The Digital Sanctuary

Those of us who use Twitter as our primary instant messaging system (and rolodex, and news channel, and social networking site, and life-streaming host, and water cooler, etc.) got a substantial dose of blackout this morning as Twitter simply….. well….. evaporated.
No Fail Whale, no worm, no ice cream (iScream) nothin’.  My primary communication vehicle was [...]

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 [...]

Backstage Interview: Marcia Graham by Cynthia Ware from The Foursquare Church on Vimeo.
As far as I know, the Foursquare Church is the first denomination to use Twitter, the micro-blogging platform, to support it’s annual National Convention.  You can follow  @WeAreFoursquare & @FoursquareEvent for ongoing status updates from Connection ‘09.  We’ll be here until Friday.
Also, the [...]

Although the list below is hardly exhaustive (in fact, it’s a very rough start), I want to crowd source it so we can get a more concise record of the twitterers who were/are talking about The Idea Camp.  Of course you can search @theideacamp or #theideacamp, but if you twittered about the event, please represent [...]

In an attempt to document the migration back and forth between offline and online communications, it’s worth noting that a handful of Christian organizations are taking advantage of micro-blogging (a relatively new form of life streaming) and setting up Twitter accounts for their “followers”.  Of course, they’re not the only ones.  Twitter is also being [...]

Friday is the day I often point to scholars who specialize in the study of media & the church.  This series of Friday posts entitled, Blog of the Weekend, is designed to cover a broad spectrum of world class teachers, researchers & scholars who assess the impact and influence of technology/media on Christianity.
This week is [...]

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 [...]

Today I’m presenting “Leveraging Technology to Support Community” at the Group Life Conference.  I’ll upload it to SlideShare when I have time so you can access it.  My experience at Willow Creek has been amazing and being with scores of people who are desperate to learn how to serve others better has been invigorating.
Yesterday, in [...]

Actually, maybe there is a better alternative than Twitter for intra-staff instant communications. Yammer is something to consider if you believe the TechCrunch Top 50 folks know their stuff.  But first a bit of history.
It was somewhere back about 15 years ago that I was on a church staff where the top dozen or so [...]