Sign Wednesday: Resumes and Gina McClain #kidmin

Over the last couple of months I've been going through resumes trying to find the right fit for our Junior High Pastor opening.  This is a process that I really don't like to do.  In fact I agree with Seth Godin's article entitled "Why bother having a resume?" You can read his post here. As always he makes some great points.

Well earlier this week I was talking to my very good friend Gina McClain.  She is currently looking to change Children's Ministry for all of us.  Notice I said she is not looking for a job.  We were talking about her resume and what should be on it or not and if she should be creative and just do one that is more social than paper.  Then I remembered Seth's article.  She doesn't need a resume because she is remarkable.  Gina blogs here, tweets here, and has a Facebook account here.  If you want to know who Gina is then she is as open as anyone I've seen.  You're not going to hire her though because she is open and let's you know her thoughts (which by the way are much better than mine most of the time) but because she is a leader.  She will push your church, organization, or even company further than you can imagine.  Believe me if I thought for a second that she would take our Junior High Pastor position she would have it in a second but she won't.  It doesn't fit into passions and goals.  That's a bummer but you may have an opening that does.  If you do, hire her now!

So here's the deal...  Instead of sending me another resume saying that you would like to be our next Junior High Pastor how about interacting with me on this blog, twitter, or Facebook?  How about having 3 of your friends tell me why I would be stupid not to hire you?  I want our next Pastor to be remarkable not just another person who can fill the role.

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2 Minute Tuesday: The Christmas Village

It's been way to long but the McKee boys are back.  Enjoy a little highlight of our Christmas village.

 

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Ministry Monday: I work for a Deuteronomy Church and I like it.

I went to church every week from the time I was born until until I graduated high school.  Sometimes that church was a Christian Church and other times that church was a Baptist Church.  I went to many church functions over those years.  In fact, I went to many things that I didn't understand like church potlucks.  Church potlucks never seemed like a celebration to me but that is what most people in the church called them.  How in the world do you celebrate with mystery meatballs, quiche, fried chicken, fruit in Jello, and Shepard's pie?  As a kid it was hard to see the celebration and as an adult I think it is even harder. 

When was the last time you read Deuteronomy 14:22-27?  I'm guessing it has probably been a while if ever.  Warning for all of my Southern Baptist friends out there this might be hard to swallow, just saying.  Here it is from the New Living Translation:

22 "You must set aside a tithe of your crops—one-tenth of all the crops you harvest each year.23 Bring this tithe to the designated place of worship—the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to be honored—and eat it there in his presence. This applies to your tithes of grain, new wine, olive oil, and the firstborn males of your flocks and herds. Doing this will teach you always to fear the Lord your God.  24 "Now when the Lord your God blesses you with a good harvest, the place of worship he chooses for his name to be honored might be too far for you to bring the tithe.25 If so, you may sell the tithe portion of your crops and herds, put the money in a pouch, and go to the place the Lord your God has chosen.26 When you arrive, you may use the money to buy any kind of food you want—cattle, sheep, goats, wine, or other alcoholic drink. Then feast there in the presence of the Lord your God and celebrate with your household.27 And do not neglect the Levites in your town, for they will receive no allotment of land among you.

There is nothing taken out of context by this passage.  If you feel like you shouldn't drink alcohol then I don't think you should either.  This celebration that we are reading about happens once a year and not every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.  I do find it interesting though that God in this passage is saying that you should celebrate with the tithes and offerings.  You should celebrate God by throwing a party for the things He has provided.  I think that's awesome.

Let me tell you what my church did this past Saturday.  We threw a party.  We had it at a local country club and asked people to dress up.  We had food, a band, dancing, and yes we even had wine.  Why would we do such a thing?  It is quite simple.  We wanted to celebrate what God has done through our campaign for our new church building and invite anyone who hasn't pledged yet and wanted to an opportunity to do so.  We read Deuteronomy 14 and said why don't we do that?

Can I tell you that it was fun?  I had a blast dancing with my wife.  It was great to see people of our church have fun and celebrate their giving.  It was a unique experience that I had never had before. 

