Stumbled into an article on work habits that I think can be helpful to those of us in ministry. It is 10 Bad Work Habits and number two jumped out to me. It is…
2. Being a sloppy e-mailer
E-mails are second nature to most people these days, and in informal communications they’ve become a digital Post-It [...]
I hate to tell you, but this video educates us as to why we need to call that person who is driving us crazy, not send them a note.
Email is great for facts but poor for emotional and tense issues.
Texting is in and I think, in some variety, is here to stay. From Textually.org…
Nationally, more than 75 billion text messages are sent a month, and the most avid texters are 13 to 17, say researchers. Teens with cellphones average 2,272 text messages a month, compared with 203 calls, according to the Nielsen Co. (Source)
I [...]
I read the blog, Cognitive Daily, and today stumbled into something worth remembering. The piece was on the effectiveness of humor in Super Bowl advertising, but speaks to preaching as well.
Surprisingly, there actually hasn’t been much research on the effectiveness of humor in ads. Instead, most research has focused on expectancy: if something in an [...]
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On Saturday I challenged us to consider asking questions versus making statements in our sermons. Today I stumbled upon a piece that was sharing methods to tell a story like Malcolm Gladwell. (Author of the new book, Outliers as well as The Tipping Point and Blink.)
They gave 7 methods, but this one was [...]
Dan and Chip Heath, authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, have a new article up on Fast Company.com. It is about making presentations and how they can be more engaging to the listener.
I think these two paragraphs sum up the article quite well. They read….
….Great presentations are mysteries, not [...]
Twitter, the microblogging service, is moving from the realm of geeks to the mainstream. Still, many people don’t seem to see the implications for our lives.
Fast Company posted a good piece that talks about what Twitter can teach about leadership. Basically, if you can’t communicate something important in 140 characters, you will have trouble leading.
Leadership [...]
