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I’ve heard it said that you learn to teach by teaching. You learn to preach by preaching. “Practice makes perfect.” I’d say that practice does help. And some other resources can help too, like a personal coach and looking at a broader [ . . . ]

This is a conversation I want to engage. And Vince Marotte has fired the first shot. It won’t be the last. The church has a big glaring communication problem and Vince calls it out with his first eBook, Context and Voice: Communication [ . . . ]

I’d love to connect with you at the Cultivate Conference in a few weeks — the dates are May 4-5 in Huntington Beach, California. That is within driving distance all over Southern California, so you can drive it, even from San Diego. [ . . . ]

My article, “How Real Relationships Grow Online” was published in the print edition of INHERITANCE Magazine (May 2010). INHERITANCE is a magazine for Asian American Christian that launched in 2009. You know what to do: read + add your comments below.

Open publication [ . . . ]

At the Ideation Conference this week, one of my aha moments was realizing a new breed of non-profit organizations that primarily serve the role of fundraising and raising awareness. I was touched by the collaborative spirit of the humanitarians at #theideation, and [ . . . ]

Words mean things. And different people use the same words to mean different things. This makes for either mass confusion or fierce conversations. The context of our own self-talk (internal conversations) colors everything we hear and read. These are some recent phrases [ . . . ]

Here’s what I tell people when I advise someone about which web tool they should use. Summary:

Choose twitter if you like to text
Choose blogging if you like to write
Choose audio podcasting if you like to talk
Choose video if you like to talk [ . . . ]

Keen observers here at my personal blog may have noticed a change of pace with blog posts as of late. This disruption of rhythm involves 2 things.
One, I’ve been rethinking how I can better communicate my own voice while representing 2 [ . . . ]

Okay, it’s no more than 26.4% real. Here’s my math, to show my work:
We have 5 senses: see, hear, touch, taste, smell. The online world allows us to see and hear one another. That’s 40%.
(Aside: I don’t think we want taste or [ . . . ]