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Chris Brogan Interview – Part 3

August 13, 2009 in double popped, videos with 2 Comments

This is the third part of my doublepop interview with Chris Brogan (@ChrisBrogan) and John Saddington (@human3rror). You will not want to miss this one!

What are your thoughts on what Chris talked about? Be sure to leave your comment below!
{by the way; are you following me on twitter?}

About Chris – {from ChrisBrogan.com}
Chris Brogan is President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency, and home of the Inbound Marketing Summit conferences and Inbound Marketing Bootcamp educational events. He works with large and mid-sized companies to improve online business communications like marketing and PR through the use of social software, community platforms, and other emerging web and mobile technologies.

Chris Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at [chrisbrogan.com], a blog in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati.

Chris is also the cofounder of the PodCamp new media conference series, exploring the use of new media community tools to extend and build value.

He recently became president of New Marketing Labs, a social media agency. He runs the Inbound Marketing Summit events with CrossTech Media. Chris frequently speaks at and attends marketing and social media events, sharing his passion for all things social media.

Chris won the Mass High Tech All Stars award for thought leaders for 2008. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, The Montreal Gazette, Newsweek, and some other places.

Prior to these roles in the media and events space, Chris had over 16 years of telecommunications experience in wireless and landline technologies, including enterprise software and hardware experience, project management expertise, and applications/solutions engineering experience, as well.

What Chris Has Done

If you’re wondering why you’re bothering to read anything Chris writes, here are a few bullet points of things that he’s done in his past that might be relevant:

Won the Mass High Tech All Stars award for 2008.
Blogged since 1998 (when it was called journaling).
Recorded several podcasts, and launched a small new media network in 2006.
Videoblogged in several forms, including Small Boxes and AttentionUPGRADE.
Built data centers, released software, acquired companies, and all kinds of other fun projects while working for a wireless telecommunications company.
Launched the PodCamp unconference series with Christopher S. Penn.
Programmed and hosted the Video on the Net conference in 2007.
Worked on an Internet video startup with Jeff Pulver in 2007.
Collaborated on tons of social media and social networks projects over 2007.

Austin Cookie Lounge – a different kind of cookie

July 10, 2009 in videos with 3 Comments

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A few weeks ago I was in Austin speaking at a camp, and as I was heading out of town I got a tweet from my good from Dave that said;

“You need to hit up the Cookie Lounge.”

I asked him what “The Cookie Lounge” was and he said;

“think Cold Stone, but with cookies.”

That’s all you had to say! My wife and I went – and we’re glad we did! This place is awesome!!! It was just like my friend Dave said – it’s basically Cold Stone – but with Cookies. You choose your own dough type, choose your mix ins, and wait for them to freshly bake your cookie – it’s awesome! I’ve never seen any place make cookies like this place makes cookies! {Not to mention it’s a cool looking place, and the staff is really nice!}

If you are ever in Austin you need to “hit up the Cookie Lounge! If you go, or have been, be sure to come back and leave a comment!
Click play above to check out some footage I took during my visit!
{You can connect with the Cookie Lounge via their website, or their twitter!}

{By the way – this entire video was shot with my iphone 3GS!}

I’m on posterous. Are you?

June 29, 2009 in life with 2 Comments

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I’ll be honest. God has blessed me with some crazy-awesome friends. Hands down – I am friends with some of the most creative, and innovate people walking the Earth right now. Not only are they super talented – but they are using their God-given talent to do Kingdom work. I like that!

One of the best parts about having such a great group of friends; I”m always learning about really cool, new ways to do things that I am already doing – but better! One of my good friends, John, made a post on Church Crunch the other day titled – “Why I’m moving to Posterous and Leaving TwitPic (and everything else like it)”

My first thought after reading that post was;

“OH NO! Not another social media network to keep up with. No way!”

But then I looked into it a bit more, talked with John a bit more – and now I”m sold! It’s not another social media network to keep up with – in fact – it keeps up with the ones you already have!
If you consider yourself “in” to social media – this is a really, REALLY, cool website. In fact; website really isn’t the right word – it’s much more then that – it’s a portal for all of your social MEDIA content. In fact, the more I play around with it – the more amazed I am at what you can do with it, and how it integrates so smoothly with all of your social media networks. It’s simply awesome! If you like to share life – you should use Posterous!

I really enjoying sharing life with others. I love connecting with people. I believe God created us to glorify Him, and one of the main ways we do that is by being in a right relationship with Him, and with others. Connecting with others. I believe God put in each of us a desire to want to do just that. To connect with other people; to share life with others, etc…which is one reason I enjoy being “extremely relational”. I enjoy sharing life with other people – I like to share videos, pictures, status updates, twitt’s – life. Posterous makes it really easy for me to share my pictures, videos, etc using Twitter. It’s also very simple to upload media to all of your “networks” at once. In a nutshell – it’s great!

