Here’s the thing…
My focus in life is pretty simple right now, which is just work and triathlon training. I’m not active in any sort of leadership or ministry role, such as Royal Rangers. Most of my 20’s I spent a good deal of my free time on the flip side, while of course still working. So here and there in my free time I try to develop stuff on side projects. This quick rant is all about that.
Project: dynamic websites for organizational groups (wpmu)
When I was webmaster of Penn-Del Royal Ranger’s website, I wanted to turn it into a dynamically functional site, where I could hand over content management to the staff. Also wanted to centralize communications and data, so the website serve as the center for all of that.
These days it isn’t too big a challenge with all the free and low cost resources available. It is just a matter of knowing what’s what and how to make it work effectively.
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Quick thoughts and points…
- How aware are you of your default privacy? Not just privacy settings on websites and social networks, yet with everything, including stuff like your contact information, your identity, etc? Do you just give up your privacy?
- How aware are you of keeping other people’s privacy? How respectful? Do you share without permission?
- Do you bother reading the terms of service and disclaimers?
- Do you fill out those welcome cards too openly when visiting a group, church, or organization? Do they bother telling you what they really do with that information and will they respect your privacy and ask your permission?
I can add a lot more, yet will stop with that.
It is a common notion these days that there is no privacy. Thing is privacy has become more and more technical, not exactly meaning as in technology, rather more in a legalistic sense. It is too easy to default to public and to give up our privacy. It is there, you just need to be aware of it and continuously work to preserve it. It isn’t that sharing openly and publicly is bad, just being ignorant of it is bad.
This blog deals a lot with leadership, ministry, and discipleship (developing people). I know that non-profit organizations are mostly frail and usually struggle with resources. So it is hard for a ministry, church, or group to get privacy issues down when it comes to communications and doing what they do with people.
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Right now I am drafting my annual “New Years Resolution (Goal Setting) and Year In Review” post on my personal blog. (Yes, 3 blogs is a lot, though segmenting areas of my life helps.) This post is directly related to that, as well as externalizing some big things in my life. Today I did discover my theme for 2010 will be “Venturing into the Wild Wild“, which is a mix of the wild wild west and the wilderness.
Why I am “Silent Eagle” and why this is relevant
This isn’t the story behind my Frontiersman Camping Fellowship name (aka my Indian name), rather why people have identified my spirit and being as such. I also go by shevdog, a nickname I have had since high school. (I’ll explain the story behind my nickname “shevdog” another day.)
I bike and run through and nearby James Audubon’s Pennsylvanian homestead just outside of Valley Forge National Historical Park, where a bird sanctuary resides. As with many of these safe havens for birds, they are kept safe, cared for, and restored to health. Often when I visit bird sanctuaries I see magnificent birds, such as owls, hawks, and sometimes eagles. To see a bird of prey like an eagle trapped in a cage, recovering from injury touches me with various saddening and empathetic emotions.
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It is about time I do a simple post on some web development stuff. Here’s something I commonly share with people when it comes to the elements of a website for organizations. In short, these elements are the parts you’ll likely need, regardless of the scale of your organization.
Content Elements:
- About
- News
- Calendar
- Events
- Contacts
About
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I love when people say “you can’t do that!“ Oh yeah, well just wait and see. Ok, I’m not an anarchist or anything, I just don’t like limits and ridiculous conformity.
The above image is two climbing routes up K2, which is the world toughest mountain to climb. There are lots of mountains in the world to climb, but the mountainman that exists in outdoorsman like me deep down want to climb the highest and the hardest mountain. Is climbing K2 or Everest on my “Bucket List“? Sure is, though not as high on the list as you’d think.
So what is? Well, I’d like to climb at least 2 American prime summits. I also would like to bike/backpack Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. Yet I think if I had to pick between those options, aside from wanting to do them all, I’d opt out and would want to have enough time to backpack the entire Appalachian Trail, starting from Maine and ending in Georgia.
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