The Power of Umbrellas" get out from behind the counter (http://ping.fm/5vGF2)

No Sacrifice (http://ping.fm/akYzC)

Death Loop of Commentary (http://ping.fm/vdRi6)

Death Loop of Commentary: I want to get messy and then share experiences instead of casting thoughts and opinions from a safe and reasonable distance. (http://ping.fm/PAOzd)

I am eager for change. See The Best Changes (http://ping.fm/aZZj1)

The Multisite Phenomenom: Here to Stay? (http://ping.fm/mniIR)

Christian Standard Interview

Christian Standard Interview: "So multisite is playing a vital role in taking the church to its next expression.
Multisite approach is an important element that sets the prevailing church up to implement and experience more rapidly multiplying approaches that don’t currently exist. Couple that with the new scorecard of the young emerging leaders and you have a perfect storm for future transformation. I’m convinced we’ll look back a decade from now and see that the multisite approach played a vital and critical role in the models that will emerge in the coming decade. It’s possible one of the most important contributions multisite will make is in the mind-set of our leaders to become more reproducing at all levels within the church. ."

Should adults or students be leading students in worship and why? http://ping.fm/W95I8

Great candor Matt Redman! For all blokey blokes http://ping.fm/mzkyj

Only You Can Save by Chris Sligh http://ping.fm/NP7zS

Choosing Thomas (http://ping.fm/b1CTr)

RT @mashable Dual-Screen Laptops?! Yes, They’re Real (and Coming Soon) http://bit.ly/6v9st WOW!

Why is The Church Not As Effective As We Should Be?  Answer:  Church Competition (http://ping.fm/32A87)

Money, Greed, and God (http://ping.fm/R7eBd)

Getting the Job When
You’re Overqualified http://ping.fm/LiRDU

Attracting Young Leaders to Your Team by Brad Lomenick http://ping.fm/CWEn5

In every crisis God is faithful to show His love, to keep His promises and ready to offer His strength. Thanks, Sparky! http://ping.fm/rbwEl

Great mission statement: "Lead people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ" Thanks Andy Stanley! Even I can remember that :-)

If You Are NOT Growing...Beware by Tim Stevens http://ping.fm/z9xsB

We must live the Gospel: What Does the 'Real Church' Look Like? http://ping.fm/6hypz

Missional Small Communities by Ed Stetzer of Lifeway http://ping.fm/O1EKc

JeffLeake CHALLENGE #1: It is not enough for a leader to keep from FALLING BEHIND, great leaders have to stay THINKING AHEAD http://ping.fm/pE8Ln

"God takes full responsibility for the life fully devoted to Him" Charles Stanley

"When you see as God sees, you will do as God says" One of Andy Stanley's great single point messages.

Andy Stanley of Northpoint Church in Atlanta in his book Principle of the Path states “Direction, not intention determines destination”

Leadership is not about making the decision on your own, but owning the decision once it is made. Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast

Great insight into Design at Facebook http://ping.fm/hJ40E

Thanks, Mark Howell! I Love it! Top 10 Reasons to Abandon Small Group Ministry http://ping.fm/kfKkk

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: The Message of Twitter: "Here It Is" and "Here I Am"

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: The Message of Twitter: "Here It Is" and "Here I Am": "But a smart company goes further. We are hearing stories of companies that scanTwitter looking for references to their products and reaching out to consumers to respond to their concerns. In some cases, consumers get quicker and fuller responses to their problems because they posted these problems on Twitter than they get calling the customer service department."

Federal team visits D-Day Memorial for assessment http://ping.fm/T1MZH

Would you do this? Seacoast Church Broadcasts Staff Meetings Live http://ping.fm/Qkk5J

"Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement." http://ping.fm/FEP2V

One-Point Preaching | Willis Wired

One-Point Preaching | Willis Wired

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apophenia: Twitter:

"I vote that we stop dismissing Twitter just because the majority of people who are joining its ranks are there to be social. We like the fact that humans are social. It's good for society. And what they're doing online is fundamentally a mix of social grooming and maintaining peripheral social awareness. They want to know what the people around them are thinking and doing and feeling, even when co-presence isn't viable. They want to share their state of mind and status so that others who care about them feel connected. It's a back-and-forth that makes sense if only we didn't look down at it from outter space. Of course it looks alien. Walk into any typical social encounter between people you don't know and it's bound to look a wee bit alien, especially if those people are demographically different than you."

apophenia: Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?

