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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 [...]
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by Rhett Smith on November 6, 2008
Last April April 10, 2008: That is the date I wrote my post regarding an interview with conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt and the authors of Millenial Makeover: MySpace, You Tube, and the Future of American Politics. There were tons of points that the authors made that day, but three continue to stick out [...]
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by Rhett Smith on September 15, 2008
In light of much, much discussion about social media and ministry, and in light of many writing on online church community, I was wondering what you think of the post below, taken from Collide Magazine’s blog. I Wouldn’t Hire You If in some bizarro parallel universe I was an executive pastor (or whoever does the [...]
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by Rhett Smith on September 11, 2008
Saw this gem in The Dallas Morning News this morning. It’s a quote by Alexander Muse who I have been following on Twitter. “In Silicon Valley, it’s normal to quit your job and work at a start-up,” he said. But in Dallas, he sees many entrepreneurs “keeping their passion on the side.” Locked into payments [...]
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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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by Rhett Smith on August 21, 2008
Chris Brogan has a great post today, Social Media Events Are Fragmenting. Read the whole thing, especially if you put on a conference, attend them, or are involved with social media. Now, though he is talking about social media events (of which churches and church staff are involved), I was thinking of church conferences as [...]
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by Rhett Smith on August 18, 2008
Last week I was debating on whether or not I should attend the ECHO Conference, mainly because I was pretty exhausted from just moving here. And second, I wasn’t quite sure if I wanted to pay the $329 for the conference. I debated, but ultimately I felt like it would be a great opporunity to [...]
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by Rhett Smith on July 29, 2008
There are many reasons to Twitter which I have chronicled on this blog. But today was a perfect example. When the Southern California earthquake hit today at approximately 11:41 (Twitter) or 11:42 (CNN) Twitter was buzzing like crazy. I had numerous reports from numerous sources of the quake almost before it ended. And when the [...]
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by Rhett Smith on July 22, 2008
We define the four-step POST process for creating strategies–people, objectives, strategy, and technology–and reveal why starting with the technologies is a mistake. That is the advice I wish I would have read 6 months ago as I was thinking about creating the college ministry network Collective Muse. I came across it in the must read [...]
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by Rhett Smith on July 3, 2008
In class my adviser, Ryan Bolger, often tells a story about a pastor of a mega-church in Arizona. One day the pastor, while walking with his son across the campus of the church he built, said, “Son, this is all going to yours someday,” and his son took a step back and responded, “I don’t [...]
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