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 | Jun 26, 2009 | Leadership
[image by jakeoneil] Last week I posted Exploring the Online Characteristics of Generation F/Y, and Their Implications-Part 1. This series was born out of my fascination with the great article, The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500. And for the first post...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 18, 2009 | Leadership
This world of social networking is a world of little to no hierarchy, and the leadership that exists is one that is centered within the groups in the online communities, and encourages a leadership style that is horizontally structured, striving to give equal voice to...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 16, 2009 | Technology
Great TED video interview with Clay Shirky at the TED@State event. Clay has been super influential in my thinking, especially after I read his book Here Comes Everybody last year. I highly, highly recommend this book. It is a must read for anyone in a leadership...
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 | Apr 24, 2009 | Marriage, Technology
[image by Simon Doggett] I thought this was an interesting piece out of USA Today, especially when I’m beginning a series of blog posts on the issue of boundaries in a variety of contexts. Read The Popularity of Twitter has Some Relationships in a Twist, and...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 21, 2009 | Marriage, Technology
The other day I received an @reply from Mikey Ames on Twitter with the message, @rhetter SM mental health, Vancouver- http://tinyurl.com/dhd2y4 When I opened up the link I read this, Mental Health Camp – a Conference about Mental Health and Social Media with the...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 19, 2009 | Marriage, Technology
For many of you that know me, and those of you that don’t, launching my own therapy private practice has been something that I have been wanting to do for quite a while. After a lot of years of work in university life, church ministry, pastoral care and...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 16, 2009 | Technology
it’s official..i have disabled Twitter from my Facebook group..2 very different groups..I wrestled with this for months, but now i did it–12:19 AM Feb 12th from web In the grand scheme of life this decision is about as unimportant as the come…really,...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 10, 2009 | Marriage
McLuhan and Twitter via John Dyer This is a post I have had in the making for a while, but when I read John Dyer’s post Tools for Tech Thinking: McLuhan on Twitter, and well, he unknowingly gave me some inspiration to post some of my thoughts on this issue. Read...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 17, 2008 | Technology
The Question? It seems like people have been asking the question: Can you have community online? Or at least some form of this question is asked. Usually adjectives are thrown in front of the word community such as “true” or “real” or...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 8, 2008 | Technology
Social Media as a Tool If you look up social media on Wikipedia this is the first sentence you read. Social media are primarily Internet- and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings. So inherent in the discussion (at least here and...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 1, 2008 | Intentional Living
The video has me thinking about the future of vocation. Will your job exist in the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years? My dad and I have the conversation about how we will probably “cobble together” a number of vocations, rather than just having that one job. And I...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 17, 2008 | Intentional Living
Great guest post by Leo Wurschmidt over at Church Crunch today, Meatspace Monday 4–CLT WordCamp–Taking the Online Community Offline. I love the phrase, “taking the online community offline.” For as big a fan as I am of social media, online...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 10, 2008 | Technology
Two of my passions are technology and community–especially, how technology can be used to create and sustain community, and how it can be used to open up communication. So I’m real excited that Cynthia Ware has a great, great post/presentation on...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 6, 2008 | Leadership
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...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 6, 2008 | Leadership
The Context This is Part 2 in the continued series, Becoming a Heretic on Church Ministry. Last week we looked at Becoming a Heretic on Church Ministry: The Sermon. When we think about what a heretic on/in Church ministry is, I am taking a cue from Seth Godin’s...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 3, 2008 | Marriage
Looking to Connect It is no surprise to any of us that people are looking online to connect with others, and that in the process a certain level of intimate needs are met. Whether it’s a chat group, dating service, blog or class reunion site, people are finding...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 28, 2008 | Technology
Curbing My Addiction About two weeks ago I wrote the post, You Might Be A Social Media Addict If……Setting Boundaries On Social Media. In that post I proposed the 10 things that I was going to try to help curb my addiction. Two weeks is hardly an...
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...
