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This 2009 conversation: Me: Are you on foursquare? IRL* friend: Huh? Reminds me of this 2007 conversation: Me: Do you tweet? IRL friend: Huh? Is foursquare the next Twitter? Prominent technology blogger Robert Scoble says, via CNN, “Go back three years ago. Twitter was being used by the same crowd that is playing with Foursquare [...]
I’m on Facebook and LinkedIn, but don’t really do much with either. I set up a Twitter account, but really just don’t get the point. Flickr, Posterous, Delicious, YouTube, Vimeo … how do I keep up? Sound familiar? Does it all make you a wee bit jumpy? It may be a trend, but it’s not [...]
I think I might have been a social media geek before social media was cool. Ten years ago I was active in a Yahoo group comprised of Mac-based graphic designers and prepress people. As online relationships started to build, the list became more of a free-for-all where people talked about their personal lives, bashed Windows [...]
On February 12, more than 200 cities worldwide hosted Twestival, a Twitter-organized get-together to raise funds and awareness for charity:water, a nonprofit that brings clean, safe water to developing nations. Jim and I attended the Memphis Twestival at Fox & Hound on Sanderlin. According to charitywater.org, Twestival raised $250,000 for clean water. In mid-April, the team drilled [...]
Thanks to The United Methodist Reporter for the excellent story, Twittering Churches: United Methodists Connect Through Social Networking, by staff writer Bill Fentum. Bill’s article highlights Methodist congregations that use social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The Reporter, a national publication, recently interviewed me about my thoughts on social media in the church [...]
Just for Fun: Are You a Geek or a Nerd?: Since I love technology, I'm often called a geek by fri ... posted on January 13, 2012
Writing: Forget What Your Teacher Taught You: Marko Saric’s excellent post, 6 Ways Your English Teach ... posted on January 24, 2012
Mobile Marketing Goodness: Chili’s: It's easier than ever to use QR codes in marketing, but ... posted on January 18, 2012
iPad2: One Week Later: I know most people do the unboxing post much sooner, bu ... posted on March 19, 2011
Bucket List Item: The Northern Lights: I have a weird obsession with the Northern Lights. It's ... posted on January 25, 2012
Devotional written for Memphis Center for Urban Theological Studies “Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So [...]
