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Formulating an Online Strategy for College Ministry: Part 8–Ministry Collaboration Using Wikis

by Rhett Smith on August 9, 2008

What is a wiki? Well, if you don’t know, let’s look at what the most famous wiki, Wikipedia, has to say. A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.[1][2] Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and [...]

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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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Romans 8 Movement: Harnessing the Self-Organizing Creative Power of Church Community

by Rhett Smith on May 21, 2008

Back on Wednesday, April 23 I wrote a post called This Isn’t Your Parent’s Prayer Chain. The post was about a young woman in our church, Katherine Wolf, who was one of the volunteer leaders in the Young Marrieds ministry, and who went through an unbelievable 13 hour emergency brain surgery at UCLA. There are [...]

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Collaborative Resources

by Rhett Smith on April 28, 2008

I think most of you know by now, I have become a huge fan of the New Media and Web 2.0. But there is one aspect of it that I am most excited about: collaboration. With immediate access to amazing and simple tools we are able to collaborate more rapidly and effectively with one another [...]

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Wikinomics is blowing my mind…

by Rhett Smith on March 17, 2008

One of the things on my mind most recently is the concept of collaboration, and how the Church can better harness this synergy within its congregations and in its communities. But my biggest fear is that many churches will continue to maintain hierarchical structures out of fear of losing power and will be unable to [...]

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