Here’s the final installment of my interview with Chuck Russell about his background and his decision to come to Resurrection. See part 2 here.
Clif: What made you decide to move from the national, general agency level down to the local church level?
Chuck: My heart has always been with the local church. Just ask my colleagues [...]
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Here’s more of my interview with Chuck Russell about his background and his decision to come to Resurrection. See part 1 here.
Clif: What have you learned from your time on staff at UMCOM? What do you feel are your greatest accomplishments there?
Chuck: My first real learning is that there are people at General Agencies that [...]
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Follow up on what Chuck just said, Church Marketing Sucks hits us where it hurts!
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I’m really excited today to get to announce to our Appian Way readers that Chuck Russell, our fellow Appian Way blogger, is coming to work on staff with Brian, Leo, and me at Church of the Resurrection. In his job as Internet Resource Consultant for United Methodist Communications (UMCOM), Chuck has been part of our [...]
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In a comment on Brian’s post, I said I would post separately on my conversation with my mom yesterday regarding George Barna’s new book, Revolution.
First, let me get my book-review criticism out of the way so I can get to the real substance of what Barna is saying. In my view the book has two [...]
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It seems many bloggers are commenting on the recent story in Time Magazine about teens and how they use multiple media at one time. For example, Andrew Careaga wonders, “Are kids too connected? Are we?” And Kathy Sierra says all this multitasking degrades performance at every level.
I’ve previously mentioned that I’ve noticed this [...]
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Shane Raynor at Wesley Blog republished on Wesley Daily my most recent post about MySpace, “If you’re not on MySpace, you don’t exist.” Gavin Richardson then added a lengthy comment at Wesley Daily as well as a post on his own blog.
I’d like to comment on something Gavin said:
“our churches” don’t get invovled in this [...]
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Here are a couple of search engines specifically for podcasts, MP3s, and videos:
http://www.podscope.com/
http://www.blinkx.tv/
A few quick searches suggested to me that they aren’t yet finding a lot of what’s out there, including sermon feeds from Resurrection and Living Water. When will this multi-media search start to work well enough to be useful?
Hat tip: Web [...]
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Cathy Sierra posts here regarding MySpace and why her daughter finds it so compelling relative to other social networking sites. She thinks it’s because MySpace is continually updated with new functionality through rapid software development and lightning release cycles.
However, something she quotes her daughter as saying suggests a different reason: “If you’re not on myspace, [...]
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From my wife, Laura:
I received word that my best friend, Kay Roberts, passed from this life to the next at 1:30 this morning. The breast cancer she had battled for two years had invaded other parts of her body, and her last days were spent at home, surrounded by loved ones. I have [...]
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I went to the Microsoft CRM 3.0 launch event here in Kansas City on Thursday morning. I wanted to see what had been done with the product since I last saw it demoed (version 1.0 in Sept. 2003). I was pretty sure before I went that it wouldn’t work as a church management system (ChMS), [...]
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My wife’s best friend is Kay. Kay is 44 years old with three kids and an active faith. She has recurrent breast cancer that is now spreading all over her body. Sadly, it appears that the end is near, at least from a medical standpoint.
Laura (my wife, who is a church-planting pastor) visited Kay yesterday [...]
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Robert Scoble posts today about websites that are “ugly” but still commercially successful. He calls this “anti-marketing design.”
But, go deeper: we’re sick of committee-driven marketing. We don’t believe it. If we ever did. We’ve built a bulls**t filter that filters out well-designed things in a commercial context. We trust things more when they look like [...]
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In my previous post I expressed the concern of my wife and I about the worship service we attend. A service that has seen little growth over a year and is not nearly it’s former self. Most of the younger crowd is missing. I’d say we met with just about everyone we should meet with, [...]
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Mark Batterson: “For what it’s worth, blogs are postmodern wells. I’m psyched about our blog groups that have launched this semester. Digital discipleship!” By “well” of course he means a place in the center of town where people gather and talk.
I’m hoping to learn something from this. If they are able to blaze [...]
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