What would your church say if you asked, "Can I take some of the tithes and offerings and go to the local party store to throw a celebration about what God is doing at our church?"  I'm glad mine said, "You know what, that's not a bad idea."

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5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases via @mashable and comments from myself

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The Google Wave invite rollout extravaganza started more than a month ago. While in some respects the buzz around Google Wave has started to subside, the term is still constantly one of the top trending topics on Twitter, and new gadgets, extensions, and applications are now starting to appear on a daily basis.

Each day more and more people are opening up their email inbox to find an invite to Google WaveGoogle Wave

. With that shiny new invite comes the inevitable quest for ideas about to how to put the medium to good use.

Should you happen to be one of those people, we’ve got a number of different resources that you can use to get up to speed with Google Wave. This time around, however, we wanted to look at how people are actually using it now. From process modelling and customer service, to project collaboration, annotation, and gaming, the examples listed here highlight the power of the newborn medium, and in part, showcase what we can expect as the platform matures.

1. SAP Gravity: Modeling within Google Wave

Understanding the power of real-time collaboration and its relevance to clients, SAP Research in AustraliaAustralia

has developed a business process modeling tool called Gravity that works within Google Wave.

The sophisticated tool, which can be embedded within a Wave as a gadget, allows for team members to remotely build complex models in unison, or after catching up via playback, without having to leave Google Wave.

Gravity and Google Wave work together harmoniously to create a modeling environment that appears to be just as robust as, if not more flexible than, expensive desktop software built for the same purpose.

We think SAP is certainly on to something here, and we encourage you to watch the video demonstration of Gravity in Google Wave in action.

2. Salesforce: Google Wave for Customer Service

Salesforce, like SAP, has figured out that they can use the Google Wave platform to support client needs and tackle real-life problems. As such, Salesforce has created a Google Wave extension that clients can use to help automate, and even personalize, the customer service experience.

Watch the demonstration video to see how the Salesforce extension gives customers the ability to use Google Wave to interact with an automated support robot. Of course, customers can request assistance from a human within the Wave as well.

What makes this example stand out is the fact that not only is the Google Wave dialogue being stored as a case record within Salesforce, but, because the robot is connected to the Salesforce Service Cloud, the robot can access previously stored customer data for tailored service. Ultimately, Salesforce has found a way to potentially save clients money on customer service efforts, all the while maintaining active records, with the assistance of Google Wave.

3. Mingle: Integrated Project Collaboration

Mingle is a project management and team collaboration tool developed by ThoughtWorks Studios, who realized that they could add Mingle’s project management metadata to conversations in Google Wave.

The integration is still a work in progress, but a demonstration of the concept was highlighted at Enterprise 2.0, and the basic idea is to give Google Wave users/Mingle clients the ability to bring their Mingle task data, which takes the form of cards, into Google Wave. Existing Mingle cards can be embedded into Wave conversation threads, and new Mingle cards/tasks can be created within Google Wave.

This particular use case highlights how Google Wave can work with existing project management systems for more streamlined and cohesive communication, creating parity regardless of where the user is accessing project data.

4. Ecomm Conference: Annotating a Live Event

Just last week our CEO, Pete Cashmore, wrote about how the savvy people behind the Ecomm conference doled out Wave accounts to attendees so that they could collaborate, in real-time, to annotate presentation content. The result was arguably a much better way to consume conference content than attempting to follow hashtag tweets on TwitterTwitter

.

You can read the full account, which was documented by Charlie Osmond, on the FreshWords blog, but here’s an excerpt that we think drives home the utility of the use case.

“Here’s what happened: an audience member would create a Google Wave and others in the audience would edit the wave during the presentation. The result would be a crowd-sourced write-up of the presentation: a transcript of key points and a record of audience comments.”

We happen to think this particular use case is genius, especially for content-rich seminars and events where attendees are typically taking their own individual notes. With the shared Google Wave experience they can combine forces to create a more meaningful and accurate recounting of information shared in conference sessions.

