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In the spirit of Jeff Foxworthy, I was just thinking up some ideas for my session at GodblogCon in a few weeks when I teach on the missional church in the internet age. You might be a faith blogger, I was thinking . . IF . . . - if you sit in the back row of the church because thats where the wifi signal is the strongest - if your sermons allow both comments and trackbacks - if you tithe through a widget - if you think committing the original sin is getting tempted by the latest Apple - if you pray that God will allow you to upload your photo to the Lamb's Book of Life - if your prayers are less
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You might be a faith blogger if…
http://www.casadeblundell.com/jonathan/misc/you-might-be-a-f...Catching up on some RSS feeds and had to share this from Tall Skinny Kiwi :: You might be a faith blogger if… if you sit in the back row of the church because thats where the wifi signal is the strongest if your sermons allow both comments and trackbacks if you tithe through a widget if you think committing the original sin is getting tempted by the latest Apple if you pray that God will allow you to upload your photo to the Lamb’s Book of Life if your prayers are less than 140 characters because thats all Twitter allows if you ever wonder why the domain of Satan doesn’t have its own URL if you think Jesus’ command to Peter to “Feed my sheep” was to allow RSS syndication if you think streams in the desert is a blog from Las Vegas . . . then you just might be a faith-blogger!
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Musings About Blog World Expo '08
http://bloombergmarketing.blogs.com/bloomberg_marketing/2008...Networking on iPhones and Blackberries. Networking in-person. Tweets on screens. Tweets on cells. Parties and People. An industry finding its way. New companies. New technology. New bloggers. Conference Word: Vulnerability Last week I joined social media friends and colleagues at the second Blog World Expo conference. Lots of thoughts swirling through my mind. One is that this industry continues to grow. Susan Getgood reminds us in her BWE post that challenges often accompany. My hopes are that the newly formed International Blogger and New Media Association (I'm on the board) will bring direction, cohesion, credibility .. and ease a bit of the pain that Susan identified. Friday night Elisa Camahort, BlogHer, and Jen Openshaw, WeSeed, coordinated a girlfriends in Las Vegas dinner. What a great way to kick of the weekend. And what a treat to be among amazing women who are pioneers in social media. Girlfriend, I've the perfect excuse for you to visit Hawaii -- Hawaii Podcamp .. the diva making this one happen is Roxanne Darling, Beach Walks With Rox. Last year some of my greatest learnings came from sessions outside of my comfort zone - military and sports blogging. This year I sat in on a God Blog session and listened intently to the Andrew Jones, Tall Skinny Kiwi, tell his story about faith blogs. He begin with a light hearted joke .. You might be a faith blogger if .. My favorite .. You're a faith blogger if your prayers are 140 characters or less because that's all Twitter allows. My big take away from Andrew's talk (slides) was ~ A blog should not be a well. It should be a spring. ~ Although Andrew put it into a religious context, his concept makes perfect sense to me not only for blogs but for social media in general. Think about it .. a well contains stagnant waters. Stagnation occurs when there is no new flow of water. Blogs, social networks, wikis and all the other tools/tactics allow for and encourage fresh water or new ideas to flow. Sidebar: I often say that the blogopshere/social media is comprised of many, many villages. There is the business blog village where Diva Marketing resides and then the mommy blog, golf blog, healthcare blog, beauty blog, race horse blog "villages" and more. The God blog/faith blog village is one of the most active. Skip over to the interview I did with Lead Pastor of the National Community Church - David Mark Batterson - for some insights into this most interesting "village." Caught the end of a session based on enterprise case studies. Rohit Bhargava, Influential Marketing Blog, offered lessons learned from the Ogilvy Ford Taurus blogger outreach program. 1. Know your product. 