Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the ECHO Conference in Dallas for the first time, and for my topic I decided to address an issue that I have been wrestling with for quite some time -- Not Losing Yourself in Social Media. It's a topic that has been near and...
Compassion on the Decline Among College Students A new study finds that today’s college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and ’90s. University of Michigan researchers analyzed data on empathy collected from almost 14,000 college students...
[image by sass_face] Let me start this post with an example. I'm the type of person who if I'm going to try and be disciplined about not eating junk food, then it's much better I tell my wife if we just don't buy and have junk food in the house, rather than me trying...
You ever read a really great book? So great that you just want to underline all of it? That's how I felt about this article that I came across some time last week, Obsessed with smartphones, oblivious to the here and now -- and to be honest...it freaked me out a bit....
[image by Adam McLane] When I was called and asked to be a part of the Adventures in Missions YMATH Team, I was told that one of the reasons I was being asked to go was to communicate through my blog, Twitter and Facebook during my time there. In an earlier post Why...
[image by Hawthorne Ave] Can social media use be a hindrance to effectively transitioning to next stages of life? I don't know, but it's something I'm exploring. This question was rooted in a conversation I was having a few weeks back with Lars Rood and the parents of...
Tony Steward and I are super excited to be facilitating a conversation at the Cultivate Conference this upcoming Tuesday in Chicago. Ever since we were asked to facilitate jointly at the conference we have been discussing what would be the most beneficial conversation...
Back in August I sent out a tweet about cancer in our family and how my wife and I created a team (The Shade Runners) for the Susan G. Komen, Race for the Cure. And later that day I received an @ reply on Twitter from Lori Barber that said the following: @rhetter I...
I've been really impressed with Clover and the beautiful websites they have developed, and especially the intuitive ease with which they are designed...especially for those of us who don't know how to program or code. I recently sat down to interview them and to get a...
[image by David R. Carroll] Do you remember what life was like before your cell phone, or before you had an internet connection in your house? It seems like such a long time ago. We even wonder at times how we could have lived life without them. The scary thing is...