5. Gamers: Google Wave RPGs

A very detailed Ars Technica post highlights that there’s a growing collection of Google Wave users who are using the medium to play wave-borne RPGs (role playing games). As mentioned in the post, there’s a even a Wave dedicated to serving as an index for all the Wave RPGs currently in existence, and the last time we counted it included upwards of 300 contributing members, and a combination of 30 different ideas or full-fledged games.

According to Jon Stokes, the author of the post, Google Wave is adequate for some RPGs, but it could certainly be improved to allow for a more enjoyable experience. In the excerpt below, Stokes describes the current RPGRPG

experience within Google Wave:

“The few games I’m following typically have at least three waves: one for recruiting and general discussion, another for out-of-character interactions (”table talk”), and the main wave where the actual in-character gaming takes place. Individual players are also encouraged to start waves between themselves for any conversations that the GM shouldn’t be privy to. Character sheets can be posted in a private wave between a player and the GM, and character biographies can go anywhere where the other players can get access to them.

The waves are persistent, accessible to anyone who’s added to them, and include the ability to track changes, so they ultimately work quite well as a medium for the non-tactical parts of an RPG. A newcomer can jump right in and get up-to-speed on past interactions, and a GM or industrious player can constantly maintain the official record of play by going back and fixing errors, formatting text, adding and deleting material, and reorganizing posts. Character generation seems to work quite well in Wave, since players can develop the shared character sheet at their own pace with periodic feedback from the GM.”

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I've been looking for Google Wave innovations and these are pretty incredible. Google Wave has a long journey ahead of it but it's beginning is very good.

Are you using Google Wave? You can add me to any wave you want: remixkids@googlewave.com

I would love to connect and utilize this playground that will only get better.

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Could this finally be the season for Web TV? // Are churches ready for this too?

Could this finally be the season for Web TV?

By David Lieberman, USA TODAY

NEW YORK — You have good reason to be skeptical when someone says millions of ordinary television viewers are about to start surfing the Internet on the living room's electronic hearth.

We've heard that Web-on-your-TV convergence promise for more than a decade, with ambitious efforts to make it happen including AOL TV and WebTV Networks. Each time, the optimists have been wrong.

This year might be different.

Big TV manufacturers including Sony, Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Vizio say that they're poised to revolutionize television this Christmas shopping season: They're about to launch the first major marketing push for a new generation of sets that can easily integrate Web content with traditional TV news and entertainment without the fuss of connecting the TV to a set-top box.

"When we all open up the newspapers on Jan. 1, and they talk about the hot items from the holiday selling season, Internet-connected TVs are going to be at the top of the list," says Randy Waynick, senior vice president at Sony's Consumer Group.

The campaign could be risky. Consumers may balk if TV sets become too computerlike and complicated. Manufacturers are in a race with cable companies and gadget providers including makers of DVRs, Blu-ray players and game machines who offer alternative ways to blend the Internet with TV.

But the new versions of Web TVs will soon become the norm in consumer electronics stores. In 2014, consumers in North America will buy 45 million of these sets, representing 69% of all TV sales, ABI Research says. That's up from 6 million and 14% of sales in 2009.

As they catch on, television will become "a completely new ballgame," says Matthew McRae, general manager of advanced technology products at Vizio. Software developers will flock to the new platform, making Web TVs "the next area of innovation" following computers and cellphones, he says.

Lesson learned

Manufacturers say they learned an important lesson from earlier convergence failures: Viewers want to relate to sets as televisions, not computers.

That's why the new Web TV models don't come with browsers that would give people the freedom to surf the full Internet, even though the TVs connect to the Web via an ethernet cable or home wireless network. The companies want to promote consumer acceptance of Web TV by making the technology simple to use: That means no keyboard or mouse.

It's just Step 1: Engineers are talking about changes that would make it easy to navigate the Internet. One thought is to program smartphones so they can change channels, send text messages to the set and move a cursor around the screen with the motion-sensitive technology that Nintendo uses with its Wii game system.

For now, though, people just need the TV remote control to select and launch prepackaged applications. Yahoo, the clearinghouse for most of these apps, calls them widgets.