2. Tap into something they (bloggers/customers) know they can do. 3. Search visibility is a valid KPT 4. Provides valid opinions from real people It was Anne Plese's great story about how she turned a team of Cisco engineers into blogging rock stars and went from a focus on tradition marketing to social marketing that caught my interest. Goals were to grow wallet share and relevancy for a new product. The bloggers were positioned as "assets." Wow! the light bulb went on. Although I have thought of bloggers as a value-add component to a marketing strategy, I never went as far as to use the term "asset." Brilliant. In addition to writing their own posts the bloggers continued to actively participated in relevant conversations. Actually that's how they initially began as commenters on other people's blogs. It was Anne's vision to give them a platform (their own blogs) where they could also move the discussion into Cisco's world. In addition, the blogger relations program bloggers were given direct access to the engineers who built the product. Results - at least $250,000 in cost savings. Watch for an in depth interview with Anne on Diva Marketing coming soon! Jennifer Openshaw, WeSeed, and Spike Jones, Brains on Fire, spoke about reaching and connecting with women by building long-term movements not short-term campaigns. Jen and Spike reminded the (mostly women) audience that credibility comes from being vulnerable. Spike shared the case behind the successful Fisk-A-Teers ..or how an orange pair of scissors created a community of crafters. Jen reinforced that the way to a women's heart is: to make life easier, your product relevant, the experience fun. Looking forward to the innovative investment site she's about to launch targeted to women which includes her tips: easy, relevant, fun. Lesson Learned: A person with passion can be more "influential" than an "influencer." Toss a pink boa to Becky Carroll, Customers Rock and Des Walsh, Thinking Home Business who invited me to share the stage with them and the talented people on their panels. Tweets of Becky's panel - Creating Customer Loyalty with Social Media (with Brian Solis, and "brand tweeters": Frank Eliason, Comcast, Tony Hsieh, Zappos)- from @pblackshaw, @dbrazeal, @beckylicious721. Tweets of Des' panel - Getting Customer Buy-in & Managing Client Relationships (with Rich Brooks and Robyn Tippins)- from @trishussey, @dbrazeal, @waderockett. Be sure to catch Becky's blog series on Customers Rock about using social media for customer service. More pink boa tosses .. Average Jane for walking the trade show floor with me. Smiles from Glenda Watson Hyatt, whose thumbs .. right and left .. are in amazingly great shape. Dinner with Paul Chaney and his diva wife Aime while watch Las Vegas from the skies. Jay Berkowitz's "quiet" dinner which was a great chance to actually sit down & hear people talk. Geoff Livingston for including me in his video series with uber cool peeps. Finally! meeting James Andrews and Ellen Marden who is picture perfect. Liz Strauss (slides from her presentation), David Berkowitz (great A-Z wrap post of the event!) Tish Grier, Tris Hussey, Nicole Simon and Matt Dickman and well you know who you are .. but more important I do too. Thanks for a great weekend. Oh .. the next time you see me walking through an airport I'll be reading on my new Kindle I won from Newstex. Sweet! Thanks to Mike Elgan for the Kindle image.
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Liveblogging: Andrew Jones on “The Missional Church in the Internet Age”
http://www.rhettsmith.com/?p=113110:44am: Andrew Jones is setting up for his talk….people are beginning to stream in the room..everyone looking for power strips. haaa 10:50am: #bwe08 is one of the best conferences to be at in my opinion. Where else do you get such diversity in the tech world (i.e. politics, military, ministry, tech, etc.) 11:00am: I’m chatting with Brett McCracken from Still Searching. Check out his blog…sweet stuff. This quote is sitting up on the screen. I’m supposing Andrew Jones is beginning his talk with it…maybe. “Let this observation be a safeguard against sinning: let us each note and write down our actions and impulses of the soul as though we were to report them to each other.” Athanasius, Vita Antoni, 4th Century 11:05am: Dustin Steeve is up introducting GodblogCon to everyone and welcoming them. Dustin and his team of volunteers have done a great job. Kudos to them. 11:10am: Welcome Andrew Jones…probably my favorite blogger there is, and definitely one of the smartest out there in the new media. He has been blogging for 11 years. Yeah, how many of you even knew there were blogs 11 years ago…. 11:12am: Hilarious. Andrew Jones asked someone to come up and help him with the PC Powerpoint..awesome, Mac guy doesn’t know how to use the PC. 11:15am: Andrew Jones is giving us “you might be a faith blogger IF…..” You can see it on his blog here. 11:18am: Jones says the cyberchurch vs. the traditional/modern church is a false dichotomy. The “Church has always been virtual.” He’s using the story of the woman at the well to share the importance of our praise (which means to publish, share with others) in the new media world online. 