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So this is pretty weird to be posting my own notes… Download a PDF of the Slides here.
HUGE thanks to everyone who came and supported, I hope it was a beneficial session for you guys! And a HUGE thanks to Jarbyco for hooking us up and letting us take questions via text! And, if you [...]

Ok, I’m not going to lie. I’m pretty nervous about Friday… my first workshop on church communications.
I think I’ve rewritten it at least a dozen times, changed and deleted slides, lost some sleep…
BUT
I am totally excited at the same time.
It should be a blast, hopefully.
If you are heading to MinistryCOM, I’d love to see you [...]

Michael Hyatt did a great post on Facebook Pages that got me thinking…
I have a lot of Facebook friends, and many of them aren’t so connected to my life as a church communications person… and aren’t very interested in what I have to say, professionally, but still care about me on a personal level.
Michael’s reasons [...]

I attended MinistryCOM for the first time four years ago. At the time I was a young buck who was still figuring out all of this church communication stuff. It was an absolutely phenomenal experience for me on many levels. I think the biggest take-away was realizing that I wasn’t alone.
I think all too often [...]

So today has been a bit wild.
Even though Twitter crashed for awhile (and we all thought it was the end of the world), I was amazed to see how word about my notes from the Leadership Summit spread across the Twittersphere… thanks in part to @ShawnWood, @CatalystLeader and others.
As of this blog post, nearly 2,000 [...]

Really excited to be heading to Dallas tomorrow with Jason Widney to check out the Echo Church Media Conference. Should be a blast!
Really looking forward to be hearing from a great line-up of speakers including: Phil Vischer, Ben Arment, Phil Cooke, Mark Steele, Dawn Nicole Baldwin, Cynthia Ware, Matt Knisely, Shawn Wood, Drew Goodmanson, Carlos [...]

I’ve grown up.
I’ve spent the greater part of the entire past weekend migrating and editing content from my old TypePad blog to my new home here with WordPress.
I spent a great deal of time organizing old posts and categorizing them in a way that I hope will help you access content more easily. It was [...]

Last week we had the chance to welcome LV from Catalyst to Park to share a bit about what’s going on here and our vision to reach the city of Chicago.
Pretty random, LV connected to us via Twitter and came to meet me, Jason and our lead pastor Jackson.
It was a phenomenal opportunity and so [...]

So yeah, blogging has taken a bit of a backseat this summer… life in the city in summer is seriously ridiculous (in a good way).
But that being said, the conference season is nearly upon us and wanted to highlight a few conferences I will be at this summer/fall!

ECHO | Dallas, July 29-31 – Just registered [...]

A month ago today I began a personal health revolution.
I joined David Barton Gym at the end of April and on May 18 started keeping an online food and exercise diary on MyFoodDiary.com.
Over the past month I’ve been focused on changing my lifestyle… not dieting… not taking any pills… not using a thigh master or [...]

Well besides my little Twabbatical, I’ve been busy the past month or so… here’s
a quick rundown on things I would have Twittered or blogged about…
A Month in 10 Points…
1 – Our website was stolen. Park’s website was stolen by another church. Like for real. It was a valuable experience in learning that imitation can be [...]

I’m back.
I was going to wait until June 13 to make my triumphant re-entry back into the social networking world, but I’m headed to the Willow Creek Arts Conference tomorrow and know that I’ll probably go insane if I’m not Twittering things I’m hearing and learning from the fantastic lineup of speakers… so here [...]