As Twitter continues to grow into a powerful online influence platform it’s important to have a strategy in place for your ministry or non-profit. This strategy includes breaks down the management of an account into four different parts: Information This is the who, what, where, when and why of your organization. This is where most …
The people at IDEO hosted a pumpkin carving contest and one employee decided to build an iPhone app that controls the pumpkins eyes in just one hour. “I was able to conceptualize, build, and program this wirelessly-controlled-pneumatic-eye-popping pumpkin in just over an hour, barely missing the deadline but experiencing how powerful these low fidelity prototyping …
“My Facebook feed is full of what friends are listening to, what friends are reading, etc. And frankly, I don’t give a damn.”–Mike Loukides, The End of Social Loukides’ article addresses a serious challenge with so many applications pushing information into Facebook; meaningful information. Spotify is an online music service that provides the option of …
“If you (CEO’s) are not on Twitter then you are crazy”–Dana White Techcrunch recently interviewed Dana White, President of UFC. The entire video is worth watching, especially if you are a leader of a distributed team or seek to reach a geographically distributed audience. “There’s a laundry list of problems that I fix immediately (from …
“But now nobody knows what others do, even within the same organization”–source Making productive changes in a large organization requires skill, focus, and discipline. I discovered Productivity’s Sworn Enemy via Twitter, which made some great suggestions. “We are 100 years past the simple economy in which most people knew what others did at work…Everybody …
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“For starters, serving your audience in a way that they respect and respond to is the core mission of every organization.” —Brian Reich, Shift and Reset I asked a friend to recommend a book that would help me lead change in a non-profit and was focused on social media. Shift and Reset proved to be …
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“‘Light’ a short film directed by David Parker, initially began as a project intended to bring awareness to energy waste. Bleeding, crying lights were meant to metaphorically parallel the way in which we invisibly squander our natural resources without much thought. While the original sentiment remains, the film also grew into a poetic statement about …
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I realized that if I’m going to increase my effectiveness as a leader then my productivity must increase by an exponential factor. The first step in stewarding my time more effectively was integrating a task management program into my weekly routine. “Things” for Mac has been a great solution for me and has insured that …
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The potential to influence and interact with people using social media is unlimited, yet the focus of many ministry’s online efforts is on presence and impressions. Presence: “Having a website,” or for many it’s “having an iPhone app.” Simply being online is no longer valuable when there are millions (billions) of web pages, Twitter, Google+ …
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“5% of U.S. adults now scan 2D bar codes – including QR codes – with their smartphones, up from 1% in 2010.”–source I’m one of those people that think QR codes are cool and am willing to download an app that scans and reads them (although the “photo” search feature on the standard Google app …
