The Digital Sanctuary

Again, a special thanks to Catalyst & Leadership Network for giving a dozen of us bloggers the opportunity to simulcast “The Nines“.
Yesterday’s simulcast, the landmark event featuring some of today’s most well known Christian leadership, was amazingly successful if you measure success in terms of numbers of viewers.   As you can see from the visual, [...]

As promised, the live simulcast of “The Nines”, a landmark event featuring some of today’s most well known Christian leadership commences.  Watch here live all day (Wednesday) to see 9 hours of 9 minute interviews with some of the United States’ most influential Christian authors, pastors, bloggers, scholars & communicators.
Special thanks to Catalyst & [...]

We are just two days away from The Nines, a 100% online, 100% free, conference for church leaders this Wednesday, September 9th, 2009.
Catalyst is partnering with Leadership Network to provide us with this first time ever free event.
Todd Rhoades of Leadership Network &  Monday Morning Insight answered some of our FAQ’s recently on The Show, and [...]

Leadership Network is offering a free church conference online called THE NINES on (you guessed it) 09/09/09 at 9:09am CST.
You’ll get to hear from 47+ speakers all in one day!
Each will each spend 9 minutes giving their best leadership advice.
A tiny preview of the speakers includes:
* Mark Batterson :: National Community Church
* Dave Ferguson :: [...]

I got the privilege of speaking a bit at The Sticky Church Conference in Chicago last Tuesday.  Mary Beth Stockdale, a dear friend on the Suncrest Christian Church leadership team, hosted a Social Media breakout.  In fact, a couple of other friends were invited via Tokbox including Tony Steward of Lifechurch.tv and DJ Chuang of [...]

Just arrived back in sunny Los Angeles after navigating the ice storm in Dallas that created some complications at the Innovation3 gathering.  Transportation became a substantial issue since most roads were frozen over.  Thanks to these people specifically for getting us around Sherry Surratt, Rhett Smith, Rick Smith, Lance Bauslaugh & DJ Chuang. I like [...]

The Innovation3 gathering is generating quite a bit of  twitter buzz and you can follow along if you are on Twitter at @innovation3 and/or follow the hashtag #i3.  Here’s a shot of Catalyst mastermind Brad Lomenick being interviewed by Tony Morgan.

And below Kent Shaffer (aka Church Relevance) who is….

uploading, processing, analyzing, and, of course, memorizing, [...]

Good thing we’re all wearing name tags!  The place is packed with people whose teachings we watch on tv, or whose books we buy, whose blogs we read and those we know virtually, etc.  It’s confusing to keep everyone straight.
It’s pretty well known that conferences, in general, are becoming increasingly unpopular.  The reasons are numerous.  [...]

There’s a lot of excitement today as Christian leaders from all over gather in Dallas to celebrate the 25th year of the Leadership Network.
Leadership Network fosters church innovation and growth through strategies, programs, tools and resources consistent with their far-reaching mission: to identify, connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their impact.
Leadership Network’s “DNA” is [...]

As Innovation3 approaches I’m looking forward to hearing from a handful of the most innovative female Christian leaders we can gather all in one place as Dallas hosts the Leadership Network’s Innovation3 Gathering!  Since, I’ve been invited to live blog the event along with Tony Morgan and Carlos Whittaker, you’ll hear more details soon.  But [...]