TweetHere are some of the posts and people from around the web who have inspired me, entertained me, or informed me this week. Enjoy!
Tag Archives: creativity
The Best of the Creative World in 2009
TweetI have recently joined the ranks of the Fuel Network, which is somewhat of a collection of awesome online magazines about a variety of creative subjects. I’m the Editor of Fuel Your Blogging, a magazine about… blogging, of course. All of the editors worked simultaneously on “best of 2009″ posts and they all launched together. [...]
Jeff Flowers Thinks I’m Cool
TweetI just did a guest post over at the blog of Jeff Flowers, a church planter in Cincinnati. I have an affinity for church planters and Jeff is doing a great work there. He asked me to post about creativity and ministry, so I did. You can even comment, but please don’t tell Jeff I’m [...]
What Would You Do With a Good Domain
TweetI’m at a loss. I have CreativeCox.com and it’s in some sort of limbo. I wanted to make it a site like Alltop or Popurls, but wound up moving that idea over to foliovine. I started out using it as kind of a bookmarking replacement for delicious but it was a lot of work, it [...]
Mind Mapping and Sermon Preparation
TweetBelow is a mind map. Behold… If you’ve never used mind mapping, you might want to give it a try. I’ve found it to be an excellent tool for brainstorming, organizational charting, sermon preparation, memorization of large amounts of data, planning, and collaboration. Essentially, mind mapping is a means of throwing our thoughts out on [...]
23 Unique Sources of Creative Inspiration
TweetI subscribe to a whole lot of feeds! In fact, I try to read feeds across a variety of disciplines aside from pastoral ministry and web/graphic design. This is because I don’t just value resources and links that give me some ready-to-apply technique or tool. I value a larger spectrum of creativity in art, music, [...]
When Good Design and Effective Marketing Clash
TweetThat’s right – great design work can sometimes be counterproductive to effective storytelling. Seth Godin addresses this point in his blog on The first question every web site designer must ask. His basic conclusion is that some organizations need for the public to stand in awe of the design, but some don’t. The design can [...]
The Six Church Marketing Bad-Attitudes | Ministry Marketing Coach
TweetThe Six Church Marketing Bad-Attitudes | Ministry Marketing Coach. Chris Forbes, over in Okhahoma, has done another awesome job of articulating the attitudes that I believe are killing so many churches today. These six bad-attitudes represent six small-minded, closed-minded ways of thinking about outreach. Well worth the read!
Reflections on The Creative Leader by Ed Young
TweetI just finished reading The Creative Leader: Unleashing the Power of Your Creative Potential. It’s been an enjoyable and challenging read. I don’t know that I would ever do ministry just the way Ed does, but that’s really kind of the point – duplication and imitation squelches creativity. As we’ve journeyed through change at Bethel, [...]
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