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Does Your Church Use New Media?

A short update I sent yesterday  sparked a small conversation on Twitter and inspired a blog post by Heather Rast, Market Where Your Audiences Are. I tweeted this after receiving this text message from Jon Johnson, pastor of my church: Please don’t forget this Sunday is Food Pantry Sunday. Food is running low and we [...]

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Hawaii Tourism Authority breaks the mold with a bloggers fam tour

The “fam tour” or “familiarization tour” is standard practice by which tourism boards and Convention and Visitor’s Bureaus (CVBs) introduce their destinations to media people. In the past, such tours have been filled with only print and broadcast media representatives. Not any more. One example in progress right now is the “So Much More Hawaii” [...]

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Twitter and the Dunbar Number

I’ve never been in the camp of those who follow back every one who adds them on social networks. While the reason people reciprocate all follows-it does seem the polite thing to do-is understandable, I know I’ll never be able to have any kind of meaningful interaction with all of them (over 6,000 now on [...]

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Tips for South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) from a local

It’s that time of year again, when the tech universe is abuzz with the digital creative delights of the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference in Austin, Texas. Since I live in the Austin metro area and this is my third “South by,” I thought I’d update last year’s post on why SXSWi is like [...]

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