The handful now available make it possible to call up news headlines, weather, stock prices, sports scores and more while watching conventional TV channels. Some widgets can summon information about new bids from an auction on eBay and the latest posts from social-networking services such as Facebook and Twitter.

Web TV sets also typically make it possible to watch videos from Internet-based providers including YouTube, Break.com, Blip.tv and SingingFool. (CBS makes some of its traditional TV shows including CSI andAs the World Turns available via the Internet to some Web-connected sets. But ABC, Fox and NBC which provide shows online at their own sites and Hulu do not.)

The widget offerings can vary by manufacturer. Vizio, for example, has an exclusive arrangement to provide music from Rhapsody. Sony will rent its animated movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in December, before it's out on DVD, to people who own one of its Internet-connected TVs or Blu-ray disc players.

But the range and sophistication of services are expected to grow quickly.

Manufacturers are gearing up to introduce Web-based phone and videoconferencing services such as Skype. They're also cutting deals with video-on-demand providers including Amazon, Blockbuster and Netflixto give movie fans the freedom to sidestep or supplement cable's VOD offerings.

These current and coming features enticed Andy Fowler, a retired finance officer for theGolden Corral restaurant chain, to buy an Internet-connected TV from LG.

"My kids are scattered all across the United States, and now I can see the news and weather where they are," says Fowler, 63, who lives in Silver Lake, Wash. Although he could also do that on a computer, "It's nice to have it on a big screen. It's easy to use. ... And more people are going to be programming for this, so it'll be nice to have."

Some Web TVs cost more than comparable sets that can't connect to the Internet. For example, Sony charges $1,100 for a model with a 40-inch screen, about $250 more than a similar set without Web connectivity.

That's not a consistent pattern, though.Samsung charges $2,200 for an LED-backlit model with a 40-inch screen, or $200 more than its counterpart without Web TV. But there's no price difference for an Internet-connected 40-inch set with an LCD screen, which costs $1,500.

Vizio says it will not charge extra for Web TV and offers a 42-inch model for $1,000.

The drive to dazzle consumers by continually offering more, and more technically demanding, services will force smart shoppers to look beyond picture and sound quality when they buy a set. They'll have to consider the strength of the processor, the amount of memory and the kinds of software installed.

People also may feel pressure to replace sets every few years to take advantage of new applications that require more powerful hardware.

"That's why there's some debate as to how successful this ultimately is going to be," says Nick Wilson, chief technology officer for Web video firm Break Media. "There's only so much you can do by upgrading software inside the device before you have to go through a hardware revision."

If consumers become frustrated, it could open the way for cable operators.

Cable executives say that just about anyone who has a digital cable service will soon be able to call up the same interactive services that TV manufacturers are promising.

Consumers also would not have to worry about connecting the TV to the Internet because "it all comes through the cable system," says Paul Liao, CEO ofCableLabs, the cable industry's research-and-development arm.

Cable operators have a strong incentive to move quickly to offer Internet services on television sets. If they don't, subscribers may discover they can satisfy their news and entertainment needs from the Internet on their Web-enabled TVs and save the $60 or so they pay each month to receive cable channels such as TBS, USA Network,ESPN, MTV and Fox News.

Still, most cable operators can't offer Web services overnight.

"There are many different kinds of (cable) digital set-top boxes out there," says Liao. "They all need to have software put in (to accommodate Internet connections). And the software has to be customized to that hardware."

If cable operators move too slowly, consumers may connect their TVs to the Internet through devices from Apple TV, Roku, TiVo and Microsoft's Xbox game player.

Who will win the race?

"That's the $1 million question," says ABI Research analyst Michael Inouye. "It could go either way."

Yahoo widgets

TV set manufacturers say that their recent adoption of Yahoo's widgets should help make consumers and software developers more comfortable with Web-enabled televisions.

Although Sony began to offer Web-enabled TVs in 2007, "We launched (the Yahoo widgets) about six months ago," Waynick says. "So they're really just starting to come into the marketplace."

Manufacturers hope that software firms will be motivated to develop lots of Web TV apps as they see how easy it is to adapt them to different sets, says Russ Schafer, Yahoo's senior director of marketing for connected TVs and desktops.

