The Digital Sanctuary

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As more and more leaders and influencers explore the benefits of the relationship economy by participating in social networks, services like LinkedIn increase in value.
Advertising Age, for example, has just released data offering clearer definition about who uses LinkedIn and what they’re using the service to accomplish.  Although it was originally designed as a [...]

TechCrunch reports today:
“Facebook blew past MySpace in visitors from across the world back in April, but the global gap continues to widen.  According to the latest figures from comScore, Facebook attracted 161.1 million unique visitors worldwide in September, compared 117.9 million for MySpace. For Facebook, that number was up from 4.7 percent from the 153.9 million [...]

Here’s a couple of different screen shots of the Unifyer tool a bunch of us are adopting.  We’re using it specifically to connect the community of Church innovators who will be part of the upcoming book, Church 2.0, authored by Greg Atkinson (plus a couple of technology chapters thrown in by me and Tony Steward, [...]

There’s so much exciting news in the world of the socially networked church right now, it’s hard to keep it all straight.  One of the most important pieces of information I got this week is the one above.
Check out the wording “not a ROOV Facebook app”.  Sounds more significant than just another app, huh?  Maybe [...]

Faith communities are responding to the social media revolution.  Churches are leveraging online technology and attracting the attention of even the most seasoned participatory media veterans and experts. (i.e. Chris Brogan on Social Media Pastor)
As Christian leaders grow increasingly well-educated about opportunities for both intra-congregational communications and missional/outreach connections, certain options stand out.  Unifyer is [...]

Chris Brogan provides a great list of 50 online Applications & Sites to Consider, well-organized and concise, to use for handy reference. 
I'd add Tweetdeck and TwitPic to the Miscellaneous category and put in a category for good aggregators (i.e. – Alltop).  What would you add?
Blogging
Blogger – free blogging and hosting.
Movable [...]

The recent Southern California minor earthquake caused a flurry of tweets in the twitterverse.  This is what it looks like on a Twitter-graph.

Twitter, the micro-blogging or social messaging service (SMS) has been embraced by communication's early adopters but hasn't spread in terms of mainstream acceptability yet.  In fact, according to Wikipedia, Twitter has only 2,200,000 [...]

Rhett Smith, has been the college director for the last many years at Bel Air Presbyterian Church.  Over the course of his tenure he has been dreaming and thinking a lot about the desire for, and need for connecting those involved in college ministry (i.e. pastors, directors, volunteers, etc.).  Rhett says that although there are [...]

First Monday, an online, peer-reviewed journal, published the article – The Augmented Social Network: building identity and trust into the next-generation Internet by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster.
The authors describe the future of the internet as an evolution from online experimentation and fads to stabilizing trends creating reliability, [...]