My biggest peeve in perusing the daily, hourly, constant stream of Social Media (Twitter in particular) is the barrage of self-promotion that most organizations think is “doing Social Media”. If I weren’t committed to trying to lend my voice and my skills to helping the church understand and utilize Social Media* , I would have unfollowed a lot of “church” Continue Reading
Several minutes ago I tweeted: “Saying we’re doing social media because we use some of the tools is like saying my pet bird reads because he shits on the newspapers in the bottom of his cage. “ If you’re not using social media for conversations to get to know your audience, what’s "social" about that? You’re just using and being Continue Reading
Wow. Has it been that long already? This is a book that pointed me in the right direction. It got me blogging. It instilled some boldness in me. IN a sense, that it it has been 10 years has me a bit ashamed of myself. I would have thought I could have achieved so much more than I have. I Continue Reading
Doc Searls, one of the early bloggers and co-author of what many consider to be the Bible of social networking philosophy, The Cluetrain Manifesto, hasn’t been a big fan of Facebook. I’m with him on that. There isn’t much conversation that isn’t “water cooler†talk, and comparing favorites lists. Even in areas one would think would foster conversation, like “What Continue Reading
Terry Heaton of The PomoBlog has the same sort of reaction to Keen’s new release as I do: I’d never heard of this guy until Doc Searls wrote about his new book, The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet is killing our culture. I’ve ordered the thing, because it’s important for me to read this stuff, even though I Continue Reading
When I read this from something Doc Searls pointed to ( I pointed to it here), I rolled my eyes, thinking : Here’s some of that elitist reaction to the idea of a participatory Web, and charges of “amateur” and the loss of “authority” and “expertise”. the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0. It demonstrates definitively how the Continue Reading
One major area which keeps me absent from churches these days: lack of dilalogue about war, and what to do as a a people to “stand apart” from this; even OTHER than attending mass demonstrations. What proclaims PEACE other than carrying signs that say PEACE or countering the nationalistic yard signs or by utting up “PEACE” or “No War” yard Continue Reading
As in the kind of “nakedness” talked about in a new book by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, Naked Conversations: How blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers. I think I read somewhere in the intro that this book could be considered a sequel to The Cluetrain Manifesto (by different authors with the same message, with updated stories Continue Reading
This interview with David Weinberger on CIO caused me to go back and read that chapter again in The Cluetrain Manifesto the cluetrain manifesto – chapter five Conversation that understands that it isn’t a distraction from work, it IS the real work of business. This again is a key concept for Churches to understand, as well as businesses. The act Continue Reading
via Church of the Customer via Radiant Marketing Group via DocChurch of the Customer: Small businesses and blogging The Future of Blogging, In Their Own Words, Part II is the 3 Clutrain Bloggers, Doc, David Weinberger, and Rage Boy (Chris Locke) My favorite quote: Talking about some of his favorite “Corporate Bloggers”, Doc says: These aren’t corporate orifices shitting messages. Continue Reading
In his “Readers and Friends” entry on Monday, David Weinberger gave several angles on how writing Blogs is akin to our efforts to Make friends and also the comfortable zone of talking with friends, where we can be feel more free to wear our passion on our sleeve. And , as I usually segway with such things, such is the Continue Reading
Joho the Blog: Readers and friends That is, Weblogs are a relationship tool, and for me, a far less daunting tool than the “traditional” one (which is: living and being yourself and finding opporties to know and to be known). Weblogs bypass the worry (if you ever find yourself doing so, like I do) that we will come across as Continue Reading
Wired News: Unleashing the Web Police Consistent with his administration’s standards, Bush’s blog permits no public comment (from Waldo Jaquith) Typical and entirely predictable about the Bush administration. Thelight of day is the last thing they want.
I picked up “The Revolution Will NOT Be Televised” last night, and haven’t been able to put it down (except to laugh at several and various places aloong those first 40 pages I’ve read so far…the guy is funny too). I can sasy with complete confidence that the book is a gem after getting only 20% of the way through Continue Reading
About The Revolution I used an MT bookmarklet to blog this link to the Joe Trippi book (Howard Dean’s Internet Campaign guru)