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Open Source Book Club | Cognitive Surplus

A couple weeks ago at re:create conference in Franklin, TN the conversation was ripe for bringing up a book that came to my attention a year ago when I saw Clay Shirky speak at SXSWi (check out my notes from this mind blowing talk and listen to the audio). The book is called Cognitive Surplus [...]

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Christmas Watch List #1 | Gary Vaynerchuck

*It’s Christmas and you’re going to find yourself sitting around doing nothing a lot next week, so all this week I’m building the Christmas Watch List of online videos you need to watch. Here’s the playlist on YouTube. I Consult with a lot of churches so for the most part I don’t post a lot [...]

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The Book All Pastors Need to Read | Cognitive Surplus

Don’t read my book, read Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus. If you’re a pastor, read it now. Like right now. I saw Clay Shirky speak at SXSWi this last March and it completely blew my mind. In fact, I’ve listened to the talk no less than 80 times since then. In the talk Shirky broke down [...]

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Dictators and Pastors or Revolutions and Revivals

This is less of a blog post and more of a mind dump…feel free to try and read it. I saw a talk by Clay Shirky at SXSW Interactive this year that was mind blowing for me in terms of pulling together lots of ideas I have into a detailed breakdown of the revolution in [...]

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Content: Consume, Produce, Share

I’m reading Cognitive Surplus for the third time…I have recommended it so many times in the last month that I figured I should take my own advice again. I’ll say this about Cognitive Surplus: If you lead an¬†organization¬†that creates and distributes content to be consumed and you are not ready for the cognitive surplus reality [...]

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