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You Must Protect Your Inner Fire if You Live Online

by Rhett Smith on June 10, 2009

[image by Capture Queen] I have been thinking a lot…a lot about Anne Jackson’s recent decision, Saying Goodbye to Facebook. And then yesterday she followed it up with an article at Purpose Driven, Why I Kissed Facebook Goodbye. Something that Anne said in the article really stuck out to me: The ultimate question, for the [...]

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Exploring Virtual/Online Church

by Rhett Smith on March 18, 2009

LifeChurch.tv Second Life Campus Tour Douglas: Is the virtual church a real/genuine church? Andrew Absolutely not. But neither is a physical gathering in a church building on a Sunday morning. The body of Christ is a spiritual aggregation of believers whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. That body finds itself aggregated, [...]

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Social Media: If It’s Only Tools, Then to What End?

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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Apologies John Saddington over at Church Crunch had a great post, Digital Apologies and Blog Confessionals. John’s post was in reference to Digg co-founder Kevin Rose’s apology about comments on his uber-popular video podcast Diggnation. John says: Blogging, for most part and for many is a one-way street. It’s a digital megaphone to the public. [...]

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Twitter is one of those things that either you get or you don’t. If you don’t get it, then you probably won’t miss it that much since it was never a part of your daily life. But if you get Twitter, and you have used it, then you understand just how powerful a tool it [...]

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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 [...]

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Chris Brogan has a fascinating post, Communications in a Post Media World. He begins by saying, When Google is the front door, the side door, the hidden key under the mat, the cash register, the finder of everything we ever lost, and everything we wished we’d lost, what comes next? When everyone is a newspaper, [...]

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My Social Media Addiction Update!

by Rhett Smith on October 28, 2008

Curbing My Addiction About two weeks ago I wrote the post, You Might Be A Social Media Addict If……Setting Boundaries On Social Media. In that post I proposed the 10 things that I was going to try to help curb my addiction. Two weeks is hardly an experiment, but I figured if I can’t be [...]

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Where Do You Fall on the Graph?

by Rhett Smith on October 23, 2008

HT: Marcus Hackler

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I wish I could have been there this morning with the crew at Church Tech Camp, but since I couldn’t, it was great to watch it live and participate. Props to Tony Steward for putting on the “unconference.” And props to #churchtechcamp making the Twitter trends today and making it on the Twitter blog. Check [...]

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