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 | Mar 18, 2009 | Technology
LifeChurch.tv Second Life Campus Tour Douglas: Is the virtual church a real/genuine church? Andrew Absolutely not. But neither is a physical gathering in a church building on a Sunday morning. The body of Christ is a spiritual aggregation of believers whose names are...
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 | Technology
Twitter is one of those things that either you get or you don’t. If you don’t get it, then you probably won’t miss it that much since it was never a part of your daily life. But if you get Twitter, and you have used it, then you understand just how...
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 11, 2008 | Leadership
Chris Brogan has a fascinating post, Communications in a Post Media World. He begins by saying, When Google is the front door, the side door, the hidden key under the mat, the cash register, the finder of everything we ever lost, and everything we wished we’d lost,...
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 23, 2008 | Leadership
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by Rhett Smith | Sep 26, 2008 | Leadership
I wish I could have been there this morning with the crew at Church Tech Camp, but since I couldn’t, it was great to watch it live and participate. Props to Tony Steward for putting on the “unconference.” And props to #churchtechcamp making the...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 25, 2008 | Faith
I said something earlier this week about my appreciation for GodblogCon and their attempt to be more “missionally minded.” I know that when they brought the conference to Vegas from the campus of Biola not everyone was happy about it. In fact, I think many...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 22, 2008 | Leadership
This last weekend was a great time at Blogworld and New Media Expo, and GodblogCon. It was my fourth year at GodblogCon, and my 2nd time at Blogworld. I have some thoughts about the conference and I will be posting them this week, but just a sampler of some things...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 15, 2008 | Leadership
In light of much, much discussion about social media and ministry, and in light of many writing on online church community, I was wondering what you think of the post below, taken from Collide Magazine’s blog. I Wouldn’t Hire You If in some bizarro...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 11, 2008 | Leadership
Saw this gem in The Dallas Morning News this morning. It’s a quote by Alexander Muse who I have been following on Twitter. “In Silicon Valley, it’s normal to quit your job and work at a start-up,” he said. But in Dallas, he sees many...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 8, 2008 | Leadership
If you are thinking about having more of an online web presence for you church, but aren’t sure how to dive in…or even if you have a great web presence and are in need of some ideas, check out below. First, Tony Steward has a great post How to Launch an...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 26, 2008 | Leadership
Formulating an Online Strategy for College Ministry Part 1–Simplicity, Flexibility, Cost and Speed. Part 2–The Purpose of Your Website Part 3–Why You Should Be Blogging Part 4–Using Facebook Effectively Part 5–How Twitter Can Catalyze...
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 | 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 18, 2008 | Leadership
Last week I was debating on whether or not I should attend the ECHO Conference, mainly because I was pretty exhausted from just moving here. And second, I wasn’t quite sure if I wanted to pay the $329 for the conference. I debated, but ultimately I felt like it...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 14, 2008 | Technology
I will be heading over to ECHO Conference (if not tonight, at least tomorrow and Saturday) at Watermark, and I’m super excited to hang out with Cynthia Ware, Scott McClellan, Tony Steward, Greg Atkinson and others. I’m sure my head will be exploding with...
