You get tired of all the jargon you find in your ministry? You should. And you shouldn’t use jargon when ministering to others. People just don’t get it.
I found this mug after browsing some humorous office jargon.
A long time ago I talked about the use of jargon.

I haven’t read the new Time Magazine article yet, but Tod does a good job helping us think about the role of community online:
In the same article, David Brooks wonders if the internet is actually hindering what he calls “demographic diversity” even while it helps create more “geographic diversity”: “There once were millions of […]

Wow. Almost 2.5 million people in India has a cell phone.
What’s your ministry strategy?
Peter of BeConnected has some thoughts for a mobile marketing strategy. We should be thinking along the same lines.

Keith Seabourn has posted a great post called Maintenance or Mission? I’m sure many of you in ministry can relate to the struggles he talks about here. I post it to hopefully give you some encouragement.

Technorati, “the authority” on blog search and stats, has released their report State of the Blogosphere, October 2005 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth. Their summary:

As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 million weblogs
The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months
The blogosphere is now over 30 times as […]

Jakob Nielsen, the usability expert, now comments on the usability problems of blogs including but not limited to:

No Author Biographies
Nondescript Posting Titles
Links Don’t Say Where They Go
The Calendar is the Only Navigation
Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service

I wanted to point these few out because I agree with them…especially if we want to […]

Jill Whalen is someone I pay a lot of attention to when it comes to search engine optimization. I think she’s one of the ones that really has her head screwed onto her shoulders quite well.
This week she released her New and Improved 10 Tips to the Top. I don’t take issue with […]

As you know I attended the first ever GodBlogCon. Here are some of my thoughts on it all in bullet and unorganized form:

I was impressed at the number of people. The AP said about 135 people were here. I thought it looked more like about 75.
It had the feel of a first […]

The GodBlogCon is over. I’ll post more on this later. For now, I wanted to share what a few of us look like! This is is Dr. Andrew Jackson of SmartChristian.com, myself, DJ Chuang of djchuang.com, and Doug Weiss of OutsideTheBoxMinistry.com.

I’m having some trouble with the default word press feeds. Bear with me as I try and figure out what’s wrong.
There’s more tweaks on the way, but feel free to leave a comment here with suggestions or things you notice are broken.
UPDATE: I think the feed is working again. I think the server […]