What is a Blog Party?

Please answer me world!

Windows Live Writer

This is a test to see if I will like using the Windows Live Writer with my blog.  I usually hate Microsoft

Leadership is...

GOOD WORD

clipped from bobhyatt.typepad.com PastorHacks Leadership is... "Leadership is about bringing out and mobilizing the best in the people around you. It’s about helping a group of people work together towards a shared goal or set of goals. When leadership works, it creates leaders, not followers." What do leaders do? Leaders listen. Leaders empower those around them. Leaders recognize others’ strengths. Leaders are trustworthy. Leaders are confident. Leaders make decisions. Leaders recognize the value in other perspectives. Leaders commit to action. Leaders demand commitment from others. Leaders share ownership.

Kim Meyer's Blog is starting to be my favorite

Great Insight from moms

clipped from kemmeyer.typepad.com Kem Meyer on Less Clutter & Noise Increasing quality of life and church Helpful advice my mom just sent me...

Gen Y information

Tony Steward refered me to this article...good reference. Make sure you read the whole article through the link

Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults that's compromised of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen X'ers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the size of Gen X. As the Boomers fade into retirement and Gen Y takes root in the workplace, we're going to see some big changes ahead, not just at work, but on the web as a whole. There's some contention over where exactly Gen Y starts and stops - some say those born 1983-1997, others think 1982-1997. In this week's Entertainment Weekly, Gen Y is defined as "current 13 to 31 year-olds" and BusinessWeek says they can be as young as five. Regardless, we know who they are - they're the young kids of today, the most digitally active generation yet, having been born plugged in..... clipped from www.readwriteweb.com

I have issues #1

Okay as most of my youth through the ages know, I have have an office supply addiction...but mostly i love moleskines and i love looking at other people's moleskines on flickr.

clipped from www.flickr.com

Drinking Coffee in Church

What a great article from this blog. I have been enjoying their comments on church life. Check out the rest of the article to see how come coffee has become so popular in church

clipped from stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com Ten years ago, if you drank coffee during the middle of a church service you were known as "that coffee guy" or "that tea lady." It's not that it was unheard of, but it certainly wasn't as popular as it is today. Now, forgetting your coffee cup before service is like leaving your Bible at home. While the rest of the people sitting near you enjoy Triple foam Hazelnut Creme Flavor Mocha Venti Explosions, you sit there like some sort of drinkless hobo. It's embarrassing. When I open up the SCL gift shop, which will have all 6 promise products, I'm going to sell a Bible with a hollowed out spine that you can put coffee in. There will be a little screw top spout at the top and anytime you need a sip you can just tip your Bible back. I'll call it, "the bean of God" or the "JAVA edition of the Bible" or "hot coffee hidden inside a Bible." The last one lacks pizazz but they can't all be winners.

Text Polls

Sounds priceeee but it sounds like a great potential versus purchasing an inhouse polling system

clipped from polleverywhere.com Captivate Your Audience with Text Message Polls

DoAble Evangelism

This has great potential for a starting point in the ministry I am trying to start.

clipped from doableevangelism.com The current practice of “counting” only conversions is counter-productive and biblically suspect. It seems that the fundamental building block of evangelism — connecting — is a much better place to start. Ok, so the reality is that at best, only 10% of Christians have the “gift” of evangelism. So where does that leave the rest of us ordinary types? Pretty much on the sidelines watching and cheering (and writing checks). This seems unacceptable to us. It’s time evangelism became a spiritual practice again, instead of a program. After practicing what we call “ordinary attempts”, many people tell us that they feel "validated" and empowered, having discovered that God counts what they already do and knowing they can do more of that, with greater intention. That gets more people in the game…something we’ve failed to do in recent history.

Why I texttwitterfacebookbloggoogleustream... from Kem Meyer

I saw this blog the other day and I think it answers the question why I use all these social networks...

Why I texttwitterfacebookbloggoogleustream...
from Kem Meyer

It's true. I use them all. Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Jott, Spinvox, Xobni, YouVersion, Ustream and more.

At first glance, it seems completely contradictory to my mantra: Less Clutter. Less Noise. But, in reality, these technologies effectively help me to COMPRESS time, INCREASE my knowledge base, ORGANIZE my thoughts and calendar, ENHANCE my relationships and hold me ACCOUNTABLE. I link them all together, and set preferences to auto-deliver the stuff I need NOW and organize the stuff I'll reference LATER in categories. Depending on the circumstance and objective...I have both close and extended people groups, regular and intermittent interactions, public and private content.

There's no one size fits all approach for the "how to" of this concept. So don't ask for it. You can't make a well-informed decision from an explanation; it has to be experienced. The best advice I can give is to try one at a time and see how it fits.

There was an article in last month's Wired about using today's Web apps to separate out the good stuff. Some excerpts:

• We've hit this critical point where our ability to create information has outstripped our ability to manage it. Knowledge workers spend more time sorting stuff than actually using it.
• What I needed was some help-an assistant to do some sifting for me. Ding! Robot psychology. Awesome. Amplify human intelligence with machine intelligence.
• My Facebook page attracts my friends with whom I share social bonds. Meanwhile, my science blog attracts complete strangers with whom I share a common interest in a topic. Sometimes these strangers tend to tell me things and point me to links that are more useful than the social stuff on my Facebook. [Kem here: In my world...Twitter accomplishes both. It's the hybrid app for me; social and semantic.]
• Our information overload isn't going away. To find our way, we need a Web that organizes itself.

Holy Failure

I have a blog on Holy Failure when it comes to helping youth to find their spiritual gifts. Go check it out.

Lee

check out o2ministry.org

Hey checkout this great worship service in Canton. It is relational, it teaches and is relevant.

www.o2ministry.org

Lee

#35: How to help students discover their spiritual gifts

Hey I've been part of a podcast for youth pastors. Its called "Who Are These Guys Podcast." the recent podcast is #35: How to help students discover their spiritual gifts.