by Rhett Smith on December 24, 2008
by Rhett Smith on December 24, 2008
I have really been enjoying reading John Dyer’s blog, Don’t Eat the Fruit. John is currently in the middle of a 5 post series “exploring Neil Postman’s lecture ‘Five Things You Need to Know about Technological Change’ as it relates to church life and spirituality.” Here are 3 of the 5 posts he has written [...]
by Rhett Smith on December 21, 2008
ChurchTechCamp:.Dallas Website ChurchTechCamp:.Dallas Registration The Twitter and Blog tag for this event is: #ctcdallas
by Rhett Smith on December 19, 2008
#churchtechcamp, which was pretty much hinted at, discussed and organized within about 5 minutes on Twitter a few weeks ago, is finally coming to fruition. And instead of Los Angeles, this time it’s going to be in Dallas. When: Thursday, January 8 Where: Irving Bible Church Time: 9am-5pm Cost: $0…yes, I said $0. Lunch: Will [...]
by Rhett Smith on December 17, 2008
The Question? It seems like people have been asking the question: Can you have community online? Or at least some form of this question is asked. Usually adjectives are thrown in front of the word community such as “true” or “real” or “authentic” or “quality”….and so you get the point. I think what people are [...]
by Rhett Smith on December 15, 2008
Connect, Network and Collaborate are just three of the things that I hope to do at the Innovation3 Gathering in Dallas, TX on January 27-28. The event is put on by Leadership Network and is host to a plethora of speakers in just two days. Leadership Network says this about the conference: Innovation3 IS NOT [...]
by Rhett Smith on December 12, 2008
Text Messaging: Best Way to Communicate? I came across the article Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting, this morning via Twitter (HT: Terry Storch & Matt Knisely). Lots of interesting things in this article but a couple stood out to me in particular. The article begins: Today’s high-school and college students got their [...]
by Rhett Smith on December 12, 2008
Will Smith was on Good Morning Texas talking about his new movie Seven Pounds yesterday and he began to talk about his value on the idea of “story” as in relation to his movie choices. I then sent out this Tweet: listening to Will Smith talk about the importance of “story.” he also has a [...]
by Rhett Smith on December 8, 2008
There is a lot I want to blog about this issue, but I am going to roll out a series of posts on this topic in the near future (probably in January 2009)….but I think there are some amazing counseling services/help lines, etc. that are beginning to pop-up online, and I only think they are [...]
by Rhett Smith on December 8, 2008
Social Media as a Tool If you look up social media on Wikipedia this is the first sentence you read. Social media are primarily Internet- and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings. So inherent in the discussion (at least here and I assume many other places) is the idea that when [...]