Yahoo's rules dictate how widgets look and work, and limit spam and content that many users might deem offensive, including gambling and sexually risqu references. Manufacturers still can tailor Yahoo's widgets to suit their styles. For example, Samsung's are blue, while LG's are red. Vizio is using the widgets for all of its controls, including screen brightness and settings. (Panasonic uses a different navigation system.) But there's a bottleneck at Yahoo as it struggles to approve each application.

"I have a database of over 1,000 (firms) just waiting for a development kit so they can come onto the platform," Schafer says. "We've been holding everything back, waiting to get a fast quality-assurance process. We're trying to speed that up."

Widgets aren't a big money maker for Yahoo just yet.

"The way we will make money in the future is by advertising once we aggregate enough of an audience," Schafer says.

Yahoo's central position, though, already gives it a lot of leverage as it cuts deals with developers.

"When we start talking about ad placement, that's when they get excited because they have an ad engine," says Jeff Allen, CEO of Rallypoint, which offers data and services for fantasy sports fans. There's also a question of whose widgets stand out on the screen where viewers pick ones to download. Yahoo "has a Google or an Apple model," Allen says. "If you want to be at the top of the list, then pay a fee."

That gate-keeping strategy may work for now. But today's business plans could quickly become obsolete if optimists finally are right about convergence, and consumers clamor for the flexibility to explore the far corners of cyberspace.

"There is a whole bunch of information or communication that I rely on from the Internet," says Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Web video company Brightcove. "And I want those to be available from a remote while sitting in front of a big screen."

To view the original story go to http://usat.me/?36790358

Copyright 2009, USATODAY.com

So whether this is the season or if next year or the next is it, I think the question is, "How do churches, curriculum companies, and ministries leverage this opportunity?"

There is opportunity here. I look forward to using it.

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We can learn from Obsession

Here is a guy who turned down Pepsi because he is lazer focused about his mission.  What would happen if your business, church, or organization had that type of focus. What would happen if you knew yourself so well that you were willing to turn down the largest account because you had a better plan?  Don't lose your focus. Learn from this guy's obsession.

 

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Ministry Monday: Entrepreneurs 'give back' with jobs // A great friend making a difference

Entrepreneurs 'give back' with jobs

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Two veterans of the household products industry have started a new company with plans to bring at least 250 jobs to one of Cincinnati's most stressed neighborhoods.

Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, who both have links to Procter & Gamble, started Nehemiah Manufacturing with the goal of creating jobs in Over-the-Rhine, a poor neighborhood with high unemployment.

Their venture was jumpstarted when they were awarded a license from P&G to market the consumer giant's Kandoo brand. The line of hand soap, wipes and shampoo for kids posted $15 million in sales in 2008, too small for P&G, with $80 billion in annual sales, to pay much attention to. What's more, the brand was in trouble, with sales sliding dramatically in the past year and capturing only a small fraction of its market, according to Information Resources Inc., a Chicago-based market research firm.

But for a newfound company, stepping into $15 million in sales with the power of Procter & Gamble branding behind it, was a significant start. It also represents what Meyer and Palmer call their greater purpose of creating opportunities for those who haven't had many.

"There's a larger purpose for this company," Meyer said. "Create jobs, create hope and give back to the community."

The jobs will be unskilled - packaging, minor assembly of products and loading pallets for shipping. But they would help fill a need for work for the chronically unemployed, people who don't show up on the monthly unemployment rolls because they can't hold down jobs or have been out of work too long.

"There's about 100,000 unskilled, entry-level people unemployed in this market," said Dave Phillips, co-founder of Cincinnati Works, a non-profit employment training agency. "There is a significant labor force that's able to work that is chronically unemployed."

Nehemiah forecasts creating 250 to 500 jobs by 2011, with Over-the-Rhine the favored location. The partners have scouted the former Husman's potato chip plant off McMicken Street and the old Moerlein Brewery building at Elm and McMicken, said Bill Fischer of the City of Cincinnati's Department of Community Development.

