The Church Report has named Jason Gant, our new youth pastor, as one of the top 20 youth ministers in the nation. Jason is awesome. All the pieces were in place before Jason came and now the ministry is exploding under his leadership. Youth pastors are my heroes because they tell kids about Jesus.
While we’re [...]
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Hey, I just now interrupted my work to post a link to an article I just now read about interruptions. How’s that for self-referential?
Are any of you out there actually getting real work done? If so, please tell me how you do it.
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Check out this post by Beta Church in which they quote an article from Fast Company about how people use the web to get opinions on products and services they’re considering for purchase. No doubt people are going to the web for opinions on churches too. Large churches particularly need to be aware [...]
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Dave Winer said some thought-provoking things yesterday about the potential negative consequences of using Feedburner to generate RSS feeds for your blog or podcast. Hmmm … I’m using Feedburner heavily now, including on this blog (see the orange XML button there on the right?).
Along the same line of thought, I insist on registering all domains [...]
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I just now discovered that Jeff Kirby, one of our pastors, was featured in this NPR story on how Christians are responding to The Da Vinci Code. Cool!
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Richard McManus has an interesting post today about Superglu, a service that creates a site out of feeds from multiple sites such as blogs, del.icio.us, and Flickr. Called a “content aggregator,” Superglu is a cool example of the kinds of things Web 2.o enables.
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Brian Bailey: “One of the biggest challenges of web development is balancing the big things and the small things. My goal is to get the main thing right while still being obsessive about the details.”
That philosophy applies to most things we do in the church, not just web sites and applications.
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Ben Gray of Blog Ministry: “Realize that they [students] view email as outdated and almost useless. They only use it to communicate with authority figures. They use Myspace and IM to communicate with friends.”
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