Adam McLane

Category: Web/Tech

  • 25 Video Tutorials for WordPress Users

    I’ve helped dozens of people switch to WordPress. (The blogging platform I use for this site.) It has the easiest learning curve of any blogging software on the market, but it can still be daunting for people new to online publishing. (For the record, I prefer the self-hosted version. The WordPress.com version is just so-so.)…

  • 2008 Buzz Words to Watch

    Let’s review the buzz words of 2007, then I’ll provide 5 buzz words to look out for in 2008. (Weighted towards internet stuff) Web 2.0, Digg.com, social networking, twitter/tweet, viral marketing, Mac, offline relationship, Facebook, search engine optimization, widgets, add value, and text lingo. Micro– Social networks, blog networks, online advertising, and a whole lot…

  • Stupid Microphone

    This morning I had a 5 minute bit in both services where I was asked to share the vision for Light Force in 2008. The first service went super smooth. I had a good train of thought, good rhythm, and over all it went well. During the second service, the mic cut in and out,…

  • First Things First, How Most Mornings Start

    I start each day pretty much the same way. Here’s a list of things I try to do in the morning. The days of grabbing a cup of coffee and reading the morning paper are long, long gone.  Download e-mail. This usually takes just a couple of seconds as almost everything I get is spam.…

  • vConvert allows you to save YouTube videos for use later

    One of my constant frustrations is that we struggle to use all the media we can find at our different ministry environments at Romeo. We feel like we always want to push the envelope and shape the culture around us instead of being a church that responds 2-3 years after the fact. In the last…

  • Bloggers: Turn off post excerpt

    With the tremendous increase in feed reader users and mobile blog reading… I really have to insist on this. You must make sure your feed is sending out the full post and not an except. (Called summary in WordPress) Why? The reality is that, as a blogger, you want your readers to actually read what…

  • Less than perfect Apple experience

    So I don’t get flamed, let me first say that there are a lot of things I like about my new iMac. It’s pretty and it has loads of power. OK, that’s out of the way. Now I can complain about the things I’m not thrilled with on my new computer. It arrived with the…

  • Google Vernacular

    My daughter is 6. She’s pretty smart. I don’t know if she is the smartest kid in her class but I tell her she is all the time. Tonight she and I were talking and she told me something very cool. “When you want to find something on the computer, you google it.“ I don’t…

  • Google Maps just got better

    Now my favorite mobile application tracks my location… for free. Now my smartphone is a free GPS, I love it!

  • Using Site Optimization on Your Website or Blog

    Well, that sounds a little too omniscient for a company. But when it comes to the web, Google pretty much knows everything that happens. If you administrate a website you must install Google Analytics onto your website or blog. Well, you need to do that if you care about getting to know who your readers…