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January 2013

January 17, 2013

Advice for Teaching Undergrads

Believe it or not, I've never taught undergrads before. Sure, I've given the occasional lecture...

October 2012

October 03, 2012

Killing Church Programs – What the Church Can Learn from Apple and Google

In your latest update to Apple's free program, iTunes, Ping is gone. It's disappeared. What...

July 2012

July 19, 2012

A Little Pushback on Ordain Thyself

I was interviewed this afternoon on AM800 CJAD talk radio in Montreal. One of the...

July 18, 2012

Ordain Thyself Makes CNN

Best part of the article is that they found a guy from Liberty University who...

July 13, 2012

Because the World Needs a Christian Tablet Computer

The good people at Family Christian have released Edifi, a "Christ-centered tablet," according to one...

July 02, 2012

Fight Back Against Facebook

Dear Readers Who Use Facebook (AKA, Dear All Readers), Facebook highly encouraged all of us...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

Ordain Thyself Website Is Live

If you haven't checked out the iPhone app that I dreamed up, I urge you...

June 06, 2012

Ordain Thyself Makes the Paper

The app I dreamed up -- Ordain Thyself -- made the Minneapolis newspaper today. You...

May 2012

May 18, 2012

Ordain Thyself

For the past few months, I've been collaborating with a few guys on a fun...

April 2012

April 12, 2012

It’s My 5-Year Twitter Birthday

What are you giving me? A follow, maybe? If you don't follow me on Twitter,...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

This Blog: Now Available on the Kindle

If you're a Kindle user, I'm happy to announce that this blog is now available...

February 2012

February 08, 2012

David Carr on Making – and Breaking – Bread with Clay Shirky

It seems that two of my heroes -- NY Times columnist, David Carr, and media...

October 2011

October 06, 2011

Steve Jobs, Beauty, and the Church

Earlier this week, before we learned of the death of Steve Jobs, someone I hadn't...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

Amazon’s New Tablet and the Future of Books

Today Amazon will debut their new tablet, the Kindle Fire. My guess is that it's...

September 19, 2011

Jew or Not Jew – The App!

It seems that Apple is again in some hot water for approving an app that...

August 2011

August 26, 2011

Among the Benefits of a Kindle

I love my Kindle, which I received as a gift from a friend. Though it...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

Please Don’t…

...send me an email announcing that you have a new blog post. ...refer to a...

July 10, 2011

Early Reviews of Google+

After days of whining on Twitter, Google finally let me in to their latest innovation,...

July 06, 2011

Preaching from an iPad

Social Phonics Coach, Adam Walker Cleaveland, is quoted in a story by Sam Hodges in...

May 2011

May 20, 2011

Another Great Boot Camp

Been super busy this week. I'm also taking a bit of a breather on the...

May 09, 2011

I Love this Ad

It's for Google Chrome, which I also love:

March 2011

March 17, 2011

Elizabeth Drescher: Facebook Doesn't Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

Elizabeth Drescher has a great post at Religion Dispatches, riffing on Richard Beck's excellent post...

March 12, 2011

Are You Protecting Yourself Online?

Over at Social Phonics, we put up five posts this week -- they were sent...

January 2011

January 10, 2011

The Battle for the Church (Market)

There's a battle brewing in the church in America. It's not over gay marriage or...

September 2010

September 13, 2010

Helpful Books for Church Leaders

Today I begin teaching an online course for Andover-Newton Theological School called, "Pastoral Uses of...

June 2010

June 22, 2010

Facebook Mail

I hate, hate, hate Facebook mail. You can't archive old messages, so you must either...

June 15, 2010

College 2.0

The Chronicle of Higher Education has the story of Salman Khan, a 33-year-old who has...

March 2010

March 10, 2010

Why a Social Media Boot Camp?

Kevin has posted an interview with me about the JoPa Social Media Boot Camps over...