Archive for the 'Connect Our People' Category

Sponsored but hopefully interesting

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

For those intrigued by web 2.0 and “church 2.0″ stuff, I wrote about a report of a new study from the Pew foundation.  It begins here and goes on through the link at the end to the next post. Share and Enjoy:

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10 ways to avoid building community

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Blog entry with link: here. Share and Enjoy:

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A book on chuch blogging

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

See here for the link.  I mention it because I think sometimes a pastor or a church governing board needs a concrete piece of evidence to see how something can help a church website…. Share and Enjoy:

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Cool video on web 2.0…

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

I took a break last week, but now I have posted something new at the Connect Our People blog.  This also represents my first investment in istockphoto.com, an idea that occured to me while reading this. Share and Enjoy:

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WEB 2.0, PR & COMMUNITY BUILDING

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Hey, I’ve been so dragged down with template issues I forgot to mentiong that I interacted with some blogs of web 2.0 and church issues here. Share and Enjoy:

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Think of the possibilities! Sermon creation and web 2.0

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

This site utterly amazed me.  I wrote down some thoughts here.  (Comments closed here but are available there.) Share and Enjoy:

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On Highrise

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

If you’re in sales, you might want to know about what I just posted at the Connect Our People blog. Share and Enjoy:

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Tracking whom you have seen lately

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Another post on the Connect Our People blog. Also, it now has a Technorati profile linked and an rss feed. Share and Enjoy:

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Distractions and reminders

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

New post up at my other blog here. Share and Enjoy:

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A new blog for certain topics…

Monday, February 26th, 2007

The Connect Our People blog is up and running. The first entry is more about paper than cyberspace. In any case, there will be no more blogs in this category, except perhaps to let you know I have written something new over there. Share and Enjoy:

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Pontifical Council for Social Communications?

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Wow! I haven’t had a chance to look at this report yet, but I have to say it looks like the Vatican has its act together. The Church’s interest in the Internet is a particular expression of her longstanding interest in the media of social communication. Seeing the media as an outcome of the historical [...]

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More Church/web 2.0 discussion

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Since I’ve been linking distinctively Christian social networking sites perhaps it would be good to show you a few discussions. The first I’ll mention is a blog entry from the interestingly-named site, “Church Marketing Sucks.” I really liked this entry because I thought I was the victim of confusion. I couldn’t figure out is web [...]

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Amid the herd

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Web 2.0 is growing rapidly in cyberspace. I knew that, but I hadn’t realized how much it had done so for Christians until I found Joe’s blog through the church technology review blog. Joe has kept an eye on things (I’d like to know how) and has updated his list since it was reprinted by [...]

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Watching passionate communities evolve.

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

This entry by GTD wizard Merlin Mann sort of surprised me. I had never thought about Merlin as someone who thought much about church services. But Merlin doesn’t see it as that much of a stretch and I think he is right: As I’m sure Brian realized at some point, a lot of the advice [...]

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Virtual Church?

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Wow! I don’t know how I managed to do it, but I managed to miss the tenth birthday of the First International Church of the Web by just over a week. What a shame. I think this “church” represents probably most pastors’ worst fears about how the web is used in a religious way. Perhaps [...]

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Are mobile phones anti-community?

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

I recently found this entry on Lauren Winner’s blog complaining about the number of people using mobile phones on a college campus. The article, which she refers to as a “screed,” makes some great points, but I still think her starting illustration, the campus and the proliferation of mobile phones, actually goes in the opposite [...]

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Application Service Providers are perceived as valuable

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

This story is interesting, at least to me. IBM recently paid a hefty amount of money ($187 million) for a relatively unknown company, Corio. Apparently, IBM sees a lot of potential profit in the services Corio offers and wants to make sure that they get in on it. Corio is an application service provider, the [...]

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Another reason why the internet should be used for congregational life.

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

I wrote a few days ago that I thought Christian outreach on the web was already making good progress. In my opinion, as I said, there is still a lot to be done in using the internet to build up congregations and associations. I want to list another reason why I think so. As I [...]

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ChurchWeb 2.0: Is it here yet?

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

I just discovered there is some such thing as “The Pew Internet and American Life” project. I’m not sure what it is yet, but I will probably find out about it soon and report back if it is interesting. Stay tuned. The project got mentioned in this article, “The Church-Internet (dis)connection.” It was written all [...]

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