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Starting up your website? Looking for a place to refresh it with a new and vibrant look? Our Creative Arts Associate at Team Expansion still prefers Clover. See the possibilities at…   http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada   Yes, there are other “database-driven” alternatives, some of which are less investment. Clover will set you back, like, $1000. After that [...]

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Over the past few months, I’ve been trying to watch out for great websites among ministries and missions. I’ve formed some general conclusions; see if you agree. *** The front page should be living and vibrant: By that, I mean it should change… *often*. At least once a week, if not more so. If it [...]

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Yesterday I asked my two sons what they thought about the new Team Expansion website, now staged at CloverSites: http://www.teamexpansion.org They *raved*. One son (the 20-year-old) said, “Dad, I’ll be a missionary with Team Expansion now that your website is this cool.” :-) OK… maybe his comment was tongue-in-cheek (although he *is* actually leading a [...]

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Never Fear. Clover is here. Check ‘em out at… http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada See all the features they have now, as well as the new features they’ll have starting Apr. 28th in their “2.0″ service (which will be the same price, by the way; and current users will be upgraded automatically for free). http://www.cloversites.com/greenhouse-updates I personally have set [...]

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I’ve gone on record saying, “I don’t know of a single, solitary more effective web-authoring solution for the non-web-professional.” Just browse to… http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada and be sure to notice the upgrades they’ll do in April — to “Greenhouse 2.0.” Interestingly, once these new capabilities come online, some web-professionals might start using Clover as well, just because [...]

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I continue to be high on Clover. (Not the weed, mind you.) Check them out at… http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada They have a *bundle* of new features coming out. Check them out at… http://www.cloversites.com/greenhouse-updates A new media player (that will automatically play your videos), a new calendar, podcasting, font-sizing, linkable pictures, passworded pages, the ability to refer to [...]

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We’re grateful this week for Carter (of Crossroads) and Michael (of Suzhou), both of whom signed up recently for Cloversites… which resulted in thank-you gifts from Cloversites to Brigada… to the tune of $100 each! Can you believe it? These two new friends become two new True Friends of Brigada, and they get a website [...]

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If you’re considering developing or switching your web presence, take a look at… http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada See their feature list at… http://www.cloversites.com/promo/Clover%20Features.pdf I completed my first webpages there in a matter of *minutes*. Honest. And the tech support people have been stellar. I actually got a call from a real human (who knew how to use the [...]

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Ministries without staff to build a website on their own or the budget to hire a design firm can leverage Web-Site-Now to get a template-based site up within hours. Perfect for starter sites or special events. Owner Michael is a PCA elder and an automation zealot for over 25 years. Websites start at $249 and [...]

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Remember that discussion on blogging (Feb. 1, 2009, “For the Bloggers among us”) ? It’s turned into quite a stream of responses — from samples of great blogs to instructions on how to do it. Check it out at: http://www.brigada.org/2009/02/2.html Got an additional comment? You can even log on to share in total confidence, anonymously. [...]

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I saw this item in the Perspectives alumni publication, sent out by Gloria Sewall. (Thanks Gloria.) She pointed us to MinistryHome.org http://ministryhome.org/ because they offer a safe and ministry-driven alternative to social networking sites. According to Gloria, “Individuals serving in the field can promote their ministry, raise funds, build teams, and network with like-minded individuals [...]

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Here’s a mission team in a Muslim land with 6 local volunteers who are wanting to help answer 400 emails from seekers that are starting to rot in our inbox. After finding them, the team put together a pretty good plan for getting them access to computers/DSL/VPNs, etc. But now they need a secure way [...]

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Perhaps you’ve noticed the new way we’re converting email addresses for use in Brigada’s website. We first tried an online conversion program, but because several users feared that it was somehow going to keep track of the email addresses (and spam them), we switched to a new approach where we use a piece of software [...]

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