The Digital Sanctuary

Remember way back when, when we all voted on panels for SxSW?
Videos of today’s SxSW gathering are already hitting YouTube.  Thanks Tony Steward for streaming live on your iPhone.
Technology For Results, Not Profits featured a couple of the LifeChurch.tv digerati, Terry Storch & Bobby Grunewald, engaging audience members on ways nonprofits can maintain and even [...]

My great friends at Fellowship One Technologies hosting the Dynamic Church Conference (DC10) are offering a $50.00 off deal!  This is an unbeatable opportunity for all those happy campers who use F1 technologies and those interested in doing so.
DC10 is a three-day educational event focused on teaching users and developers how to effectively leverage Fellowship [...]

Beloved Catalyst West comes to SoCal again this year and if you act now (like today) you can still get in on the early bird discount registration.  Hold these dates – April 21-23 and plan to hit Orange County for one of the most inspiring gatherings next generation leaders can experience. Most importantly, you can [...]

Several months back, Relevant Magazine’s Neue Quarterly released the article Multi-Conversation, a three-part conversation on plurality in the Kingdom.  The piece is designed to be an exploration of new trends in church development.  Exploring multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-site movements, perfectly normal church planter Earl Creps, absolute wild-man pastor Shaun King and myself all review and [...]

Worship Leader magazine just emailed me announcing that DJ Chuang will join the company as Network Developer.   Although I forgot to blog it, I got the privilege of writing for Worship Leader last summer  (Cynthia Ware – Worship Leader’s Toolbox) and have been so impressed with their persistent and ongoing focus on the use of [...]

Zappos is a growing company with a unique culture, an innovative marketing style, and a brilliant reputation.  Compared to most young upstart companies, it’s pretty amazing what they’ve accomplished.
In 10 years Zappos has grown from “nothing” into a billion dollar industry leader, no small feat if you’re just selling shoes!  When this happens in business, [...]

Exciting news to report from the YouVersion Team.  (thanks @tonysteward)
They’ve just launched 20+ Bible reading plans across their website and their mobile applications.
Although there have been lists and plans out there for while, this is the first time they’ve integrated them into a free Bible platform that offers so many different translations/languages and is on [...]

Dallas Theological Seminary’s Center for Christian Leadership is hosting Shane Hipps, author of Flickering Pixels (my review), for a one day conference in Dallas called The Electronic Gospel: How Technology Shapes Our Faith on February 8th, 2010. Here’s the official description:
A conference about engaging technology with discernment, creativity, and purpose as you articulate the [...]

Marketing gurus Phil Cooke and Brad Abare appeared in a livestream chat this morning on Conversant Life.  These guys are two of the most sought-after consultants in the field of church and religious media communications.
Hearing them talk about Christians / media / church / communication / change / effectiveness is amazing because of the way [...]

Special thanks to Tim Schraeder for his impressions / interpretations of some of the concepts / dialog / challenges our session raised at Story 09.  And thank you to the participants who came to our breakout.  Were you there?  You’ll see some of your comments and input here in Tim’s notes.
Social Media Pulse What [...]