Moving toward something bigger than myself.
Welcome. I write for church leaders on topics like strategy and communication. Since this is your first visit, don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed.Wow. It’s been a while. I’ve been crazy-busy since getting back from Costa. Between catching up on church work, preparing for our new Wednesday evening schedule, getting back in the [...]
I just spent about 30 minutes talking with a client who is being harrassed by her previous website vendor. I won’t name the web company with which she is dealing, but let’s just say they’re less than professional.
The issue arose when she decided to switch to Updatable (my company) from her previous web company. At [...]
I use the term “minister” with the purpose of being interdenominational. This post is about me wearing two hats; church & business.
The first time I read/heard about intentionally bi-vocational ministers was while reading a book by George Barna called Revolution. It’s a book that’s much like his other books. It’s based on research that tells [...]
Guy Kawasaki just posted a “Formal Announcement” of Alltop, the popurls.com-like website that funnels “all the top content from around the web” into one place for easy consumption. The site publicizes content from all of the most valuable websites and puts it on one page that’s categorized by topic.
My personal favorite is the Social Media [...]
Amidst the changes at Updatable, we started a new company blog. However, it’s not a normal company blog. We’re going to cover marketing, small business, and web technology; not our latest products enhancement. If you’re a blogger, church leader, or entrepreneur, then you’ll find something interesting there.
We’re going to be sticking to 200 words or [...]
Exciting things are happening lately at Updatable. In fact, there’s so much sweet stuff going on that I haven’t had much time to post something worth your time to read. Ever since Maki over at Dosh Dosh wrote a post about effective blogging, What You Don’t Publish Defines Your Site, I’ve been more cautious about [...]
I just finished a book by John Kotter called Leading Change [buy it here]. Mr. Kotter walks through The Eight-Stage Process of Creating Major Change. Here’s a quick summary with a digestible translation of each objective.
Establish a sense of urgency. Know the size of your immediate mission field or market and identify/discuss real and potential [...]
This concept, although given to me from my spiritual leader, is profitable and applicable to all leaders, both in churches and in business.
I was in a meeting with my pastor yesterday to go over the new designs and video bumper we’re using for the upcoming series. We both enjoy discussing ministry philosophy and church strategy [...]
“Bill Reichert, a managing director of Garage, likes to tell entrepreneurs that the odds of raising venture capital are equal to the odds of getting struck by lightning while standing on the bottom of a swimming pool on a sunny day. He’s exaggerating. The odds aren’t that good.” Guy Kawasaki; The Art of the Start
The [...]
I follow a handful of worthy, talented, intelligent bloggers. Brian Bailey is one of them. Last week, he posted about a project that his family was working on. As always, I was painfully curious. Anything coming from an entire family of Baileys must be good if he can write something as useful and insightful as [...]
Me & Erica in Litomerice, CZ