by Rhett Smith on August 28, 2008
I found this video of Donald Miller’s pre-benediction video over at Brian Kiley’s blog. The video is done by Sarah Pulliam for Christianity Today. Good video. Curious what you think? I hesitate to get into politics because it never seems to turn out well…conversationally speaking with many people. When Donald Miller came to our college [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 27, 2008
The below is an excerpt from Seth Godin’s post the dead zone of slick. There was a terrific duo playing live music at the farmer’s market the other day. They were well-rehearsed, enthusiastic and really good. Being a patron of the arts, I bought a CD. I hated it. I’ve thought a lot about what [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 26, 2008
Just posted the below blog over at Leadership Network. Take a look. A few months ago I noticed the book The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam appearing over and over again at Amazon in the section "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought." It was alongside a lot of my favorite books so [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 26, 2008
Formulating an Online Strategy for College Ministry Part 1–Simplicity, Flexibility, Cost and Speed. Part 2–The Purpose of Your Website Part 3–Why You Should Be Blogging Part 4–Using Facebook Effectively Part 5–How Twitter Can Catalyze Your Ministry Part 6–Using Social Network Platforms as Your Central Hub Part 7–Flickr, YouTube and Other Forms of Sharing and Streaming [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 26, 2008
Opening Up Your API An application programming interface (API) is a set of functions, procedures or classes that an operating system, library or service provides to support requests made by computer programs.[1] * Language-dependent APIs are available only in a particular programming language. They utilize the syntax and elements of the programming language to make [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 21, 2008
Just wrote my first blog post over at our book blog for The New Media Frontier. My chapter is New Media Ministry to the Myspace-Facebook Generation: Employing New Media Technologies Effectively In Youth Ministries. And the following is some of the framework I laid out in the chapter. It’s hard to keep up on the [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 21, 2008
Chris Brogan has a great post today, Social Media Events Are Fragmenting. Read the whole thing, especially if you put on a conference, attend them, or are involved with social media. Now, though he is talking about social media events (of which churches and church staff are involved), I was thinking of church conferences as [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 21, 2008
So true. Found this over at ixthus Agitator If you are a writer (professionally, or as a hobby), where do you spend most of your time in the graph?
by Rhett Smith on August 20, 2008
Does that chart scare you? It scared me the first time I saw it. I was given a copy of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. And well, the book and method were hardly stress free for me, while others thrived on it. Many of you out there are disciples of David Allen [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 18, 2008
Last week I was debating on whether or not I should attend the ECHO Conference, mainly because I was pretty exhausted from just moving here. And second, I wasn’t quite sure if I wanted to pay the $329 for the conference. I debated, but ultimately I felt like it would be a great opporunity to [...]
