Marketing Genius

I received a copy of the “Marketing Genius” book summary this week. I think it has an interesting little snippet about mapping the current environment. They look at the following:
Hot Spots – This is where demand converges and everybody wants to play (for example, all phone companies want to deliver multi-media capabilities).
Cool Places [...]

Tags: Church, Missions

Last Week at LeadNow

Do you know about the RightNow Campaign? Great group of people. Check out their website. I was at the LeadNow event they put on last week and took following note.
Here they are… raw and unedited from my Blackberry.
Dan Kimball
Does not see himself as a confrontive person, but sometimes it can happen.
Matthew 2:1-5. [...]

Tags: Church

Got a Kindle

Yes, I know, early adopter, shameless consumerism, etc. But I love reading. I want to read more. I need to read to live (well, not really).
After some months of thinking about what a terrible price point the Kindle has, I got one. In the past few hours I have purchased a [...]

Tags: Kindle

Podcast Shownotes - Movements

World Christian Podcast - Click here to listen
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS and ACORNS
(Note: This material is largely based on the work of Gerlach and Hines, cited at the end of this article.)
Something that fascinates many people is the idea of movements and how they form, and how they are generated; in fact, I’ve decided to do [...]

Tags: Orgs and Movements

I am spending this week…

I am spending this week at a couple of conferences. For the past few days I’ve been at the Exponential conference, and tonight I head over to the Lead Now conference. Both of these are in Orlando, and I will let you know some of the things that I’ve been learning about while I’m here. [...]

Tags: Travel and Conferences

Laotian People Movement

The following text is from a newsletter I received last week from an indigenous Thai ministry. This ministry is reaching out across the border in Laos. The media and Hollywood actors are portraying Buddhism as a peaceful, loving religion. The persecution noted below is a direct result of Buddhist adherents.
It is important [...]

Tags: Orgs and Movements, Persecution

Creative Teams

Sometimes you need to accomplish a job and you can’t do it with the usual list of suspects. These are tasks that require artistry and sophistication, not just brute, managerial force. Such was the case a few years ago when I was tasked with managing a team that would create a video resource [...]

What’s the ROI on your giving?

If you raise funds for any kind of non-profit venture, you will no doubt have noticed a sea of change in how people give. I am not talking about the “I give online” movement - that’s a change in methodology only. I mean, “What are people willing to give to these days?”
The predominate [...]