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I’ve never been to that mega-conference called Catalyst, missed meeting Brad Lomenick at Q NYC (I think that’s where our paths crossed), and didn’t catch them on their road trip. I’m not able to go cross country this year either.

Lots of buzz words dominate the conversations I’m hearing: excellence. productivity. purpose. effective. passionate. mission. vision. results. Frankly, it’s overwhelming to me. The past 2 weeks have been humbling to me, and I’ve had to slow down. And, Craig Groeschel spoke to [ . . . ]

Spending the day at ChurchTechCamp; see the live streaming video, chat room, live tweets, and live blogging >> Here’s a quick video scanning the #churchtechcamp audience Search for hashtag #churchtechcamp for multiple simultaneous voices; follow me at twitter.com/djchuang for mine This afternoon [ . . . ]

Words mean things; they have a lexical definition. But that’s not all. There’s more! Words carry emotions based on one’s experience and context, both nature and nurture (personality bent and family upbringing, respectively.) And effective communication is all about finding the words [ . . . ]

Church TechCamp is set for next Friday, September 26th, at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California. It’s an unconference for followers of Christ to talk about web technologies and the church; it’s an all-day participant-driven gathering. There’s a a website at churchtechcamp.com, a [ . . . ]

I love cities! I’ll be in Chicago until Tuesday for a conference and a couple meetups. Love the culture here with great food, arts, music, neighborhoods, skyscrapers, public transit, vibe, et al. Haven’t lived here, only occasional visits every few years. What [ . . . ]

1st leg of my tri-city trip in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My first time here ever. Hangin’ out with Seth Kim, who pastors Harvest Mission Community Church, which is now a multi-site church in 4 locations: Ann Arbor, Evanston, Austin, and Chicago. You [ . . . ]

Many great insights show up in the comment thread of blogs, especially on A-list blogs [FYI, I'm B-list]. I’m surprised that with web technologies multiplying on so many fronts that a search engine hasn’t been built sooner to crawl blog comments. Plus, [ . . . ]

Hurricane Gustav has left a mess, and pastor Dino Rizzo from the Healing Place Church is asking for help. There’s a whole list of top needs items here. Love these easy instructions that Tim Stevens has posted for us to help right [ . . . ]