The Digital Sanctuary

Open, Open, Open!
There’s a seriously substantial piece of “Church Online” news this week.
Buckhead Church, home of master communicator, Andy Stanley, (who founded North Point Ministries) is launching an online church experience site on August 16th.   The advantage of knowing about it now is that you can participate in all the beta testing and insider info [...]

The SXSW Music and Media Conference (aka SXSW) is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas.   It was a SXSW that I first began to track the news of a little tiny newbie microblogging service called Twitter.  Well, after Austin began to tweet, the [...]

The blogosphere will be missing a couple of faithful bloggers over the next season.  Heather Whittaker (aka Whittakerwoman) and Crystal Renaud (aka PinkHairedGirl) both long-term bloggers are on blogging sabbaticals of indefinite length.
Heather, one of the sweetest gals ever and wife of well-known North Point – Buckhead Campus worship leader Carlos Whittaker, is going to [...]

Look who’s using MyAlltop.com
Well there’s a first time for everything.  Kem Meyer just posted on Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop and since I’m such a fan of the site (and Guy for that matter), I am reposting her post in it’s entirety.
For the first time in my 5 years of blogging, I’m copying.  It’s worth it because [...]

I just noticed that one of my colleagues, Dallas local, Rhett Smith, just posted on something that’s been percolating behind the scenes for awhile now – the Cultivate Conference.
In fact, Dawn Nicole Baldwin of Aspire One and Jarbyco, just alerted me that registration has just opened up.   There’s no doubt this is going to [...]

Gurus User-group from Church Tech Talk on Vimeo.
This simple video is an invitation to the Gurus User Group event to be hosted by The Rock in Louisville, KY  on July 13 – 15, 2009.
The video, which I really like (a la Common Craft), says that whether your role is stage design, bulletin graphics, podcasting, video [...]