11:20am: “blog your whole life. don’t be scared.” Jones is talking about how your sermons might be great, but your children and grandchildren are going to know what kind of cereal you want to eat. what’s your favorite color. 11:25am: “A blog should not be a well, but a spring.” It shouldn’t be a container for thoughts, images, etc, but should reflect the life given image of Christ in me, etc. Andrew Jones blogging journey, and some milestones in blogging: Geocities–then he went to Blogger and loved the archiving. Then comments came, and changed the one way conversation that used to exist in blogging. Andrew is sharing about how he used to get emails back in the day before comments, and how he used to cut and paste emails and put them in the blog post. Then tags came. Then widgets came, and we are able to bring everything together….Twitter, Facebook, etc. 11:27am: 11:32am: Andrew is starting to talk about life streaming now. Blogging is just one component of life streaming/life streaming. 11:35am: Andrew talking about how to drive traffic: tags, history, etc. 11:45am: Andrew Jones on Len Manoviceh’s 5 Principles of New Media: 1) Numerical Representation 2) Modularity 3) Automation 4) Variability 5) Transcoding Jones: In regards to the Church “We are talking about transcoding and not just translating….we don’t go native enough.” The Church just too often translates and not transcodes. 11:50am: Jones says if you want to see how the church is being formed look at the new media (i.e. collaboration, crowdsourcing, etc,) Jones says that Church is going to be more modular, not singular. We won’t be going to one church anymore where we have everything. We will have a worship service somewhere. A bible study somewhere else. A prayer meeting somewhere else. Something online. A conference, etc. 11:55am: Andrew is talking on the idea of a “gift economy” in the blogging, and new media world. Amazing stuff. You can see his thoughts on this issue at his blog, here. Lots of good questions for him, and not enough time for him to talk. He is awesome. Great way to kick off the day. Check out our interview with Andrew Jones.
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Random Acts of Linkage #77
http://www.subversiveinfluence.com/wordpress/?p=1798Happy Saturday, readers! This always brings some of the week’s linkage across the wide weird web… beginning as usual with some kind of joke, right? This week, a litany of one-liner in-a-bar jokes: A Times New Roman (typical default) font walks into a high-class bar. The bartender takes one look at him and says, “Sorry, we don’t serve your type here!” Guy walks into a bar with a duck on his head. Bartender looks at the duck, then the guy, and says, “Can I help you?” The duck says, “Yeah, you can get this guy off my butt!” A corn stalk walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Wanna hear a good joke?” The corn stalk says, “I’m all ears!” A giraffe walks into a bar and orders a bottle of beer. The bartender says, “Do you want a longneck?” The giraffe says, “Do I have a choice?” A soccer ball rolls into a bar and tries to get service, but the bartender kicks him out. Alright, the links… 51 uses for Coca-Cola – the ultimate list. Grace is on about Sarah Palin and Joel’s Army following on a Huffington Post article that aligned Palin with the Jesus Camp set. Earlier in the week, she was giving The Charismatic Family Tree a good shake. Who, really, are the Most Awesomest Muppets? “Apparently Ikon runs an ‘Omega’ course for those interested in exiting the church. For anyone familiar with the ‘Alpha’ course, this is seriously funny.” — Sarcastic Lutheran, via Dave Wainscott David Brush reviews Scot McKnight’s forthcoming The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible Follow the link through Michelle Obama from two different camera angles to compare how MSNBC and Fox News covered her speech. Very different. iMonk: Difficult Concept Workshop: Repeat After Me…”The Shack Is A Story” Jason Clark announces a Doctor of Ministry for ‘Reflective Practitioners’: Global Missional Leadership Andrew Jones had a birthday this week (happy belated), and his big gift this year was his own Wikipedia entry. It’s been flagged for review, so do drop by and flesh it out with more details, links, and external references. I’ve added a footnotes section for this, which should get things started. Maybe someone will add an “Influence” section. Simpsons fans will be keen to see a map of Springfield. Jonathan Brink on words (and I love the pic too.) How To Fold A $1 Into A T-Shirt Do you have a 10-year-old girl? Ten Ways To Love Your Ten Year Old Girl… and the mystery that they are. I enjoyed this piece on Saying our Prayers and the perspective on repeating