MethoBlogroll Mirror Test : technology

churches doing twitter wrong : churches can do twitter well

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

i am constantly frustrated with church folks who extol their social media use for their churches. one such statement is the proverbial "our church is on twitter." i am not sure what that means? how is a church on twitter?......(read more)

i am all a twitter about the news : bud adams gets me air time

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:27:54 GMT

so i was rather surprised last night when i get a call from one of my youth. i apparently was on the news.. or rather, my twitter was on the news. yup, christian who does the social media & news......(read more)

The Call to #ChurchSocial…..does it work?

Theoblogical — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:03:46 GMT

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we're all gonna die : so who is your digital executor

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:16:27 GMT

saturday i spent my day at barcamp nashville 2009. barcamp is one of my fav days of the year. that along with podcamp are when i get to really hang with the geeks of nashville's tech community. one of the......(read more)

chris brogan on evangelism : being there before the sale

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:32:00 GMT

chris brogan : be there before the sale : relationship in marketing & evangelism from Gavin Richardson on Vimeo. so i took in that live web event last week with chris brogan and i've been pondering on some of what......(read more)

chris brogan & trust agents : stories & philosophy of social media

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:52:33 GMT

today i spent my morning (and greater part of the rest of the day) with chris brogan. if you do not know who chris is, my quick description would be that he is the mayor of twitter & one of......(read more)

church in second life : religion and ethics expose

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:01:49 GMT

stumbled across this story covering the various church & spiritual experiences found in secondlife. i've chronicled here many times my happenings in secondlife. its been a few months since i 'hung out' there so it was like seeing an old...(read more)

theology of twitter : spirituality and social media

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:39:45 GMT

emergent conversant, fellow social media friend, steve knight put together this presentation on a theology of twitter. it has some great content. maybe the greatest content is him quoting me from my spirituality and social media series i did with......(read more)

ministry tool you might not have heard of : new tech for the old tool

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:39:22 GMT

United Methodist Reporter & Variable Print as a Ministry Tool from Gavin Richardson on Vimeo. note: i will be open about this one, i sit on the board for the united methodist reporter communications so i'm a bit biased that......(read more)

the persona of gavin richardson : filed under cool stuff

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:36:04 GMT

one of my hendersonville geek buds, darren crawford, tipped me off to this quick piece of coolness. basically its an mit project that compiles the various persona's associated with your name on the internet. it was really cool to see......(read more)

youth ministry's future : glimpse of youth ministry in the year 2400

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:26:55 GMT

so i don't usually write fiction, let alone, sci-fi type fiction, but when ken asked if i would contribute to the upcoming issue of the reporter (which is focusing on youth culture & youth ministry issues) i felt honored to......(read more)

telling stories on missions : sharing experiences with congregations

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:40:00 GMT

how to use social media to share your ministry story with home congregation & ministry partners from Gavin Richardson one of the things that social media has allowed myself & you the lay web designer to do is easily share......(read more)

social media love song : it aint no joke.. well, maybe it is

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:39:00 GMT

how can i resist a country music song extrapolating the ills of a man trying to meet a woman via social media. many thanks to john for unearthing this one...(read more)

where faith is going wrong in social media : life without pants & a little bit of south park

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:56:40 GMT

the last of my four installments guest posting at matt cheuvront's "life without pants" blog on spirituality & social media is out for the world to see titled "where faith gets it wrong." i bring back some thoughts you've...(read more)

some things are still just fun : revisiting one of the things

Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd by Gavin Richardson — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:40:00 GMT

as i am catching up on the blogosphere & other feeds i was reading up on josh browns continued dismay with social media. i get his sentiment.. it had me thinking then of some of the stuff that made the......(read more)