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God is the best communicator but He often waits to reveal His will until I want it more than any of the options#AndyStanley KnowingGod'sWill

Conversation Agent: Creating the Desire for News

Imagine if the official release also started to include voices from the community. Developers who have worked on an application built on your technology, partners who are white labeling it, or those who are wrapping services around it, how about users? The business ecosystem presented in a form easy to interact with so that it can grow and expand in new ways/opportunities.

Conversation Agent: Creating the Desire for News

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Firefighters need wide range of preparation

"When that alarm rings, the clock starts. Depending on the situation, many lives could be on the line, therefore time is precious. It is the firefighter's job to stay ready because every second counts! Once the firefighter arrives at the scene, he or she may be called upon to climb a ladder, rush into a burning building and/or carry someone of like size to safety. Some fights are short, some last all night or longer, but all are intense."

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Every company is a media company | Tom Foremski: IMHO | ZDNet.com

Every company is a media company | Tom Foremski: IMHO
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"I realized that every company is now a media company. It doesn’t matter if it makes network gear or diapers, every company needs to publish to its various communities, its customers, its staff, it’s neighbors. It needs to know how to produce compelling content, great video, podcasts, etc. And now with this emerging two-way Internet it also needs to learn how to listen, how to get involved in online discussions, how to behave on Facebook or Twitter. Every company needs to master the media technologies of RSS, blogging, and more."

Great interview with Geoff Surratt about Ten Stupid Things that Keep Churches from Growing http://ping.fm/PEzVw

Here's the List of Top Kingdom Ideas: http://ping.fm/cRPcN

Free Nines Conference looks incredible with 9 min video leadership lessons & over 2000 registered! #thenines http://ping.fm/mnhgo

Powerful practices of effective ministry http://ping.fm/eN2mm

“We know He is faithful and don't doubt for a minute that He is in control,” “We are so thankful for the hope we have in Christ.” http://ping.fm/Nws3s

Interesting perspective on the contrast between tradition and popular culture: http://ping.fm/GgHWg

Have you seen this? The Greenback Effect By WARREN E. BUFFETT http://ping.fm/I3Emh

Andy Stanley 5 part podcast LO$T Today millions ... are lost financially. Could you be one of them? http://ping.fm/OgLEo

Great messages by Andy Stanley of #NorthPoint It Came From Within. Guilt-I owe me, Anger-You owe me, Greed-I owe me, Jealousy-God owe's me

SharePoint SEO

SharePoint SEO: "you already have a world-class search engine, the ability to blog and create wikis and discussion boards and perform content targeting.� You already have email based alert notifications, and RSS capabilities.� You have an industry leading workflow platform, multilingual site capabilities, and content retention policies, full blown Document and Record Management and a fully baked Content Management System which is extremely easy for authors to use!� Not to mention the speed of innovation for SharePoint is like no other software product to date.� Not only is Microsoft (worth mentioning happens to be the largest software manufacture in the world) moving SharePoint forward, you can also turn to thousands of other companies who are ALSO pressing onward by constantly releasing SharePoint add-on components, features and enhancements."

"Gladwell goes on to suggest that perhaps the Ivy League resembles a modeling agency more than it does The Marine Corps. But rather than take on that debate here and now, let’s instead focus on the objective of making online education improve anyone with the interest to learn — that is, on treatment effects."

XAML Overview

XAML Overview: "This topic describes the features of the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) language and demonstrates how you can use XAML to write Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications."

Ballmer’s Advice for CIOs � Candid CIO

Ballmer’s Advice for CIOs � Candid CIO: "Ballmer had a number of suggestions, but two stuck with me as being most enlightening.
Firstly, he said that CEOs are frustrated that they have invested so much moneyin IT yet they have little additional insight into their business.� He hears this often.� He did not want to characterize this as business intelligence or push any technical solution.� He shared that even Microsoft with all of their IT expertise does not have data about their total headcount – a revelation that gave me a sense of relief.� He also said that he has a rule for his CFO, never give him data in a format that he cannot manipulate, preferably it would be a pivot table.
Ballmer also suggested that the future of enterprise IT can be found in the consumer arena today.� This was the case with cloud computing and is likely to be the case in such areas as social networking.� As IT professionals we should keep an eye on that space.� It is our crystal ball.� I loved that insight."

