I’m not one for making predictions about what life will be like online in the near future. It’s tough. Things change all the time. However, I suspect a new trend is going to emerge.
MySpace and Facebook been dominating the social network scene (at least in North America) for the last several years. […]

Want to help your high school student transition to college well? LiveAbove.com has the resources and information you need to help them get started in the right direction. This is a cooperative venture between most of the campus ministries in the U.S.

Would love to get your comments and weigh-in here. I used to be a big proponent of uploading creative and ministry-oriented videos to YouTube. I’m a little more cautious now after talking with several staff and reading about someone’s copyright conundrum with YouTube.
Here’s what I like about hosting a video at YouTube:

free hosting
tags […]

From Google’s description:
http://mail.google.com/mvideo A compilation of clips submitted by Gmail fans as part of our collaborative video project. Selected from over 1,100 clips from fans in more than 65 countries. Learn more at http://mail.google.com/mvideo
What about a global collaborative video Jesus project? Or even an “I’m part of a local movement” project? Or a “I’m home […]

Just a thought: you think supporters are like stockholders in a company? You think they want to hear about results more than the steps along the way to results?
For example, I read this from Starbucks Gossip
I’m sure that’s the sort of thing that Starbucks shareholders want to hear. …If you’re going to do something […]

If you are involved in marketing you probably have heard of Kathy Sierra’s blog, Creating Passionate Users. If you’ve followed her site over the last few weeks, you will have seen her cancel a speaking event due to some pretty disgusting and threatening comments as well as posts on other sites.
I’m not going to touch […]

Gerry McGovern does a lot of publishing about internal internet communications (aka: intranet). Today’s thought: New Thinking by Gerry McGovern: The future is collaborative.
I think he nails the concept of being people-based in your approach:
For the intranet to play its part in breaking down the silo mentality and instead encouraging and facilitating cross-departmental collaboration, […]

It seems lately I’ve been talking to several people about communication. One of the principles I keep coming back to is that every communication has similar pieces to it: name, date, title, and body. However, what changes for each of these is the format and the frequency.
Let me see if I can explain […]

EveryStudent.com was built primarily to answer students’ questions about who God is and what it might be like to know Him. God began using the site to draw large numbers of people to faith so Marilyn Adamson, the site’s director, built another site, startingwithGod.com.
This site has all of what a new believer needs to […]

eMinistryNotes.com reader Dave wrote me this week about their church website, Gateway Church Leeds. He writes:
Since putting testimonies at the centre of our site and deliberately using it as an evangelistic tool (many church members now have a link in their email signature, a hugely effective tool), we’ve had a number of completely unchurched […]