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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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[image by Tom Purves] One of the things about Twitter that I have not quite been able to explain that well is why I think the little details in life that one tweets about (eating cereal, going for a walk, crying after that movie, hanging with friends, etc.) are so fascinating. I can’t tell you [...]

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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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The Context This is Part 2 in the continued series, Becoming a Heretic on Church Ministry. Last week we looked at Becoming a Heretic on Church Ministry: The Sermon. When we think about what a heretic on/in Church ministry is, I am taking a cue from Seth Godin’s book Tribes: We Need You To Lead [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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Responses to a Commenter

by Rhett Smith on May 23, 2008

Ryan at Tilling the Soil asked me a couple of good questions related to my post below, so I want to give them proper attention in a post, and not just leave a comment for him. I had the chance to talk with Ryan by phone last week and I enjoyed our conversation, and I’m [...]

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I think it’s important for college ministries to be forumlating a plan, and developing some ideas about how they can strategically use the internet to best serve their ministry. There are a lot of topics that I could cover, and maybe 9 posts is too much, so I will try and keep them shorter than [...]

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DISCLAIMERS: 1)There are better technical people out there concerning the web. 2) Do as I suggest, not as I do. I’m trying to keep up myself, and our college website reflects almost nothing of what I talk about. That’s how fast things change. 3) There are a lot of college ministries out there, and there [...]

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