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[image by Adam McLane] When I was called and asked to be a part of the Adventures in Missions YMATH Team, I was told that one of the reasons I was being asked to go was to communicate through my blog, Twitter and Facebook during my time there. In an earlier post Why Haiti? And [...]

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Your Kids Online: What Are You Doing to Them?

by Rhett Smith on November 10, 2009

[image by Zieak] Something I have been torn over for a while is the question of “How much of my daughter’s life do I share online?” With blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and other services it’s more convenient than ever to post photos, share little blurbs about their day, and our reactions as parents to certain [...]

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Great TED video interview with Clay Shirky at the TED@State event. Clay has been super influential in my thinking, especially after I read his book Here Comes Everybody last year. I highly, highly recommend this book. It is a must read for anyone in a leadership position. I wish more church leaders would read it. [...]

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Two Great Therapy Blogs

by Rhett Smith on May 1, 2009

There are some great therapists out there who have a blog which I enjoy reading…and which I think you will too. Luckily for me, the two I’m highlighting today are in the Dallas-Ft.Worth Metroplex, which means I have had the opportunity to connect with them and pick their brain about therapy, as well as the [...]

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McLuhan and Twitter via John Dyer This is a post I have had in the making for a while, but when I read John Dyer’s post Tools for Tech Thinking: McLuhan on Twitter, and well, he unknowingly gave me some inspiration to post some of my thoughts on this issue. Read John’s post for some [...]

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If you have been reading my blog lately you know that I posted a couple of entries related to this post, “Taking Online Community Offline:” What I’m Doing About It And My 2009 Goal. What is my 2009 Goal? “meet & have coffee with every person in the DFW metroplex that I’m connected to on [...]

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New Blog Look…New Blog Focus…A Work In Progress

by Rhett Smith on January 12, 2009

As some of you have been reading on Twitter, I have been in the process of creating a new blog look. In reality, I just watched John Saddington help me create a new blog look. John went above and beyond what I expected…I was looking to just change themes, upgrade my WordPress to 2.7, but [...]

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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 [...]

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Leveraging Technology in Your Community

by Rhett Smith on November 10, 2008

Two of my passions are technology and community–especially, how technology can be used to create and sustain community, and how it can be used to open up communication. So I’m real excited that Cynthia Ware has a great, great post/presentation on Leveraging Technology to Support Community . Please check it out–it is well worth your [...]

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Looking to Connect It is no surprise to any of us that people are looking online to connect with others, and that in the process a certain level of intimate needs are met. Whether it’s a chat group, dating service, blog or class reunion site, people are finding connection. The questions for you…the question for [...]

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