John did a great job of explaining what Posterous is and does, so I”m not going to retype what he already wrote, but you should read his post – now.
I’ll end by simply saying

“Posterous makes it REALLY easy to share life. If you enjoy sharing life through Social media – go sign up!”

Let me know what you think about Posterous. Do you use it? Have you tried it? Have you subscribed to my updates?

facebook isn’t for strangers

June 12, 2009 in life with 5 Comments

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I’ve spend enough time on twitter, my personal website, online video games, facebook, and a million other social networks to know one thing – there are some WEIRD people out there.  Don’t get me wrong – I’m weird…but there are some people out there who are REALLY weird.

Tonight facebook allowed its users to select a personal domain for them to use – for life.  Yah, I got one.  But I’m not going to become “friends” with everyone who sends me a friend request.  For one, if I have never met you (or talked to you) we’re not friends.  Sorry – we could be friends one day, but we aren’t yet.

I have people all the time send me requests that I don’t even know.  If I don’t accept your “friend” request, please don’t take it personal, but I use facebook to connect with “real life” friends, family, students that I minister to , etc – and can’t risk someone going through all my “real life” friends and trying to “add” them as a “friend.”  (i.e. – “facebook stalking” them) Or prehaps getting mad at me for something I post on my blog, or say through twitter, and want to stalk me via my “real” friends on facebook.  I can’t risk it. I enjoy meeting people – so maybe one day we can be both “real” friends, and “facebook” friends.  But until then, let’s start with twitter, then take it to the next level!

How about you – do you keep your social networks separate?  Do you add everyone who sends you a “friend” request to facebook?  Is one more personal then the other?

American Idol Winner Kris Allen Sings God of this City – Does it matter?

May 25, 2009 in life with 5 Comments

A few days ago I posted a video of American Idol winner, Kris Allen, performing “God of This City” at New Life Church. To my surprise it has caused quite a bit of discussion on the comment section of that post, and on Twitter. It seems to boil down to this questions :

“Is a person’s faith a deciding factor on who you vote for (if you vote) on American Idol?”

In other words does the person you vote for (or would vote for) have to be of the same faith as you in order to get your vote? Is that something that is important to you? Do you google every contestant to find out what their faith views are before you vote?

I’m sure many of my Christian friends will quickly proclaim “YES – it does indeed matter to me!”

To which I ask “Why?” (or “Why not?” – if your answer is no)

I’m not saying there is a “right” or “wrong” way to look at this – I’m just curious to hear your thoughts on the matter.

Also – I’d like to take it a step further. How does the faith of another person affect your decision to interact with them? Does it matter?

For instance; The dentist who cleans your teeth – does his faith determine if you’ll use his services or not?
If there was two dentists next door to each other – one who had really bad service – but was a believer, the other, the best dentist in your city – but he hated God – which dentist would you choose? Why? (and it just so happens that these are the only two dentists in the whole world, the other ones all retired – sorry – you have to choose!)

What about your boss? If you are a person of faith, could you work for a person who hated God?

What about the products you buy? If Steve Jobs hated God would you still use your iPhone?
{SIDENOTE – Did you know that Jews for Jesus has attempted to share the Gospel with Steve Jobs? In fact they even made a tract just for him – take a look}

I Just wanted to throw those thoughts out to get you thinking. Please leave a comment, I’d be very interested to hear what you have to say in regards to this topic!
(by the way – here is the link to the post with Kris Allen’s video of God of this City in case you want to watch it again, or read the comments.)

-Rick

Catalyst One Day

May 18, 2009 in photos with 4 Comments

I just got home from Catalyst One Day, and I am beat!  I learned some valuable leadership tools from Andy Stanley, and  got to met (for the first time in real life) tons of awesome people who I had gotten to know online!

Not only that, Andy Stanley gave me a toy gun, and toy badge (long story) – so I would say it was a win for the day!

As usual I took lots of visuals.  Here are a few for you to enjoy! (Bonus points if you can id some of the people in these photos!)

double popped – @ScottHodge

February 27, 2009 in double popped, videos with 4 Comments

Scott Hodge is honestly one of the “hippest” people I know! Scott is the senior pastor of The Orchard Valley Community Church, a twitter king, and just looks “cool!” Scott will also be leading a break out session at The Orange Conference in April, and he talks about that session in this video! {Speaking of The Orange Conference, I’ll also be there in a very unique way, and would love to see you there!}
{warning : Scott must have been on dial up while we were recording this interview. You will see why on certain parts of the video. I just wanted to say sorry in advance for any issues with the video quality!}

{also if you liked the video, have something to say to Scott, have feedback, or want to be on the next “double popped” – please leave a comment below! – Also I would love to connect with you on twitter!}

Pete Wilson Interview On Social Media, Life, and Family

February 18, 2009 in double popped with 45 Comments

I had the awesome chance to “double pop” Pete Wilson, Pastor of Cross Point Church. What a great guy! He is just as cool, and humble, in person as he comes across in his sermons, blog, and twitter. Check out the video to hear his thoughts on some key questions!

