If you’re looking for a guide to help your favorite organization get Web savvy, try Mark Stephenson’s new book, Web-Empower Your Church. Stephenson is the Director of CyberMinistry and Technology at Ginghamsburg Church, a United Methodist church in Tipp City, Ohio. Ginghamsburg, an old church in the middle of corn country, has a 4000+ page [...]
Make Sure Your Telecom Team Has at Least One Good Writer Writing well for the Web requires clarity and brevity. Fewer and fewer people write well these days, so if your site features clear and concise writing, your message will be well appreciated. But, what if you don’t write well? Then practice, practice, practice! Find [...]
Use Pictures, Videos, and Sound Files to Get Your Message Across While text is an indispensable medium for Web communication, it cannot be consumed in large quantities. Computer screens, no matter how good, tire the eyes; and scrolling down to read more text gets wearisome quickly. Pictures help to communicate without words, music adorns and [...]
I noticed in my hometown paper that I have been part of a recent consumer trend: increasing demand for outdated equipment, like wind-up watches, and film cameras. I’m trendy, all right, guilty on both counts! If you happen to be fond of excellently made but technologically obsolete cameras you may be interested in the following [...]
In this post I begin a CyberKen long term project of providing communities of faith a place to share with the world what they cherish about their particular way of worshiping and serving God. I have begun very close to home, with a church where I was privileged to serve as pastor, Hanover Street Presbyterian [...]
A neighbor gave me a good old Minolta manual focus camera a while ago (an SRT 101), so I decided to put a couple of rolls through it, and was pleased with the outcome. Then, since I already had a collection of good Nikon lenses, I decided to buy a Nikon F3, which was produced [...]
Beginning digital photographers are likely to start with “point and shoot” cameras which do everything for you: focus automatically, expose automatically. Some of these cameras have rather low resolution capabilities. My first was a 2 megapixel Fuji. Nevertheless, even with simple and inexpensive cameras like that you can take some terrific photos if you are [...]
EXIF stands for “Exchageable Image File Format”. EXIF information is embedded in the code of photos taken by most digital cameras. If a Flickr member has allowed “More Properties” to show in his/her photo stream, then viewers can see EXIF information by clicking on “More Properties” under “Additional Information”, to the right of each photo. [...]
On a recent Meet-up outing to the beautiful little town of Chesapeake City, Maryland, I tagged along with my Brandywine Photo Collective friend, Gerry Meekins, to learn how he shoots with a vintage 4×5 camera. (That’s photog speak for four inches by five inches, the most popular negative size for large format photography). What is [...]
I’ve had the opportunity to help a number of organizations prepare digital pictures for their websites, and I observe that the poor quality of some of those photos has more to do with the way people use their cameras rather than the quality of the cameras themselves. Here are the three most frequent mistakes: 1. [...]
