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by Rhett Smith on November 17, 2009
[image by soundlessfall] Earlier this summer I was contacted by Irving Bible Church in Las Colinas, TX to write an article on technology for their monthly magazine. After talking with the editor at length we eventually agreed upon a topic that we thought would be of importance to the readers — We came up with [...]
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by Rhett Smith on December 12, 2008
Text Messaging: Best Way to Communicate? I came across the article Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting, this morning via Twitter (HT: Terry Storch & Matt Knisely). Lots of interesting things in this article but a couple stood out to me in particular. The article begins: Today’s high-school and college students got their [...]
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by Rhett Smith on October 23, 2008
HT: Marcus Hackler
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by Rhett Smith on October 1, 2008
Mark Brown had an interesting post over at Facebook and on his blog, Ministry in the not too distant future. Here is what he says: Seeing this visitor diversity reminded me of the huge shift presently happening in society: moving from relating geographically to relating through networks or interests. This is being driven by the [...]
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by Rhett Smith on October 1, 2008
I’m late to this article, but about a month ago TechCrunch had a great post, Six Degrees of Separation is Now Three. Couple of things stuck out to me in the article: According to the study, the average person is now connected by just three degrees within a shared “interest” or social group instead of [...]
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by Rhett Smith on June 26, 2008
Big Blue Embraces Social Media Adapting these tools, according to IBM, is also important for recruiting. Hotshots coming out of universities are accustomed to working across these new networks—and are likely to look at a company that still relies on the standard ’90s fare of e-mail and the phone as slow and backward. I still [...]
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by Rhett Smith on June 19, 2008
On Tuesday afternoon I went to coffee with Chris Capehart, one of the co-founders of ROOV. I told Chris when we met that I wasn’t quite sure what to think of ROOV when I heard about it. 1) One more social networking site seems like one too many right now. 2) I don’t like Christians [...]
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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 [...]
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by Rhett Smith on June 4, 2008
When it comes to Facebook I’m definitely an evangelist, but it wasn’t always that way. I was one of those pastors who was somewhat fearful of online social technology. I was an early adopter in some ways, but when it came to working with college students I was definitely a late adopter to MySpace (my [...]
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by Rhett Smith on June 3, 2008
I know we all have our pet peeves when it comes to social networking sites and technology, so I thought you would enjoy this article, The Top 10 Social Networking Annoyances. Here are the 10 they talk about: MySpace kitsch The worms crawl in LinkedIn is up tight Mobile social networking still kinda weak Ning: [...]
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