{as always – if you would like to be on the next “double popped,” have any feedback, or want to just say “hi” – please leave a comment in the comment section!}

Pete Wilson is the pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville and the author of “Plan B: What To Do When God Doesn’t Show Up Like You Thought He Would.”

Twitter schooled me 7000 edition

February 7, 2009 in journey, videos with 12 Comments

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What I’ve learned at 7,000 Twitter updates.

1. Twitter moves fast. Very Fast. If you follow a lot of people, and you blink, you WILL miss something. {p.s. – it’s ok to miss something!}
2. A lot of people on twitter have the same job – “internet gurus” or “SEO experts.” {I have no idea what either does by the way.}
3. You can use twitter to do some REALLY cool stuff. {like this}
4. You can almost become obsessed with how many people are “following” you. {You just have to learn to not care about it.}
5. People that you interact with on twitter are REAL people. There is actually a human {and often times a family} behind that avatar.
6. Twitter is really a time machine. {for instance, one day I sat down at 1pm and starting using twitter, one second later it was 5 pm – crazy!}
7. I have no idea how Guy Kawasaki makes his living.{I mean it, I really have no clue – do you?}
8. People who don’t use twitter have no idea why people who do, do!
9. Even though it’s really awesome to build so many new friendships on twitter, I have to be really careful to cultivate the friendships I already have. {this includes friends, wives, dogs, fish, etc.}
10. (TweetDeck) + (Any other thing) = “Any other thing “not getting done very well, or taking much more time then it normally takes.
11. My relationship with God is more important then my relationship with Twitter. {much more important.}
12. My relationship with my wife is more important then my relationship with Twitter. {much more important.}
13. It’s sort of funny {and annoying} when someone sends a message to me and says “hey will you follow me?” {unless of course it’s @human3rror, in that case that you should follow him, because he really likes followers!
14. There’s a guy on twitter who has over 20 Emmy’s! {plus he’s a Christians, my friend, and I’ve hung out with twice now – sweet!}
15. There are some SUPER cool people on twitter. {I’ve gotten to meet MANY of them first hand!}
16. When someone sends you DM they expect you answer it within five minutes. {note – I don’t take my laptop in the bathtub with me!}
17. It hurts the feelings of my friends and family when I use twitter on my iphone while we are out at dinner or just hanging out. {they are super nice, and would never tell me that, but I know it does. I really need to stop doing that.}
18. I do not need to get on twitter during church service, or class lecture. {I need to stop doing this also…..}
19. I sort of like it when I post a picture on twitter, and it gets a lot of views. {any other people out there check their picture views?}
20. Twitter is funnier then a “beachball at a Nickelback concert”! {pop quiz – anyone know where that quote comes from?}

These are just a few things I’ve learned at 7,000 twitter posts. What are some things you’ve learned. {Rather you are at 70 posts, or 70,000.}

innovation 3 aka nationwide tweet up

January 30, 2009 in journey, life, videos with 30 Comments

Innovation 3 has come and gone; but you know what they say – videos are forever.  {actually I don’t think anyone says that!}  What you are about to see is REAL, the names have NOT been changed to protect anyone.  Everyone in this video is a REAL person.

Speaking of “real” – I must say it was really awesome being able to meet so many people for the first time whom I have known on twitter for sometime.  It was great to put a person with a profile!  When I think about online-social-networking (as a means), doing this sort of stuff is certainly one of the ends (so to speak).

Being able to meet people, connect with people, hear people’s stories, hear people’s heart; is what being “created to relate” is all about!  I enjoy these sorts of “events.”  I enjoy being around all sorts of people.  I enjoy meeting connecting with people all sorts of ways!

I am so thankful that God did not make us to simply live alone, but He has blessed us by creating so many people (and so many creative ways to meet those people) that there is no excuse for anyone to live “alone,” especially in this social-networking-society we live in!  I am so thankful for the chance to have meet all of these people in the flesh.  I look forward to these types of “events” in the future!

One more thing – please leave your infomation in the comments section.  Your twitter name, your website address, what you do, what you dream, what your goals for 2009 are, heck, you can even tell us what your favorite flavor of ice-cream is.  I’d just like to “continue the conversation.”

One last {serious} word – if I know you {on any level}, thank you for letting me walk through life with you.  I really do consider it an honor! 

{rick}.

{p.s. – I still have MUCH more footage from this event that I will be posting, so check back soon.  You won’t want to miss the innovation 3 after party!  Trust me!}