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 | Sep 20, 2008 | Technology
I walked into the convention center today and saw this sign sitting at the front of the bookstore next to our book. Very cool, but pretty surreal seeing it next to books by Guy Kawasaki, Tim Ferriss, etc. Especially since I only have a chapter in the book, and...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 26, 2008 | Leadership
Opening Up Your API An application programming interface (API) is a set of functions, procedures or classes that an operating system, library or service provides to support requests made by computer programs.[1] * Language-dependent APIs are available only in a...
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 | Jul 3, 2008 | Leadership
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...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 1, 2008 | Leadership
Social Networks have been one of the greatest things to happen to college ministry. There are many reasons why I have found them to be so helpful, but let’s begin with a video primer, because I know some of you, though familiar with social networks, may wonder...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 26, 2008 | Marriage, Technology
Big Blue Embraces Social Media Adapting these tools, according to IBM, is also important for recruiting. Hotshots coming out of universities are accustomed to working across these new networks—and are likely to look at a company that still relies on the standard...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 10, 2008 | Faith
This short 7 minute video with Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, authors of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies is insightful. I tend to filter social technologies through the lens of church and ministry, and I think they say some key...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 4, 2008 | Leadership
When it comes to Facebook I’m definitely an evangelist, but it wasn’t always that way. I was one of those pastors who was somewhat fearful of online social technology. I was an early adopter in some ways, but when it came to working with college students I...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 3, 2008 | Technology
I know we all have our pet peeves when it comes to social networking sites and technology, so I thought you would enjoy this article, The Top 10 Social Networking Annoyances. Here are the 10 they talk about: MySpace kitsch The worms crawl in LinkedIn is up tight...
by Rhett Smith | May 23, 2008 | Leadership
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...
by Rhett Smith | May 22, 2008 | Leadership
I think it’s important for college ministries to be forumlating a plan, and developing some ideas about how they can strategically use the internet to best serve their ministry. There are a lot of topics that I could cover, and maybe 9 posts is too much, so I...
by Rhett Smith | May 16, 2008 | Leadership
DISCLAIMERS: 1)There are better technical people out there concerning the web. 2) Do as I suggest, not as I do. I’m trying to keep up myself, and our college website reflects almost nothing of what I talk about. That’s how fast things change. 3) There are...
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 24, 2008 | Technology
Just posted at Leadership Network on the new and free e-book, Facebook for Pastors. Please check it out!
by Rhett Smith | Apr 24, 2008 | Technology
kim arnold Says: April 24th, 2008 at 9:36 am Hi, I’m Katherine’s mom. I haven’t really been able to get on the computer until last night,just before going to sleep. I was so blown away that I almost woke James up with my crying. This is beyond my wildest imagination....
by Rhett Smith | Apr 23, 2008 | Technology
I’ve witnessed some amazing examples of how social networking is being used to connect people in prayer. Matt Singley has a great post with just one example happening in our church on Facebook. So check that out. Here is what is happening. A young woman in our...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 22, 2008 | Technology
It seems like Facebook has just really exploded over the last couple of months. When I got on Facebook a couple of years ago it was basically my college students who I was friends with. Which makes sense since it began as a college social network. But recently I have...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 21, 2008 | Technology
In my continued display of Twitter love, and in an attempt to understand its phenomenon more, here is a great article to read. Twitter at SWSX and Power to the People And now one story of my Twitter and how it has worked in some effective ways in ministry. Last week I...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 14, 2008 | Leadership
I’ve been dreaming and thinking a lot about the desire for, and the need to connect those involved in college ministry (i.e. pastors, directors, volunteers, etc.). There are lots of college ministries, and yet there is a certain disconnect among this age and...
