Brigada

As I understand it, it’s a free website to promote connections between Christian people, churches, organizations, groups, resources and more. Check it out. Absolutely free. Feel free to comment below.

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I first heard about Bark Communications from a mega-church pastor in Columbus, Ohio. I was suggesting Clover, which is a good website development engine in and of itself. (It’s still the tool we use here at Team Expansion, in fact. Learn more about Clover at   http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada   Clover gives you lots of great tools [...]

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If you haven’t looked lately at Clover, it’s probably time to take a second glance. For example, this past week, they upgraded their “picture pages” and recently, they released a ton of other widgets at no extra charge to customers. Extremely artsy set of tools which will appeal deeply to your Mac-oriented set. On the [...]

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Robby is on the search for Web and/or Filemaker Programmers or Hobbyists who would like to collaborate on Kingdom-oriented projects. If you know someone who fits that description, encourage them to email Robby at RobbyQButlergmailcom   Robby says thanks!

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Thanks to Brigada participant, Bill, who just wrote, “We just set up a library for a K-8 school run by an inner-city ministry (City Impact, San Francisco.) Part of the set-up involved a handful of laptops and other donated computers. We wanted to make sure the kids weren’t exposed to pornography, and other undesirable sites.” [...]

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Boyd wants to know. He wrote this past week, “Many missionaries and appointees want something more significant than a blog, such as a personal website that is interactive. For example, you put a prayer letter on-line with a response coupon. You want people to fill out the coupon and have it come back to you. [...]

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Check it out… http://greatcommission2020.com/ Look at the volume they’re getting — 200,000 visits in a day! This group (Global Media Outreach, with a home page of http://www.globalmediaoutreach.com/ have seen their sites *soar* in visits, with some pages now having made it into the top “1000 most visited sites on the web.” Hats off and bravo, [...]

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Now you can. Browse to… http://www.websitegrader.com It’s fun to compare your own site to “competitors.” Now granted, there’s no competition among lighthouses. But let’s just say we *all* want to attract more ‘hits’ to our sites. Compare yourself to other agencies, churches, or individuals… and see what you come up with. And thanks to those [...]

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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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A buddy of mine working in a very sensitive field would like to know. He’ll use his VPN to watch this page directly. He wrote, “Two of the websites we made that got about 250K hits were recently blocked so we’re looking into alternatives.” Would you be able to direct him to any Facebook apps [...]

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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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Now, Wycliffe Associates UK can help you format your long documents. Check them out at… http://www.wycliffeassociates.org.uk They can do scripture materials, dictionaries and even hymn books. You can email them at…

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Three United States Regional Conferences are scheduled for early 2010. ACMC conferences are great for folks who are interested in missions and want their churches to be more effective in reaching the world. The speakers and workshops are helpful and interesting. The issues addressed are issues you are dealing with in your church.  Check out: [...]

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