by Rhett Smith | Feb 24, 2010 | Technology
[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...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 25, 2009 | Technology
[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...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 3, 2009 | Technology
The Running of the Salmon When I was in high school my family and I went on an Alaskan cruise, and along the way we stopped at one of the islands to get a tour of where the salmon swim upstream during the spawning season. I don’t remember a lot of details about...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 2, 2009 | Technology
Morse Code-Leno – The funniest movie is here. Find it I was watching this video (which is a few years old), and a couple of thoughts came to mind: I was thinking about how quickly we are to announce the arrival of the latest, and the best new technology. Whether...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 29, 2009 | Technology
[image by Tom Purves] One of the things about Twitter that I have not quite been able to explain that well is why I think the little details in life that one tweets about (eating cereal, going for a walk, crying after that movie, hanging with friends, etc.) are so...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 26, 2009 | Marriage, Technology
This is Post 2/100 in my 100 posts in 100 days series. [image by tboard] Yesterday I asked the question, Is There a Therapy Stigma? If you haven’t had a chance to answer that question…please take a moment to do so, as I’m interested in your opinion...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 24, 2009 | Marriage
If you have been visiting this blog I really appreciate it. But you may also know that I haven’t been spending much time blogging on this site as I’ve been pretty slow to get into gear. But I have been spending some time reflecting, trying to figure out...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 10, 2009 | Intentional Living
[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...
by Rhett Smith | Jan 29, 2009 | Leadership
This is Part 2 of my interview with author and blogger Anne Jackson. Check out Part 1 here. From your own perspective, what is at the root behind the stigma of counseling and therapy in the Church? What would you say to Christians who think that we should not take...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 20, 2008 | Leadership
Church Crunch has definitely become one of my favorite sites. I check it out several times a day and am always learning, being challenged and growing in many areas, but especially their thoughts on technology and the Church. John Saddington (you must start reading his...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 22, 2008 | Technology
Is Blogging Dead Yesterday afternoon I read two Tweets from Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst at Forrester. They were as follows: Wired suggests blogs are old hat –call me old fashioned! followed by, What’s interesting is that the Wired opinion doesn’t...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 13, 2008 | Intentional Living
Social Media Boundaries A few weeks ago I started talking about boundaries, but as if you haven’t noticed already, I sometimes have a hard time staying on one topic too long. So let me circle back to the idea of boundaries around our social media. Otherwise,...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 21, 2008 | Technology
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...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 21, 2008 | Technology
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...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 13, 2008 | Technology
I had the privilege yesterday of interviewing Andrew Jones along with Andrew Jackson, Cynthia Ware, Matthew Anderson and Marcus Goodyear. Jones has some great insight into the history of blogging (he’s been blogging since 1997/1998) and ministry. Some really...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 9, 2008 | Leadership
Scot McKnight has a great post, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, which is a take on the classic book of the same name by Helmut Thielicke. The premise of the post: Bloggers pastors or students or theologians, especially young ones, need to listen to the wisdom...
by Rhett Smith | May 31, 2008 | Leadership
Of all the topics I’m going to address in this series, this seems to be the no-brainer to me. I started blogging about 4 years ago at the encouragement of one of my students at the time, Jared Kleier. He set up a blog for me on our college website and away we...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 28, 2008 | Technology
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...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 21, 2008 | Faith
As a college director I get to be a part of many amazing student’s lives. And one of the things I enjoy the most is sitting down with them over a cup of coffee and talking about life, God, theology, their passions, etc., etc. Those of you working with college...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 18, 2008 | Technology
Obviously we have reached the tipping point, or maybe we are now beyond it. But as others are saying more eloquently than me, the New Media is not a trend, and it’s here to stay. The New Media, Web 2.0, Social Networking, etc…. Check out Collective Muse....