Category: Social Media
Seth Godin Explains Why You Need A Tribe
In this leadership video, popular author and marketing guru, Seth Godin explains why you need a tribe to impact the world. He is the best-selling author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us and The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit and When to Stick. Check out his blog at [...]
Guest Blogger: Phil Cooke “Media Ministries: Welcome to the New Normal”
Back in the days of only 3 TV channels, there were a handful of monster sized media ministries: Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, Rex Humbard, and Jimmy Swaggart topped the list early, with Pat Robertson and Robert Schuller coming in a bit later. Then, with the advent of religious TV networks, more started growing: Rod Parsley, [...]
Can Ministry Have Two Worlds?
It’s quite amazing to watch everyone get bit by the social media phenomena. I think about every pastor I know is on Facebook and Twitter; and if they’re not on it yet, I guarantee you they are talking with their staff about putting their profiles up very soon.Part of this online and social media phenomenon [...]
Social Media Revolution – The Landscape has Shifted
The media landscape has shifted dramatically in the past 4-5 years and even more so in the past 1-2 years. The flow of communication, information and media isn’t a one-way channel anymore, it’s a two-way channel. Watch the video below. It will be interesting to watch how it impacts the church and ministry leadership landscape.
The NINES – Online Conference Review
Today, at the NINES – online leadership conference was a great success. It was sponsored by the Leadership Network and Catalyst. It was my first leadership conference to experience online. It featured a long list of speakers like Steven Furtick, Ed Stetzer, Craig Groeschel, Perry Noble, Dino Rizzo, Margarete Fienberg, Mark Batterson, Anne Jackson, Neil [...]
Behind-the-Scenes at the ECHO ’09 – Church Media Conference
This last Thursday (7/30/09), I had the opportunity to drop in for a few hours at the ECHO ’09 – Church Media Conference in Dallas, TX. It was exciting to be around ministry innovators who specialize in media and communications within the church media landscape. The conference featured media and church communication guru’s like Phil [...]
Boundaries & Accountability – Part 2 (Tech Toys)
One of the biggest distractions for leaders and their families is an over emphasis on technology. In other words, if you can’t sit down and have dinner with your family without checking your Blackberry, Facebook or Twitter, you have some serious issues you need to work out. I believe one of the most important things [...]
(Guest Blogger: Micah Davis) Twitter + Live Experiences = @ParaTweet
A lot of folks have asked me how to utilize Twitter at their live experiences. With most applications centered around the web or phone, there hasn’t been much in the way of an answer. Hence the decision to build http://ParaTweet.com. (@ParaTweet) ParaTweet is a real-time, full screen display of tweets pulled from any #tag or [...]
