The Importance of Domains with Lee Raney

We're really excited to have the founder of Koine Media and former owner of Christian.com, Lee Raney speaking about the value of domains and domain names. Lee is a Drupal web developer and an expert in web trends, technologies, and social media. He has an MBA and 12 years of experience in web development, project management, and IT consulting including: * Project Manager for a leading Dallas interactive agency, managing global website launches for Fortune 500 clients. * ERP systems consultant, including implementations, project management, training, support and testing. Primarily SAP and Oracle EnterpriseOne. * Architecting, building, implementating, testing and training of enterprise software and web-based applications. * Past corporate clients- Procter and Gamble, Dean Foods, Mannatech, Sikorsky Aircraft, Standard Pacific Homes, Praxair, Symbol Technologies * Past non-profit clients- Samaritan's Purse, Life Outreach, John Hagee Ministries, Focus on the Family, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Crown Financial Ministries Before co-founding Koine Media, Lee helped build several Christian websites including a social networking site. The practical experience of operating a social networking site and growing it to over 65,000 members provides rare experience on the business and management side of social networking and insight into the best practices for using Drupal for social networking. Lee has made several radio and TV appearances as an expert in on-line media, particularly in the non-profit sector. He has helped churches and non-profits with podcasting and on-line video through the SermonCast service, and more recently with MyFaith.com - a Christian video site. Lee is active in the Drupal community ("obiwan" on Drupal.org) and co-leads the Dallas Drupal Group. He resides in Frisco, Texas with his wife Jennifer and two sons.