The Blogference is an online conference that I have hosted for the last four years. It seeks to start ministry conversations and connect ministry starters around the world. This year’s theme is Evolve and the vision is that ministry leaders would not only discern the changes in culture and technology, but evolve and make significant …
Marissa Mayer (VP of Google) presented a seminar today at SXSWI on Google’s location based technology, specifically in mobile devices. Check out these statistics: and this one… Here’s my favorite stat: 2 years. Everyday. I would love to see more innovation that results in EXPONENTIAL increases of time and productivity!
How many people on Facebook and Twitter would have to see an invitation to participate in a cause-driven campaign in order to get just 10 people to take action? I highly recommend Tom Webster’s blog for data-driven insights on social media. Recently he attempted to get his friends and followers online to help out a …
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Everyone is on Facebook, but most people do not like pages with religious/spiritual content. This is a slide from Dan Zarrella’s Science of Facebook Marketing presentation. His presentation was based on data collected from Facebook users. It’s interesting to me that Religious Organizations and Pets are significantly more disliked than most other pages. This slide …
“All the people I’m trying to reach are on Facebook.”–from a recent NY Times post on youth usage of social media. Here’s three questions to ask yourself and those in your ministry leadership to diagnose how closely you are aligned to the social media usage patterns of your audience: What kind of content does the …
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Chris Brogan shared this info-graphic on mobile trends and the exponential rise of text-messaging. My takeaway: If you are not texting more than you are calling then you are not communicating contextually.
Charlene Li shared an insightful presentation on the changes in technology that are starting to gain traction amongst early adopters. Hot Or Not: The Disruptive Tech Outlook for 2011 View more presentations from Charlene Li. It’s worth scanning through these slides to see if you or those you are serving are engaging in any of …
You cannot be effective in ministry today unless you are PROFICIENT in technology/social media. Not an expert, nor a casual observer, but intentional, strategic, and humble to learn, try, and discard technological tools. I love what Matt Stauffer, a staff member from Intervarsity, is doing over at Staffhacker. So much so that I’m going to …
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“Likes” and the social graph that creates them represent a new contextual layer on top of the existing web. It’s a layer that brings new opportunities for discovery and personalization in a world where noise is expanding much faster than signal.–VentureBeat blog post Perhaps the Like button is annoying to you or someone you know. …
Mailchimp has transformed the way I make decisions about people on my financial support team. Being able to specifically see who opens and clicks on links inside our monthly newsletter provides an additional dial to evaluate someone’s commitment. Before that layer I relied on these things to discern commitment: Special financial gifts given above the …
