Today I’m talking about the strategic use of social media with pastors, leaders, and seminarians at a luncheon introducing the new Asian-American D.Min. program at Talbot Seminary. I’m honored to be included as part of the cohort’s team along with Dr. Ben [ . . . ]
How Urbana 12 Changed My Life Too
I count it a great privilege to be invited to serve as an Urbana 12 steward (their fancy word for volunteer) and it was so much fun! Urbana is a large-scale missions conference that just finished out on this last week of [ . . . ]
How to keep social media from being a distraction
All too often I hear people complain about how distracting social media is. That’s not a fair comment, because there are far greater distractions like interruptions of a phone call or a person that stops by your desk (office, or cubicle), and [ . . . ]
List of most popular Facebook pages of churches and ministries
What are the Facebook pages for churches and ministries with the most likes, aka fans? As we’ve entered the post-billion era of Facebook (the social network that surpassed 1 billion monthly active users on October 4th, 2012), it’s time to update my [ . . . ]
Why church planters must use social media
I’m meeting up with a group of church planters in downtown Long Beach, California, and talking about social media in 17 minutes. That’s 1 minute short of an iconic TED talk. And the schedule has room for 17 minutes of Q&A to [ . . . ]
Watch out for church planters blogging
Pastors who are planting churches in the 21st century, (some of them anyways,) are inviting people to follow along as things unfold in the process. They used to call it progress reports, but that sounds oh-so formal. Now it’s in the genre [ . . . ]
NWLC California 2012 Slides
Here in Escondido, a suburban city I think you can call it, North of San Diego, California, for this regional rendition of National Worship Leader Conference October 9-11. 3 full days of conferencing to equip the every member of the church leadership [ . . . ]
10,000 reasons for the popularity of Gangnam style
What’s up with this crazy wild viral popularity of PSY and Gangnam style? Are millions being entertained because they’re laughing at Psy or laughing withPsy? What’s struck the nerve? First on YouTube, then appearances on mainstream media on the likes of Saturday [ . . . ]
Workshop Slides from NWLC 2012 KS
Facilitated 2 social media workshops at National Worship Leader Conference this week in Kansas City (Leawood), KS. Here are the slide decks. Download slides for Social Media Basics (PDF) Download slides for Advanced Social Media (PDF) Stay connected with me on Twitter [ . . . ]