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The leader doesn’t fit the led. When a 50 year old man gets fed up with his church and starts his own church to [...]
Today’s article is the third in a three-part series on being remarkable. The first two are here:
Being Remarkable: What it’s Not [1 of 3]
Being Remarkable: What it is [2 of 3]
Today, we’re going to look at some helps, hints, and hacks to help your blog be remarkable.
Offering value on a regular basis is no [...]
I posted an article on Wednesday about being remarkable and some common misconceptions about it. Today’s article will discuss the true essence of being remarkable. The final claim of the previous article was that there is one reality that dictates how remarkable your blog or church will be. Drum-roll please.
Value.
People remark about things that place [...]
I posted an article on the Updatable blog last week about Seth Godin’s book, Purple Cow, but deleted it immediately. I also posted it here on ReadScott.com for about 30 seconds before realizing that the article sucked altogether and didn’t belong anywhere. You may have seen it in your feed reader and, if so, I [...]
Preaching, like blogging, is a specific art. It takes planning, thoughtfulness, creativity, and sustainability to communicate on a regular basis. The similarities are so plentiful that I needed to make a chart for it.
I strongly believe that church leaders should take every possible chance to communicate with whoever will listen. Blogging is one of the [...]
Quick & dirty: I’ve got readers who are in student ministry. So, I figured it was appropriate to get the point-of-view of someone who knows a thing or two about students. Check the image (=>) for a short bio on Terrace.
This interview concerns communication with a young, connected generation.
Me: How has social networking effected the [...]
I’ve had several 3-question interviews on my blog in the past month [Seth Godin, Darren Rowse, David Putman, Tim Wall, Brian Bailey, & Scott Hodge]. I like this format for a few reasons.
The participants are aware of exactly what they’re getting in to. There are no hidden agendas, I assure them that their answers will [...]
David Putman serves as one of the pastors at Mountain Lake Church. He also founded ChurchPlanters.com (with Shawn Lovejoy) in 2006, quickly growing it to become one of America’s largest church planting organizations. ChurchPlanters.com exists to gives church planters and church planting leaders permission to do what it takes to reach people who are disconnected [...]
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 [...]
Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net, a blog about how to make money blogging, posted today about the value of traffic that comes from social media sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, etc. [Quick explanation: Social media sites are sites that are used to spread news virally to thousands of people in a very short amount of time. [...]
Me & Erica in Litomerice, CZ