Media Outreach

What percentage of first time guests visit your website before they come on a Sunday morning ?

Towards the end of April I went to Exponential 09 and got to hang with some amazing people. I asked a few of them this question. What percentage of people do you think visit your website before they come on a Sunday morning ? This is what they said. What do you think ? Check [...]

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H.E.L.P. makes things different

Last year I was at a conference where Leonard Sweet was speaking. He said something that has stuck in my head ever since.  He said. Jesus didn’t come to make a difference, He came to make things different. Chris Marlow with H.E.L.P. is making things different for children in Zimbabwe, and He has some BHAG’s. [...]

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Link Love

Kem Meyer talks about “Making a connection calls for change…” “The amount of change in marketing over the past 3–5 years probably equals the amount of change over the past 30 years.” Robert Liodice, CEO, Association of National Advertisers You don’t believe it? Consider this truth. Three years ago Facebook didn’t exist. Today it’s the [...]

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Support Tech Support!

We know it’s pretty much normal that we only notice the tech people when things are bad. In fact, you may not even talk to them unless you need something or something is broke. And having worked with a bunch of tech guys and having done tech work, it is a pretty thankless job at [...]

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Time Management: The Law of Priority

Ok, so we’ve talked about (in the two previous articles) the difference between what is urgent and what is important and how to help to make those things happen.  We have also talked about multitasking, focus and how to make an effective to do list.  Really all of this stuff comes out of the same [...]

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Ministries you should check out: Angel Food Ministries

I had the privilege of hanging with some really great people doing some awesome things for the Church at Exponential 09. One of them was Amy Mills from Angel Food Ministries. Watch the video to find out a little bit more about what Angel Food Ministries is about… The low down – about $30 bucks [...]

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Time Management: Multi-tasking, To-do’s, and Focus

If you are anything like me, I may be talking on the phone, receiving and responding to texts and emails, getting an IM, putting one person on hold to let the other important person know that you need 15 more minutes before you can meet and all with 15 uncompleted projects in opened windows on [...]

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Time Management: Urgent vs. Important

I just need a little more time in the day.  I wish I could count the number of times that I have said this in the last several months … probably years.  The great poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson, said that time was, “a maniac, scattering dust.” It has been called “all-devouring, all-destroying” and “the wreckful [...]

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Writing Better Tweets

If you’re an avid tweeter, then here are some tips on how to write better tweets from an article I read on ComputerWorld.com 140 characters isn’t much. In fact, it’s very few words and sometimes difficult to put a complete thought in 140 characters or less. Tip #1: Avoid abbreviations. Don’t assume that people will [...]

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What I wish all web designers were like (behind the scenes of faithHighway – not really but it should be)

My friend Tony Chimento sent this out on twitter early this morning (the guys at vimeo made it a few months back) and I figured I would post it up on the blog. Too funny.

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