by Rhett Smith on July 3, 2009
So I wrote this post back in November of 2008, Community Organizer+Grasp of Web 2.0/Social Media=President Elect Obama. And then I saw this on July 1, 2009. And then this tweet by Tony Steward on July 2, 2009. #churchonline political campaigns found leveraging online community wildly effective in finding and making “disciples” = Obama is [...]
by Rhett Smith on April 24, 2009
This is a guest post by John Sampson. John is a Residence Director who supports discipleship and missional work for Oasis Church in Pasadena, CA. He blogs on church mission, leadership, and life at Jon Sampson. Jon also Twitters at @jonsampson. Rhett’s recent post on bivocational ministry caught my attention. I guess it makes sense. [...]
by Rhett Smith on March 31, 2009
Asking whether or not online community is real community is really not even a good question, or the right question in my opinion, but it’s one that everyone seems to be asking. Lots of people have already answered that question but many are continuing to wrestle with it. I think online community is real community, [...]
by Rhett Smith on February 27, 2009
What Are You Passionate About? I like all the creative things that different bloggers are doing online to help us connect and get to know others in the online community. I love Rick Smith’s “double popped” interviews and John Saddington’s chats or Friday 5′s, as well as the other creative things bloggers are doing. One [...]
by Rhett Smith on January 28, 2009
Stay tuned for the second part of my interview with Anne Jackson tomorrow.
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 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 [...]
by Rhett Smith on November 17, 2008
Great guest post by Leo Wurschmidt over at Church Crunch today, Meatspace Monday 4–CLT WordCamp–Taking the Online Community Offline. I love the phrase, “taking the online community offline.” For as big a fan as I am of social media, online community, online communication, etc….. Here is what I think is social media/new media/technology (whatever you [...]
by Rhett Smith on October 22, 2008
Is Blogging Dead Yesterday afternoon I read two Tweets from Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst at Forrester. They were as follows: Wired suggests blogs are old hat –call me old fashioned! followed by, What’s interesting is that the Wired opinion doesn’t have a single piece of data in it’s article –go read Sifry’s state of blogosphere. [...]
