[Magdalen] What We Believe - St. Paul's Bellingham

[Jay Weigel]

Dear Scott, I've said it before and I'll say it again--you're too nice. You
need to set a date on which you will no longer be responsible for the
website, make that date public, and hold to it. Period. If nobody picks it
up, it's Not Your Problem.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, a parishioner who's unhappy with the rector has asked me to delete
> all her extensive content and photos, so it'll soon be a fairly dire
> website. I'm certainly not going to replenish it myself, so it'll need
> someone to pick it up.
> On Jul 28, 2015 2:53 PM, "Lynn Ronkainen" <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > the church let the website die when the burned out worker has to leave
> > without being supported in this healthy decision after a number of years
> > getting things started and sticking with them.... IIRC...
> >
> > L
> >
> > website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >
> > When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> not
> > a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
> me."
> > attributed to Erma Bombeck
> > "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> > by Richard Rohr
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Scott Knitter" <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 1:56 PM
> > To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] What We Believe - St. Paul's Bellingham
> >
> >  I worked with professional web people in Chicago, epagecity.com, to do
> >> the
> >> last two makeovers. They host our site as well. But I'm the one
> >> responsible
> >> for updates of content and I burnt out on this long ago. I'm doing a
> >> minimal job of it. Not a model volunteer, I know. But volunteer roles
> >> aren't supposed to be eternal. I know one solution is to let it drop.
> Just
> >> stop doing it, and then forever be the jerk who let the website die.
> >> Shouldn't have to come to that nor require months of persistent
> whingeing.
> >> On Jul 28, 2015 1:41 PM, "ME Michaud" <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>  I like it.
> >>> Quibble: lay is a noun? Human isn't either.
> >>> -Old-fashioned M, a human being and layperson
> >>>
> >>> Scott: don't they have web people in Chicago? We hire this
> >>> work out. It's worth the cost. We don't grow our own coffee
> >>> or make our own candles either.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> > > website, but in particular this web page about "what we believe'
> and
> >>> > > > thought I'd share... I think it is excellent, if somewhat longish
> >>> but I
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
>