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The firm can expect significant federal and local incentives by locating in Over-the-Rhine or another federal empowerment zone, possibly up to $30,000 to $50,000 per job, Fischer said.

Since Oct. 19, Nehemiah has been marketing and shipping Kandoo products to major retailers in North America from a warehouse in Pleasant Ridge that the partners rent on a short-term lease. The site and the P&G business give them a rolling start and a base from which to expand, as they plan to seek work from Kroger, further licensing deals from P&G and agreements to manufacture private-label products for retailers.

Meyer and Palmer both have experience in consumer products. Palmer is a P&G alumnus who worked on the company's $9 billion Pampers brand and then started a consulting business.

Meyer started his career at P&G, then moved to Drackett Co., a Cincinnati-based company that was bought and then closed in the early '90s. Meyer and others from Drackett started a company called Changing Paradigms that manufactured private-label products for Kroger and others. Alpharetta, Ga.-based OneCare bought Changing Paradigms, and the company worked with P&G to manufacture extensions of P&G brands such as Pampers, Downy and Dreft. The company operates a manufacturing plant in Ludlow that at its peak employed 500 people.

Meyer left OneCare earlier this year to start Nehemiah, a company he named after the Old Testament figure who rebuilt the city of Jerusalem.

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For the last 4 years I've had the privilege of having breakfast with Rich Palmer once a week almost every week. To say that we are merely friends would be a huge understatement. Not only are we intentional about eating together but we also lead a Men's Bible study together every week as well. We push each other to be better husbands, dads, friends, and even businessmen.

Needless to say, I'm really proud and excited for my friend. I can't wait to see how this company grows and impacts the community. It's refreshing to see companies who want to make a difference and give back in such a tangible way in an area of town that needs help.

So thank you Rich for being there for me but also thanks for having a vision that is much bigger than yourself. That's awesome.

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Apple Stores Will Use iPod Touches as Checkouts // When will @F1ace do this for check-in?

Until now, the Apple Stores have used Windows CE-based handheld computers to check out your purchases. The convenience of not having to queue at a counter to pay meant that Steve Jobs has doubtless spent the last few years squirming that his company relied on a Microsoft product. Store staff weren’t too happy either. According to Apple Insider, “the system has drawn complaints from employees about software crashes, sluggish operation and the need to frequently reboot”

Now that the iPod Touch can run applications that interface with add-on hardware, everything has changed. The new payment system uses an iPod in a hard plastic case which can scan barcodes and swipe credit cards. This is married to an application called EasyPay Touch, which will process cards, issue returns and even let you buy and activate an iPhone on the plan of your choice. If the Apple employee hits the “cash” button, a register drawer will open somewhere in the store in which to deposit the filthy lucre (participating stores only).

What about signing for your purchase? The grand irony is that the stylus-free handheld computer needs to use a stylus. And not just any stylus, but the Pogo stylus, which we called “The Most Useless iPhone Accessory. Ever” back in December 2007. Still, it’s one more weapon in the fight against Microsoft, and especially the new Microsoft stores. Apple Insider says that “The Microsoft solution is about four times larger than an iPod touch and weighs five times as much.”

We’re sure that Steve Jobs is very happy.

Exclusive look at Apple’s new iPod touch-based EasyPay checkout [Apple Insider]

See Also:

• Pogo Stylus: The Most Useless iPhone Accessory. Ever
• Autograph: Sign Documents with Finger and Trackpad
• Pogo iPhone Stylus Bounces Back. Again
• Pogo Stick Turns Mac Touchpads into Graphics Tablets

via wired.com

Can you imagine having this flexibility for check in at churches, events, or conferences? Roaming check-in would be incredible. Especially if you could scan a barcode which pulls up the family, print to a remote wireless printer, and still get the human interactivity that doesn't come with self check in. So now that Fellowship Technologies has created an iPhone app that is nice, I think it is time to tackle this little project.

Would anyone else like to be able to do this at your church, event, or conference?

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Youtube for kids // Great post by @jcisonline

Just did a little checking of some old bookmarks I kept. Here is one that I never got around to posting about. CNN had a piece on Designing and Internet for Kids. Thought it was a pretty cool read. You can read it here. But I wanted to highlight the site they posted.

