Monk Development v 2.0

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 9, 2005 in Church Technology, Monk Dev | 0 comments

Last time I had to throw something up in one night so I re-did my Monk Development site. Monk Development delivers web-based strategies for clients who want to expand in the internet arena. (Web development, Search Engine Marketing, Viral Marketing, Search Engine Optimization.)

Musolist – Local Musician Classifieds

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 24, 2005 in Church Technology, Monk Dev | 3 comments

I’m going to be re-developing a site for Musolist. Musolist allows you to list free classifieds to find musicians and/or bands in your local town. In the next 30 days the site will be totally revamped for you to use and will add a lot of new features. Post your free ads today. If you are a church planter this can even help you gather musicians to your worship team.

Burnside Writers Collective LAUCHED

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 26, 2005 in Church Technology, Monk Dev | 3 comments

We’ll we’ve done a soft launch but there will be tons of mentioning Burnside Writers Collective in magazines, articles and the new books by Miller and others. Authors include Donald Miller, Rick McKinley, Jordan Green, Lauren F. Winner, Chris Seay. Musicians include Derek Webb and the Robbie Seay Band. Current articles include:

Arcade Fire, Funeral and The Killers, Hot Fuss
Interview: Al James of Dolorean
David Dark, The Gospel According to America

If you’d like to submit work to be included, email Jordan Green.

There will be many more tweaks to come. Email updates, ecommerce, some flash fun…but go check it out.

Evils & Injustice in Hosting Providers

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 15, 2005 in Church Technology, Monk Dev | 0 comments

I’m helping a church re-do their website and move hosting companies. They currently use Easyspace. I was ready to transfer the domains (2) and whamo! I read the fine print:

If you are ready to transfer your domain away from us simply click “Proceed” which will take you to the secure online payment area. Please note that all domain transfers away incur an administration fee of ¬£49.00 ex VAT.

These people are criminals.

Burnside Writers Collective

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 2, 2005 in Church Technology, Culture, Monk Dev | 2 comments

The Burnside project I’m working on got some press in it too:

One of his big plans, in fact, is to make the Rose City the hub of a national network of unconventional Christian writers, which he’s calling the Burnside Writers Collective. There’s Chris Seay, the pastor at ex-witch Kelly Hall’s church in Houston, author of books called The Gospel According to Tony Soprano and The Tao of Enron; McKinley, pastor of Miller’s own congregation, Imago Dei, will publish Jesus in the Margins this fall. Miller is characteristically self-effacing, calling plans to coordinate the promotion of a select bunch of writers through a website “a bait-and-switch operation, a cynical effort to sell more books.”

Miller sent me a bunch of stuff this morning, so we should be wrapping up pretty soon. He also sent me an article from Relevant Magazine, where he mentioned Burnside again:

Miller’s currently planning a creative community called the Burnside Writers Collective, an outlet for a group of writers/thinkers/speakers who are writing similar literature. “I want to create a catch-all for like-minded thinkers,” Miller said. “There are some cool voices out there that I think are entertaining and real and raw and profound, so it will be cool to shine the spotlight on some of these voices.” The initial lineup includes Miller, McKinley, Houston pastor and author Chris Seay and singer/songwriter Derek Webb. “We will make their stuff available online, and then also plan river trips, conferences and this sort of thing people can go to, to spend time with them,” he said.

I’m going to see if I can post the article…it’s for the March/April 2005 issue.

Monk Development

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 6, 2005 in Church Technology, Monk Dev | 0 comments

We’ve just launched Monk Development. Monk Development‘s services include web development, search engine optimization, SEM online marketing. We also built a SEO system called 3Prophet System which we’ll launch a full site for later.

monk n. – a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work.

Monk only works with a select group of clients that we become religiously passionate about. Upon gathering the clients objectives we ‘cloister ourself’ and ‘devote’ time to ‘contemplation, prayer and work’ on the project. There is no platonic dualism in life. Our work is unto God and is sacred.