by Rhett Smith on January 7, 2010
One of the questions that comes up a lot in my work with parents of high school and college students is: “How do I help get my kid connected in a college ministry?” or “What are some ways that I can encourage my kid to get involved in a ministry when they are away at [...]
by Rhett Smith on March 5, 2009
Emerging Adulthood I have always seemed to work with a lot of people in the midst of that life transition from college to young adult, or to what is often referred to as emerging adulthood. So because of the extension of adolescence, and the pushing of adulthood and it’s responsibilities to later years (late 20′s [...]
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 9, 2008
What is a wiki? Well, if you don’t know, let’s look at what the most famous wiki, Wikipedia, has to say. A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.[1][2] Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and [...]
by Rhett Smith on July 22, 2008
We define the four-step POST process for creating strategies–people, objectives, strategy, and technology–and reveal why starting with the technologies is a mistake. That is the advice I wish I would have read 6 months ago as I was thinking about creating the college ministry network Collective Muse. I came across it in the must read [...]
by Rhett Smith on July 14, 2008
About a month ago I wrote a post Formulating an Online Strategy for College Ministry: Part 5–How Twitter Can Catalyze Your Ministry. I was really only focusing on one way college students (ministry) can use Twitter. How about 25 ways? Howard Rheingold had a link on his Twitter about the article 25 Twitter Tips for [...]
by Rhett Smith on July 8, 2008
This is actually the form of social media and online sharing that I am the least familiar with. I have only had a Flickr account for about 6 months, and I just upgraded to Flickr Pro. How many videos have I uploaded to YouTube? Only a couple. So this is new territory, but a territory [...]
by Rhett Smith on July 1, 2008
Social Networks have been one of the greatest things to happen to college ministry. There are many reasons why I have found them to be so helpful, but let’s begin with a video primer, because I know some of you, though familiar with social networks, may wonder their exact purpose or how they function. For [...]
by Rhett Smith on June 16, 2008
Despite some of the bad press recently regarding Twitter, I still must say that I absolutely love it. Sure there are days when things take way too long to load, or they don’t load at all. But despite all that, Twitter is still the first site that I log onto when I get on the [...]
by Rhett Smith on June 13, 2008
It was about six months ago when I announced my resignation to the staff and students at Bel Air Presbyterian Church and The Quest, and now the day has finally arrived. I’m sitting at my desk for the last time as the college director and it’s a bittersweet feeling. I’m super excited about the next [...]