ZuiTube provides a kid friendly and kid appropriate place for your kids to browse online. So basically a safe “Youtube for kids” even though I know that most kids can are already keen on the interface for Youtube, this is a safe place.

The site is ad free because of the parent browser platform that is called KidZui. If you are a parent and are looking for a browser that is safe for your kids, then this might be for you. Internet is a wonderful, wonderful place but full of craziness. Don’t be naive, take action and be proactive to keep your kids from alot of junk.

via jcisonline.com

JC frequently has great content on his site. You can visit his site at http://www.jcisonline.com

I feel there are some great advantages to this site. What do you think? Do you think that there should be a YouTube for kids? Do you think YouTube should just create better filters so that kids 5-10 could browse their site easier? Maybe even more important... Do you let your kids on YouTube and if no would you let them be on ZuiTube?

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All of my tweets from the #orangetour in 1 post and in order. Enjoy. #kidmin

Just in case you don't follow me on twitter or you would like to see a nice recap of the Orange Tour that Reggie Joiner and The Rethink Group are doing, here are all of my tweets from the one day conference.  The Orange tour still has a couple more stops and I would encourage you to go if you have the chance.  There are also many pictures on my Posterous page that you can enjoy as well.

The Orange Tour in Cincinnati http://post.ly/Ap1j

The #orangetour has begun in Cincinnati. @reggiejoiner is breaking down walls and putting people from different denominations at ease.

Why do people still lean out their car window and motion for others to roll down their window? Who rolls down their windows? #orangetour

What causes you to change? People change when the pain with status quo becomes greater than the pain with change. #orangetour

If you want to build something that last you will have to be willing to change what you build. #orangetour nice stuff @reggiejoiner #fb

The things that you miss from not coming to the #orangetour are the stories. @reggiejoiner should look into livestreaming the stories. #fb

There is a tendency to be too slow to upgrade because change seems costly. #orangetour #fb

The best way to keep a team moving toward your mission is to frequently upgrade your systems #orangetour #fb

Every change gives you an opportunity to distinguish between what is core and what is cultural #orangetour #fb

When you don't upgrade the system, you lose your capacity to support a more relevant (connecting what's at hand) approach #orangetour #fb

Just because you take off your tie and put on jeans doesn't make your worship contemporary #orangetour

Misalignment happens... You have to work at being aligned not misaligned #orangetour #fb

There is a big difference in teaching truth and discipling a life. #orangetour #fb

5 systems/issues that need help: Strategy, Message, Family, Community, & Influence #orangetour #fb

You can tell people that they are significant but they won't feel significant until you give them something significant to do. #orangetour

Steve and I just met. He said, "once you drink the orange kool aid you're all in." I'm drinking this. #orangetour

Going back to the #orangetour. Warning: lots of good info ahead. #fb

RT @andrearc3kids: You have to kill something (a ministry) that's living so something else can thrive. #orangetour #fb

I don't care if you have to make up a job. I want every highschooler to have a place to serve. #orangetour #fb

At the end of the day, it's not about Bible content, but how it translates to a child's relationship with God #orangetour #fb

I don't care if you have to make up a job. I want every highschooler to have a place to serve. #orangetour #fb // @reggiejoiner is on fire

One of the greatest struggles of the church is trying to undo what should have been undone 10 years ago. #orangetour #fb

If your student can name the 66 books of the Bible doesn't mean that their not screwed up. It means they have a good memory. #orangetour #fb

RT @paulrc3: Some of you could try and cast vision 24/7, but your not good at it. @reggiejoiner #orangetour #fb

No parent leaving the labor/delivery room say to each other, "I can't wait to screw this up!" @reggiejoiner #orangetour #fb // help parents

The reason we package the material of the http://ReThinkGroup.org the way we do is for the unchurched not the churched #orangetour #fb

How are you doing with your own personal spiritual strategy? Is that why you're having a hard time corporately?#orangetour #fb

You might think that you have experienced the #orangetour today because of these tweets. Believe me, you need to go for yourself. #fb

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