Social Media Policy and Employee Guidance � Candid CIO

Social Media Policy and Employee Guidance � Candid CIO: "we have a huge opportunity for employers to turn all of their employees into uber-effective marketers that promote every new and worthy aspect of our services with far more credibility than corporate voice advertising.�"

HOW TO: Get Rid of Annoying Facebook Notifications

HOW TO: Get Rid of Annoying Facebook Notifications: "Click on the “Notifications” button at the bottom right corner in Facebook. Click on “See All.” On the right, you’ll see a long list of every application that sends you notifications, and you can turn them off by unchecking them. Be careful, Facebook’s own applications which are probably useful to you, such as feed comments, are also on the list, so you’ll probably want to leave them checked."

Basement.org: Why Do We Love Rounded Corners? The Answer!

Basement.org: Why Do We Love Rounded Corners? The Answer!: "A rectangle with sharp edges takes indeed a little bit more cognitive visible effort than for example an ellipse of the same size. Our “fovea-eye” is even faster in recording a circle. Edges involve additional neuronal image tools. The process is therefore slowed down.”

Professor N�nni is saying that rounded rectangles are literally easier on the eye. Put another way, compared to square-edged rectangles, rounded rectangles are more computationally efficient for the human brain. To me, this is a revelation. An idea that at the very least demands more investigation."

Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. http://ping.fm/RG8ws

Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming

Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming: "Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

Welcome to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Developer Reference�[SharePoint Designer 2007 Developer Reference]

Welcome to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Developer Reference�[SharePoint Designer 2007 Developer Reference]: "This reference contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer."

Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in Enterprise Search

Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in Enterprise Search: "Summary: Learn how to write SQL syntax queries to return the most relevant results for Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. (4 printed pages)"

Best Practices: Developing Content Types in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Best Practices: Developing Content Types in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Summary: Learn best practices to develop, deploy, and manage custom content types using Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Visual Studio 2008, and scenarios for making updates to existing content types in lists. (13 printed pages)"

Microsoft Showcase: SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Configure a SharePoint Server 2007 Site to Receive E-Mail

Microsoft Showcase: SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Configure a SharePoint Server 2007 Site to Receive E-Mail: "By configuring your Office SharePoint Server 2007 site to receive e-mail messages, you can enable team members to use e-mail to send information, messages, and files directly to different areas of the site. Watch this demo to learn how integrating e-mail can make it easier for your team to communicate."

Dynamically Show/Hide Multiple Web Parts | End User SharePoint

Dynamically Show/Hide Multiple Web Parts | End User SharePoint: "Bryon Wyly writes Codeless Solutions for SharePoint. In this article he’s written a really fun script, demonstrating how to show or hide multiple lists and web parts. It’s like a magic trick - now you see it, now you don’t. And the solution is very easy. Thanks Bryon!"

Create Dynamic Bar and Pie Charts in WSS with any RSS feed: No code required | End User SharePoint

Create Dynamic Bar and Pie Charts in WSS with any RSS feed: No code required | End User SharePoint: "When Ming Fung Yong saw the solution, he found another source of data for feeding the charts: RSS feeds. The charts below were created using the Google Charting API against a SharePoint RSS that is then displayed within a Content Editor Web Part. This is a no code, no assembly solution that can be implemented at the site level."

Project Fakebar: Improvising a Google Toolbar Substitute for Chrome�|�Technologizer

Project Fakebar: Improvising a Google Toolbar Substitute for Chrome�|�Technologizer: "I used two methods to rebuild the Toolbar’s functionality: plain old bookmarks and bookmarklets. The latter are neat bits of JavaScript that let a bookmark do more than just link to pages, and there are a bunch of Google-related ones available around the Web. I used several existing ones that do things similar to Toolbar functions."

Creating tabbed windows in Sharepoint with jQuery | Baris Wanschers

Creating tabbed windows in Sharepoint with jQuery Baris Wanschers: "Today I created a pretty cool interface to display news items. I'm so excited about it that I really would like to share this with you. My goal was to create a display window with three tabs. By clicking the second tab, the current tab will move to the background and the clicked one will be displayed. To see it working, check this jQuery tabs example, which helped me to get it working."

Zone Tabs for SharePoint - Home

Zone Tabs for SharePoint - Home: "As a code sample, ZoneTabs illustrates:
- Creating a ListView server control
- Creating a web part as a composite control
- Using cascading style sheets and images to render tabs
- Creating an editor part to provide custom configuration options
- Using the ASP.NET 2.0 API to manage and control web parts at runtime"

10 Minute Screencast: Create a tabbed, layered interface - no code required | End User SharePoint

10 Minute Screencast: Create a tabbed, layered interface - no code required End User SharePoint: "This screencast shows how simple a solution it is. Within 10 minutes, I am able to create a tabbed interface for managing workshop descriptions. Fun, easy and extremely impressive for your End Users. So impressive, in fact, they won’t even know it’s there."

