Self-Organizing Nature of Call

On the insight: Online Markets…Networked markets are beginning to self-organize faster than the companies that have traditionally served them. Thanks to the web, markets are becoming better informed, smarter, and more demanding of qualities missing from most business organizations. The “target group” of the Church,  is really unknown.  It’s something known by the process of discerning call.  The ones who Continue Reading

whatischurch

“Rediscovering Essence: What I Learned from the Church of the Savior in Washington D.C. Mike Bishop, whatischurch.com editor“ From the article: COS takes calling very seriously.  One of their deep values is to be committed to the process of call.  I say process, because we can never fully rest in one particular calling.  God is always speaking to us, beckoning Continue Reading

Yahoo unveils Web hosting services – Tech News – CNET.com

Yahoo starts maketing Web tools to small businesses — Another sign that “back-end” tool suites are on the up and up,  providing business management and e-commerce logging.  It seems that the Church is in the “small business category”,  but not neccessarily in the e-commerce realm;  but rather as an organization that needs to offer its “participants”a way to plan, support,  Continue Reading

Markets are conversations – Church is dialogue

Open Cluetrain Online from Gonzo Markets My comments in blue- Theology of Cluetrain Manifesto Cluetrain: A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. Relevant knowledge,  shared globally,  is a way to extend upon the concept of sharing knowledge and insight only in locality;  we benefit Continue Reading

95 Theses

95 theses the following are the 95 theses fromThe Cluetrain Manifesto:The End of Business as Usual Copyright © 1999, 2001 Locke, Weinberger, Searls & Levine. All rights reserved. cluetrain.com back to table of contents back to Gonzo Marketing home A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with Continue Reading

The Cluetrain Index Page from GonzoMarkets.com

the entire text* of The Cluetrain Manifesto Foreword (Petzinger) The 95 Theses Elevator Rap (Weinberger) Introduction (Locke) Chapter 1: Internet Apocalypso (Locke) Chapter 2: The Longing (Weinberger) Chapter 3: Talk Is Cheap (Levine) Chapter 4: Markets Are Conversations (Searls & Weinberger) Chapter 5: The Hyperlinked Organization (Weinberger) Chapter 6: EZ Answers (Locke & Weinberger) Chapter 7: Post-Apocalypso (Locke) order The Continue Reading

Gonzo Marketing – The Cluetrain Manifesto

Entire text of Cluetrain Manifesto There are so many direct correlations between MANY points in this manifesto and the theological convictions I hold regarding online communications and the Church — mainly,  that we need to be getting a clue much more intentionally than we have —- perhaps a Cluetrain category here?  That’s my next step.  When I push a few Continue Reading

Existing Structures

I have set up a system which needs many further refinements,  done as an effort to provide a way to update the Website through some data updates.  The Church Newsletter and weekly schedules are entered into a schema that organizes Site Page copy by section,  the “This Sunday ” link (which grabs a page full of copy I dump in from Continue Reading

Web Development Strategy

Now that my Web development is “free” (in the sense that the projects I am envisioning are now “from within” instead of imposed from above — in the sense of a workplace, managerial figure) ,  I want to begin to technically map some of the ways and means of achiveing and building enviroments where some of this “Church of the Continue Reading