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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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 seen...