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 18, 2008 | Intentional Living
I came across this Tweet from Anne Jackson today, and it resonated with me a lot. Learning to say no to good things. It’s always hard, but it’s necessary. I’ve been losing focus lately. I know we all have lots of good things on our plate. We have...
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 | Technology
Wow! Watching history being made with @h_smith. Remarkable. 07:06 PM November 04, 2008 from txt That was my Tweet that I texted from my phone when I found out Barack Obama won the election. That Tweet was delivered from Twitter, to Facebook, automatically updating my...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 5, 2008 | Faith
My prayer on Twitter last night. My prayer is that we would keep the new leaders in our prayers..that we would walk and serve humbly..and that we build up and not tear down
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...
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 | Jul 29, 2008 | Marriage, Technology
There are many reasons to Twitter which I have chronicled on this blog. But today was a perfect example. When the Southern California earthquake hit today at approximately 11:41 (Twitter) or 11:42 (CNN) Twitter was buzzing like crazy. I had numerous reports from...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 28, 2008 | Technology
Before the new i-phone came out I was drooling at any site of, or rumor of it’s impending release. The days leading up to it and on release day I was glued to TechCrunch’s Twitter just so I wouldn’t miss anything. But now I’m pretty glad I...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 14, 2008 | Technology
About a month ago I wrote a post Formulating an Online Strategy for College Ministry: Part 5–How Twitter Can Catalyze Your Ministry. I was really only focusing on one way college students (ministry) can use Twitter. How about 25 ways? Howard Rheingold had a link...
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 | Jun 27, 2008 | Technology
Check out Carlos Whitaker’s story on how Twitter (or the people on Twitter) ministered to him.
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 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 | 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 12, 2008 | Technology
A little over a week ago I was having coffee and talking technology and ministry with Cynthia Ware of The Digital Sanctuary. And she told me a story about some friends of hers and how they had received information from Twitter regarding some events that later became...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 25, 2008 | Technology
Student ‘Twitters’ way out of Egyptian jail. HT: Billy Linnehan MacGyver could have found ‘Twitter’ helpful on a few occassions probably.
