When we planned and ran MinistryNet: Budapest 2005, we never imagined there’d be a lot of press on it.
However, we know that the Internet Evangelism Coalition, the Lausanne Committee’s e-newsletter, and now The Christian Post ran an article entitled Marketing, Branding and Effective Outreach Through the Internet.
Cool.

President Bush provides a great quote on communities during his speech during his commencement address at Calvin College:
Our Founders…gave us instead a society where individual freedom is anchored in communities. And in this hopeful new century, we have a great goal: to renew this spirit of community and thereby renew the character and compassion of […]

This is a little longer…but stick with me.
I’m not really into podcasting right now but I think many will be soon. Some complain “…podcasting is much to do about nothing” (though to his defense he’s hopeful).
Podcasting is when you create audio files and make them available for download and subscribers are notified […]

Got a spare $700? Wish I did.
American Marketing Association Blog Seminar in Boston on June 24th

Yeah, I’m sure I’ll win
But, if you want to nominate this as a favorite marketing blog, MarketingSherpa is doing a vote and taking write-ins.

Here’s an interesting tip to study design: visit a skateboard shop.

Steve Rubel tells me this amazing quote:
The day InfoWorld’s top news RSS feed received more requests than our home page, I started thinking a frightening thought - RSS is doing to the Web today what the Web has been doing to print for the last several years.

From lifeway.com:
1. Blogging will bring churches closer together as it closes a communication gap 2. Blogging will help to develop sermons and classes3. Blogging will break down barriers and remove masks4. Blogging will help the church to engage the culture.
I know becuase Corporate Blogging Blog told me so.

Frank at Strategic Digital Outreach tells us about how Steve has grown because of blogs as a follower of Christ and a leader.
Blogs can be effective for ministry. Steve is proof.

For those of us in the US, here’s an cool idea. People are using the new Google Maps to create cool applications. For instance, I just read from BeConnected how someone has created a way to map out local cheap gas.
How could we be creative and use something like this?