Tag: communication

  • I love real-time updates and open information

    This is why I use the Internet and social media the way that I do. Undoubtedly we have already seen how powerful the Internet and the social media is, with real world-changing things like Arab Spring (social media overturning governments), memes that “go viral,” and the launching of billion-dollar companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and…

  • How to be effective by having no agenda

    I enjoy meeting all kinds of people and it’s easy for me to talk with people without an agenda. I love to get to know people by sharing our stories with each other, talking about what we’re working on, and explore how to help one another in life. But, I have to confess, I get…

  • 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 follow my color commentary about social media and church planting.With this being a…

  • Learning how to preach better and present too

    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 range of samples than just a few favorites. As someone who does public…

  • The need for Context and Voice. new eBook.

    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 Design in our New Media Culture. Vince describes the problem this way in…