written prayers. Ben Witherington reviews Frank Viola’s Reimagining Church in a series of posts. Chapter 5 is his favourite. You Might Be A Faith-Blogger IF . . . I don’t recall that I’ve been called “crisp” ever before, but I think it’s good, judging by the other adjectives employed. Scot & Kris McKnight are soon to be grandparents. Congratulations are most certainly in order, and are hereby extended accordingly. John Walton does a short Hebrew word study on “deception” and interpreting Genesis 3:3. This reminded me of my own Hebrew studies and the fact that while we were out visiting friends for dinner not long ago, I noticed the Greek and Hebrew tools on his bookshelves. It’s not as hard to find people who studied Greek (Koine or Classical), but more rare to find those who have studied Hebrew. When I asked him, his Greek is in the state of my Hebrew, and my Hebrew in the state of his Greek… that is, I have trouble reading Hebrew now. He’s kept his up and I’m envious — but I suppose I have only myself to blame. Does anyone have good resources for refreshing Greek and Hebrew? contextless links, random acts of linkage, random links, remaindered links, unfinished reading You can show appreciation for this post by buying me a can of soup... Share This
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Weekly Meanderings
http://www.jesuscreed.org/?p=4282John Kennedy and Maria Shriver in Chicago, and Reagan at Wrigley: (Notice the Dems are on the left and the Repubs on the right. Nothing but fair and balanced.) Anyone who mentions that Kris and I are soon to be grandparents gets a link. Karen not only spelled our names accurately, but she said “envious” instead of “jealous,” which just proves Karen’s knows her craft. Here’s a nice article about her book and I’ll do a few posts on it next week. Zoe’s Leadership Conference. David Neff has an exceptional piece comparing Garrison Keillor’s “weary” voice — this expression is exquisite because I sensed that this summer when we heard him at Ravinia — and Robert Webber’s ancient-future voice. Ted Gossard begins 40 days with St John of the Cross. How has blogging changed your life? Jim Martin’s reflections. Rob’s been posting some cool pictures lately. Should pastors publicly discuss those under their care? (Like Sarah Palin’s pastor.) Michael Kruse on the shifting tides in philanthropy. Erika is asking about how to nurture young Ophelias. On loving the church … from iMonk. Ed Gilbreath weighs in on the Wilson sisters protesting the use of their barracuda song at the RNC. LL Barkat reflects on how to avoid senility. Does sexism trump racism? (Asks Ed Gilbreath.) And Shawna, a Friend, on working at MacDonald’s (HT: DR). TSK … he’s the guy! Pray for Tony … and his dissertation. John Ortberg says an evangelical is someone who loves Jesus, takes the Bible seriously, and engages the world around. Good for him. Welcome back to the BlogWorld Bob! (Where’ve you been?) One of the more intelligent, brief, and crisp discussions of what is going on in things “emerging” and “emergent” has been written up by Brother Maynard. It is not fair to define “emerging” as “missional,” and Br Maynard observes this. Missional is how to define what we are doing and “emerging” refers to what the church is becoming in our generation, but the two terms are intimately connected for many of us. Speaking of “missional” — check Tamara’s blog. Big Mac - a - Day club. I know someone, whose initials are Matt Williams, a prof at Biola, who had one every day for four years when he was a student at the U of I. Al Mohler, President of SBC, says Sarah Palin can lead the nation, but that roles defined by the New Testament for women at home and in the church are different. Don’t tell your teenage son about this site: Speed Trap Location. An excellent and thoughtful blog: Dave Schmelzer, of Not the Religious Type, a book about which I will be blogging sometime soon. Stan Friedman interviewed both Hauna Ondrey and me about our book. Thanks Stan. This appears to be a step forward in Zimbabwe. Sleeping alone? 1. Remembering is a lot like doing. 2. Is Palin attracting evangelicals? 3. Are you aware of the Bob Woodward series being run at Washington Post on the Bush Iraq War decisions? 4. The book that has most influenced most writers. A review by a fine writer himself. 5. Meghan McCain, John McCain’s daughter, is a blogger. 6. Caesar’s sectarians — a CT piece. 7. The heart-beat-away argument turned inside out. By the way, Kristol mentioned Palin as McCain’s VP pick back in June. 8. Bipolar and the age of the father. 9. Anyone read this story? 10. Teenage girls co-ruminating. Sports: Go Amanda Wallden. Athletes gone political. The Bears surprised everyone in beating Indy:
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