by Rhett Smith | Nov 17, 2009 | Marriage
[image by soundlessfall] Earlier this summer I was contacted by Irving Bible Church in Las Colinas, TX to write an article on technology for their monthly magazine. After talking with the editor at length we eventually agreed upon a topic that we thought would be of...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 12, 2008 | Leadership
Text Messaging: Best Way to Communicate? I came across the article Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting, this morning via Twitter (HT: Terry Storch & Matt Knisely). Lots of interesting things in this article but a couple stood out to me in...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 23, 2008 | Leadership
HT: Marcus Hackler
by Rhett Smith | Oct 1, 2008 | Leadership
Mark Brown had an interesting post over at Facebook and on his blog, Ministry in the not too distant future. Here is what he says: Seeing this visitor diversity reminded me of the huge shift presently happening in society: moving from relating geographically to...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 1, 2008 | Technology
I’m late to this article, but about a month ago TechCrunch had a great post, Six Degrees of Separation is Now Three. Couple of things stuck out to me in the article: According to the study, the average person is now connected by just three degrees within a...
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 19, 2008 | Technology
On Tuesday afternoon I went to coffee with Chris Capehart, one of the co-founders of ROOV. I told Chris when we met that I wasn’t quite sure what to think of ROOV when I heard about it. 1) One more social networking site seems like one too many right now. 2) I...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 16, 2008 | Leadership
Despite some of the bad press recently regarding Twitter, I still must say that I absolutely love it. Sure there are days when things take way too long to load, or they don’t load at all. But despite all that, Twitter is still the first site that I log onto when...
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 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 | 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 | May 1, 2008 | Technology
Everytime I think I am advanced with the Web 2.0/New Media stuff, I realize I’m not. I usually realize it after reading one of Andrew Jones’ posts. Take yesterday’s post for example. His spring cleaning led to my anxiety. But don’t worry...
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 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....
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...
