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by Rhett Smith on November 12, 2009
[image by Jeremy] More and more recently I have been afforded some great opportunities to work with parents around the issue of their kids and technology. There have been some great conversations taking place in the context of therapy, church ministry and some conferences and workshops I have been fortunate enough to play a role [...]
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by Rhett Smith on June 18, 2009
This world of social networking is a world of little to no hierarchy, and the leadership that exists is one that is centered within the groups in the online communities, and encourages a leadership style that is horizontally structured, striving to give equal voice to everyone involved. In terms of its impact to the world [...]
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by Rhett Smith on April 24, 2009
[image by Simon Doggett] I thought this was an interesting piece out of USA Today, especially when I’m beginning a series of blog posts on the issue of boundaries in a variety of contexts. Read The Popularity of Twitter has Some Relationships in a Twist, and tell me what you think. Here is a choice [...]
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by Rhett Smith on February 10, 2009
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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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 [...]
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by Rhett Smith on December 1, 2008
The video has me thinking about the future of vocation. Will your job exist in the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years? My dad and I have the conversation about how we will probably “cobble together” a number of vocations, rather than just having that one job. And I think those “cobbling together” of vocations [...]
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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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by Rhett Smith on November 6, 2008
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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by Rhett Smith on September 20, 2008
I walked into the convention center today and saw this sign sitting at the front of the bookstore next to our book. Very cool, but pretty surreal seeing it next to books by Guy Kawasaki, Tim Ferriss, etc. Especially since I only have a chapter in the book, and it’s not a whole book I [...]
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by Rhett Smith on August 21, 2008
Just wrote my first blog post over at our book blog for The New Media Frontier. My chapter is New Media Ministry to the Myspace-Facebook Generation: Employing New Media Technologies Effectively In Youth Ministries. And the following is some of the framework I laid out in the chapter. It’s hard to keep up on the [...]
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