During the Faiths Act Fellowship, I was hosted by Islamic Networks Group (ING), an educational organization that promotes religious literacy and mutual respect. When the Fellowship ended, I came on board as a consultant. One of the first projects that I wrapped my head around was a mobile app. The CEO wanted a mobile app [...]
Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Ted Haggard says “The internet is forever.”
September 17th, 2010
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Ted Haggard Ted Haggard, as some of you may recall, was the head guy of the National Association of Evangelicals as well as pastor of New Life Church. He was a pretty popular dude. That is, of course, until a sex scandal took him down. Now he’s back on the upswing – he’s happy, his [...]
Multitasking? Let’s call it “project management”
September 9th, 2010
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Not gonna happen Multitasker? I call bullshit. My last post was an accidental review of PBS Frontline’s “Digital Nation”, where some really savvy reporters travel around listening to tech-heads and educators and regular folks trying to figure out, in grand Double Rainbow fashion, what our reliance on technology in daily life really means. I had [...]
PBS Frontline – Digital Nation
September 6th, 2010
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Are our brains changing? “Over the past 20 years, the net has changed from a thing one does to the way one lives.” – Doug Rushkoff, Digital Nation I made it a point to sit myself down for 90 full minutes and watch PBS Frontline’s “Digital Nation”. The video played in full-screen so that I [...]
Living “off” the web – The Incursion Lifestyle
July 20th, 2010
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I fully expect this to happen. My Droid X is in the mail. It’s a phone that happens to do internet things in a groovy way. It can also spawn multiple copies of itself that morph into common household appliances. I made up that last part. Having a smartphone (in the Droid’s case, a superphone) [...]
Digital Social Contract, Part 1
July 16th, 2010
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The Internet King A lot of writers talk the web’s effect on how we communicate and collaborate and all kinds of other things. I’m more concerned with how the web is changing society and what it means for our future togetherness and apartness. Let’s drag up the old term “social contract” and stick the word [...]
Posted in Blog every day challenge, politics, social media | Tags: social media, society, technology
Book review: Quick Bites by Rick Bakas
July 7th, 2010
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This is a real picture of my face and Rick’s book We have all seen blog posts like these: 10 Strategies to be a Better Blogger 9 Social Media Power Tips 15 Ways to Engage Your Audience Online 744 Beautiful Uses for Bacon Rick Bakas, the Director of Social Media Marketing at St. Supery Vineyards, [...]
Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding
June 24th, 2010
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My friends over at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs have put together a sweet project called Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding. I got hooked up with the project at the Interfaith Youth Core‘s conference last October. I was presenting a workshop on social web tools and [...]
Posted in Blog every day challenge, interfaith, social media | Tags: interfaith, social media, technology
What can Millennials really bring to the table?
November 9th, 2009
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What are Millennials good for? How can we (you) use them (me)? Christina Smith from YourMembership.com, Inc. recently posted on the Nonprofit Technology Network’s blog to look into that question. It’s called “Tapping into the Strengths of a Generation – The Millennials“, and it’s a good place to start. What follows are my comments on [...]
From: Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Keys to Building a Successful Nonprofit Web Site
July 13th, 2009
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I especially liked #4, which is one of the things that I’m proud to have helped The 1010 Project with: 4) Make Yourself Easy to Find on the Social Web Sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube (know about the new nonprofit call to action), LinkedIn and Flickr are becoming exceedingly important to any nonprofits online presence. [...]
Posted in nonprofit, social media, writings | Tags: nonprofit, social media, technology, the 1010 project, writings
