Munchery provides professionally prepared meals to your doorstep. One of their tag-lines is “personal chefs to the masses.” What I love about Muchery is how it empowers local chefs and connects them to an entirely new audience. Young chefs that might have to wait years to get broad exposure and feedback now can have those …
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“More than 58 percent of mobile internet users in the U.S. are getting content through their browser(s), compared to 42 percent via mobile apps.”—source Yes it’s super cool to have your own iPhone or Android app but if you want your ministry content to be seen by the largest group of people on their mobile …
The MIT Media Lab recently unveiled a new logo. What’s interesting is that the logo has 40,000 permutations. “The basic idea here is that the logo has three intersecting spotlights that can be organized in any of 40,000 shapes and 12 color combinations using a custom algorithm.”–source I love the description of how and why …
Groupon just announced Groupon Now, a way to buy and use deals instantly. The video shows the power of social media for both the consumer and the vendor. I love the part where it talks about how the store owner can use it to spike business and that the consumer can leverage the geo-location feature …
“The future of media lies on interactive (touchable) screens of all sizes that function as portals to multi-media.”–Kevin Kelly Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired magazine presented at the Biola Media Conference on the future of media. He noted the increasing presence of screens all around us–billboards, tablets, windows, tv’s, etc. This resonated with me and …
“Only 1 out of every 500 updates makes it into your fans’ critical Top News feed, which is how 95 percent of Facebook members get their updates (excluding mobile users), according to Facebook itself. (The percentage of Page updates visible in a user’s Top News feed may be even smaller today.)”–business2community.com If your ministry has …
A huge challenge I observe in ministry is for leaders who grew up in the transaction era leading those who are ministering in the interaction era. Many ministry leaders consider themselves falsely ineffective because of the expectation to produce more transactions. The previous generation almost exclusively measured transactions in ministry: donations, attendance, decisions for Christ, …
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Smart, contextualized resource sharing gets me excited. This 1.5 minute video on BMW’s new car sharing service absolutely inspired me. Can’t see the video? Click here to view the video and the post in your browser.
“The digital world is shifting away from the desktop and towards a multiple-device but mobile-centric world. The college ministries that optimize their web presence around image-driven content, mobile-optimized applications will be most relevant and engaging.”–My Post on The Digital Future of Your College Ministry The Future of College Ministry Blog-athon is happening right now. There …
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“We are mission driven but medium agnostic.”–Scott Belsky Belsky runs Behance, a platform for creative professionals, and authored Making Ideas Happen, which was discussed on the recent RE-Think Blogference. The quote resonated with me because so often discussions about integrating social media into ministry center around which tool the “expert” prefers instead of which tool …
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