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what creatives need….

What do creatives in your organization, church or business need?  Not ALWAYS the top of the line equipment (although I must confess, having 16g’s of ram and 8 processor mac does help tremendously).  What they DO need is the freedom to create, experiment, dream and at times fail.  Case in point, the video below. Shot [...]

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using bumptop?

Friend of mine mentioned this program to me, and I’m curious if some have used it yet.  As I’m watching the vid below I’m thinking of tons of different uses for it.  There’s a free version and a pro version.  You can check it out here: http://bumptop.com/mac/

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super bowl XLIV powerpoint game

warning: totally shameless plug about to follow. If you’re looking for a powerpoint game to use at Super Bowl parties, events or student ministry services, we’ve created one over at our 4ThoughtMedia.com site.  Check it.

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Little or no budget? Innovate.

Love stuff like this.  With everyone it seems experiencing cutbacks in budgets, including creative media budgets, it pushes us to a couple of options.  One option is to sit back, and say what we can’t do.  The other is to ask “what can we do?”.  Innovation is often limited by leadership that is 1. focused [...]

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outdoor projection

Thanks Ken for the heads up on this.  Love how they utilize projection on a building (check it out here).  Thinking through applications for message series, advertising, etc.  If you have a structure in an area with a decent amount of traffic, what a great use of space.

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U2 on YouTube…in case you missed it

Here’s the video of the U2 Concert on YouTube.  Couple of hours long so you may want to pull up a chair…or sofa

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thank you U2…and You Tube

Just an incredible online experience and exceptional quality.  If this was a beta test for anything, I would say it was a home run.  Of course, the fact that they are one of my favorite bands helped the experience.  On the technical side, I was VERY impressed. I watched the whole experience from my DSL [...]

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couple of On The Ridge Campus photos

Here are a couple of photos (compliments of Nick – Ridge Campus Pastor) of the worship center at Cedar Creek On the Ridge in Ridge Spring.  For those that don’t know, this is our second multi-site campus about to launch within the next few weeks.  It was very cool to see the reaction of those [...]

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to reach people that no one is reaching….

…you have to do things that no one is doing.  The message doesn’t change but the methods MUST.  Check out this clip from Craig Groeschel.

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Twitter in Ministry

Had a chance earlier this week to speak with Kelly Jasper with the Augusta Chronicle for an article in today’s paper.  The article was on the use of social media in ministry, in particular Twitter.  You can check it out here.  At the bottom of the article, they give a listing of local pastors and [...]

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