Category: YMX
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Reflections on Online Community
Last week I sat in on Kent Shaffer’s session on “Communicating without Words” at the Internet Ministry Conference. And tucked deep in the session were his “7 Steps for [creating/managing] an Online Community” After all, if Seth Godin said this is one his top new jobs of the future, it’s worth talking about. I wanted…
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Review of Remedy by David Crowder Band
This weekend I had a chance to finish my review of Remedy. Of course that’s a good thing since the CD comes out Tuesday and we really push to get reviews published before the CD actually comes out. About this review, I’ll just say that it wasn’t an easy one to be concise on. This…
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Working Together to Teach Students
Recently I submitted an article to our ministry friends at Simply Youth Ministry about communicating a single complimentary message from the church as opposed to many competing messages. And I am pleased to see that they have decided to publish it. Here’s a sneak peak: On a staff retreat last summer, a light bulb went…
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Some smokin’ stuff at Youth Ministry Exchange
With fall in full swing all over, things at YMX are rockin’ along. And I don’t just mean the forum community, but all over at YMX things are doing quite well. We’ve got better content than ever, better access to artists and new music, better reviews of books and other stuff, and quite nice free…
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The Matrix of Goal Achievment
It’s one thing to have goals It’s another thing to hear the language of goal realization. And it’s another thing to be able to show your team that you are, in fact, achieving your goals. (See picture) See, somewhat meaningful to say "Let’s meet our goal" and it’s indeed significant to hear your team say…
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2 More Reasons I Love Being a Part of Youth Ministry Exchange
Sometimes I am just in awe of the group of people God has put together at YMX. Patti and I were chatting tonight about it and two words come to mind… "amazing" and "humbling." It seems our little place on the internet… a virtual world… is bringing about real results in members lives. Here are…
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New Innovation: Youth Ministry Classifieds
Over at Youth Ministry Exchange Headquarters Patti Gibbons and I had a board meeting where we decided to launch a brand new line of business. In truth, Patti and I chat over AIM all the time and we came up with this idea Friday morning and ran with it. We don’t have an office and…
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Site issues at YMX
From a site development perspective, we’ve had a couple very stable years at YMX. That seems to be unraveling right now because two major groups of people aren’t getting along in the "open source" world. The people at Joomla and Simplemachines aren’t co-developing a bridge anymore. To existing members, they may notice a couple of…
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When Goals Wake You Up
A lot of people make goals and set benchmarks. I am the same way. No matter what area of my life, I hear a little birdie telling me "You need to get ____ done by _____ to know that you are accomplishing ____ goal." I’m not sure where it originated but I that little birdie…
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Mike Yaconelli’s 65th Birthday
I’m sure at least half of the people who will read this won’t get why I’m posting this. I caught this over at Think Christian and I thought it was a tribute worth looking at again. Mike was the founder of Youth Specialties and a guy who made a lot of people think differently about…