You might be a twitter-holic if:
- You hit the refresh button to see if it REALLY is updating every two minutes.
- You watch Twittervision and get depressed when it says no new twitters.
- You get angry when the twitter page won’t load as quickly as you want it to.
- When twitter goes down, you go back to your blog, but it’s just not the same.
- You start talking in short bursts of 140 characters or less.
- You have more friends on twitter than you’ve ever had in real life.
- You start tweeting about your dog or cat.
- You get an unusually large cell phone bill due to your constant tweeting.
- You’re reading this post because you read about it on twitter.
My Squidoo Lenses on youth ministry are now ranked 314 and 340 out of 57,276. Thanks for heading over there and rating them for me. Want to check them out again and help me get in the top 100? Here they are:
Ministry to Troubled Youth (lots of additions yesterday afternoon): 314
Discipleship in Youth Ministry: 340
I’ll be using the following videos in my intensive class in January:
Maybe more. But these are the ones I’m definitely using so far.
My Squidoo lens on Ministry to Troubled Youth is ranked 844 out of 57,022. That’s not too bad, but I’d love to make it to the top 100. I’m thinking that if my friends who read this blog will go over there (click here), check it out, and rate it, I might get into the top 100 this week. So, go check it out.
While you’re on Squidoo, check out my Youth Discipleship lens, too. And while you’re there, make your own lens. It’s pretty fun.
I spent some time on PBwiki.com this morning, thinking through the possible uses of wikis for ministry. It seems like it could be a pretty useful service for youth workers.
From wikipedia:
A wiki is a type of website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring.
In case you didn’t know, youth ministry really should be a type of collaborative outing. We should be working with a team of people (including volunteers, student leaders, and parents). The setup of wikis makes it useful to collaborate with people on different things. Off the top of my head, a few examples of how you could use a wiki in youth ministry are right here:
- Trips: The details for mission trips, camps, and retreats could all be easily handled and reported with a wiki. On a wiki, you could include updated information on where you’ll be going, things to bring, who’s going, and all that other stuff you usually hand out in a parent’s information packet. This information could be available to parents as you get it, if you update the wiki as you plan your trip. Students ans parents both will know all the details easily by going to the wiki page. Also, if you have a team planning these things, all they have to do is update the wiki page when they get their part of the planning done. You’ll have all the info right away.
- Events: If you have various staff members working on an event, you can get them to collaborate through the wiki. For example, the games guy could explain the games they will be using at an event. The worship leader and pastor can collaborate on the theme together, placing the worship order right there for all to see. The snack people could decide who’s bringing what, etc.
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