How to Display SharePoint Blog Post Archives | End User SharePoint

How to Display SharePoint Blog Post Archives End User SharePoint: "Most blog engines allow you to display a list of blog posts grouped by month. Unfortunately out of the box SharePoint blog sites do not give you that ability. Here is a simple solution on how to overcome that limitation."

EndUserSharePoint.com: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Customizing a Task List | End User SharePoint

EndUserSharePoint.com: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Customizing a Task List End User SharePoint: "Yes, it does allow you to assign items to individuals and groups and give them, what I like to call “suggested”, “Due Date” on its completion, but what if it takes them longer to complete the task? What if they have a large number of tasks assigned…how do you set up a decent view to display and prioritize them (overdue items, upcoming due dates, number of days left to complete, etc.)? How can you go back and audit their performance (Do they normally complete tasks on time?)?"

Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint - Part 2 (ScreenCast) | End User SharePoint

Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint - Part 2 (ScreenCast) End User SharePoint: "Create a SharePoint solution that will allow calendars in various locations in a SharePoint implementation to be aggregated into one, Master Calendar. The solution must use the Out-of-the-Box functionality provided by SharePoint, with no server programming."

Fun with Colors: The Color-Coded Calendar | End User SharePoint

Fun with Colors: The Color-Coded Calendar End User SharePoint: "After watching Mark Miller’s Screen-Cast, Color Code a SharePoint Calendar, I realized this was the perfect solution for transforming a payroll schedule on an Excel spreadsheet into a SharePoint Calendar to make it more visually appealing and user-friendly."

EndUserSharePoint.com: Email and SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 1 | End User SharePoint

EndUserSharePoint.com: Email and SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 1 End User SharePoint: "This article shows that SharePoint Designer enables us to send emails with dynamic subjects and dynamic bodies via the “build dynamic string” action."

Use freedom unselfishly. 'WWJD' - about healthcare reform? http://ping.fm/PQxCT

Of course! Huckabee: 2 States in Holy Land 'Unrealistic' http://ping.fm/jDLZX

Today is my first day as a PerotSystems employee @Owens & Minor!

is celebrating 35 yrs of marriage to the most wonderful woman on the planet!

Danny Wahlquist Home Page (http://ping.fm/qjGPx)

Testing out http://ping.fm/3j6iV

North Point Online (http://ping.fm/TVx5k)

Really powerful - Backup and Search Your Friends' Tweets with Google Reader http://ping.fm/IugBM

John - The Gospel of Glory and Grace by Sparky Pritchard at p://www.immanuelbaptist.org/components/com_sermonspeaker/media/20090809am.mp3

What a truth: "At the root of all discipline is the disciplined use of time. Without this one, there are no other disciplines." Don Whitney

enjoyed WALKING through the Charleston Market with my bride of almost 35 years!

A Revolution of Compassion: One of my heroes died this week http://ping.fm/qIc6n

enjoyed 8 #AndyStanley #Northpoint messages while driving today. Sure glad he tries to get to one memorable point in each :-)

Great potential:FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request http://ping.fm/OjE7D

is encouraged seeing the Danny & Joan Ilagan disciple Tim & Emily. It didn't hurt that one of Danny's passages was my favorite, Eph 4:29 :-)

We are "50 percent dechurched-people who grew up in church but quit going because the church ceased to be relevant for them." Mark Batterson

Hallelujah! I got a call from HR, and my job offer is finally approved!

is ready for #IBC softball champs at Westhampton at 7!

The twins want to be the Big Kahuna from Baby Geniuses 2. I think we are in trouble :-)

Great communion service at IBC-Boast only in the Lord,1Cor1&Jer9:23 & worship song "The Power of the Cross" by Gettys http://ping.fm/U3EnI

August 1, a great day for a first sunburn of the year :-)

Quotes: The Founders As Christians, A collection of quotes from the Founding Fathers.
www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=78

Enjoying David Barton of #Wallbuilders http://ping.fm/vs7Yp on #Huckabee What a heritage we have in this nation!

Andy Stanley is betting the farm on doubling groups http://ping.fm/Tusfo Great summary of Northpoint groups.

I believe I will have more kingdom impact with the 10 people that meet in my home on Monday night than I will with the thousands-AndyStanley