. It’s probably because I’m over email newsletter systems; most of them just don’t work well and cross-browser and email client testing can be such a hassle. But, it’s still a significant part of how we communicate to our [...]
Continue reading...Building Teams by Admitting We’re Dysfunctional!
26. January 2010
Let’s admit it. We’re human, and as human beings go we’re not very good at being “perfect.” This obviously complicates everything the moment we get in teams. To think that we even have the capacity to do anything productive without killing each other! But, we do. So, as a result, not only do we need to be [...]
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2. November 2010
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