I always wonder what the average person thinks about the number of hits, followers, friends, and subscribers people get on social networking sites and blogs. In many ways they are a legitimate form of recognizing those who have had “success” in various venues. In other ways they are just another way for us to be [...]

Well after being gone over the weekend and first part of this week, I’m back…with a whole new look. Come on over to the site if you are reading this in an RSS feed.
For those of you who care about what happened, I basically switched from a Wordpress.com hosted blog, to a self-hosted blog using [...]

Scott McClellan is the editor of Collide Magazine, an online magazine that focuses on technology and Christian faith. Last week he wrote an article for the magazine titled “How to Fail at Social Media.” A pretty catchy title if you ask me.
I’ve been called out for being a “social media cop” plenty of times before [...]

When I first started blogging I made it a goal to post once a day, except on Sundays. Most weeks it feels pretty manageable, with the danger always being writing something just for the sake of meeting the goal. I never want to do post something if it doesn’t have some type of a purpose.
Starting [...]

I’ve said it plenty of times…social media has a lot of power and a lot of positives. I referred to some of the positives in this post a few months ago.
With all the power for positives in social media, there is an equal and maybe greater power for negative influence. I saw a couple things [...]

Writing the demise of social media reminded me of all the “mistakes” I’ve made in social media in the past. I say “mistakes” partly because there are a lot of things I would do differently, but also because when the heart behind the mistakes is right, they aren’t totally mistakes (at least in social media…that [...]