June 2010

June 14, 2010

The Gospel is the antidote to terror

http://bit.ly/bPVyqA – Lee Grady shares the story of a brave Nigerian risking his life to win militants and terrorists to Christ.

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June 14, 2010

Head vs. Heart

http://bit.ly/9KwxSm – IN Smart Heart or a Well-Bred Head we learn how we should recruit people who are passionate about our vision, not just competent. Skills can be trained.

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June 14, 2010

Everyone communicates…

http://bit.ly/d5vQvS – …few connect. John Maxwell’s new book. The title itself is worth contemplating. Are you communicating… or connecting?

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June 14, 2010

Singularity University

http://nyti.ms/9wZF3U – Sponsored in part by Googlers, Singularity University helps promote technologies that will lead to the day when a computer is smarter than a human.

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June 14, 2010

AA successfully changes behavior

http://bit.ly/cnhFzL – The methods of Alcoholics Anonymous (a highly swarmish organization) are shown in this study to have enormous stickiness if a person perseveres in the program for at least one year. It takes that long, apparently, to impart the values and behaviors.

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June 14, 2010

Child Soldiers in Somalia

http://nyti.ms/92zSuY – a 12-year-old “is shouldering an…assault rifle, and working for a military that is substantially armed and financed by the United States.” Good look into the facts of child soldiers.

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June 14, 2010

Using the Internet for good

http://bit.ly/drd1UF – Youtube begins a series of blog posts exploring the issues around human rights and video in partnership with WITNESS, which supports people using video to document & expose human rights violations.

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June 14, 2010

US identifies vast riches of minerals in Afghanistan

http://nyti.ms/cmTftO – NYT: $1 trillion worth of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan. Someone will next suggest outsourcing the war to a private contractor… Update: a reality check – http://bit.ly/chByNq.

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June 14, 2010

Hope and the magic lottery

http://bit.ly/boKLE4 – Seth Godin writes insightfully on the need to avoid “magic lottery” thinking (find one person who provides the shortcut to the top) and commit to the long, hard work of seeing a vision accomplished.

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June 13, 2010

Will persecution happen in the USA?

Ever hear someone talking about how persecution is coming to the United States – how soon Christians will be forced underground. Ever hear it said with a tone of anticipation: “I can’t wait for the good new days when we’ll be hunted and forced into hiding.” (Well, perhaps not quite those words.) I have traveled [...]

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June 13, 2010

Keystroke sounds tell which keys pressed

http://bit.ly/bsaeBu – Economist: audio recordings of keyboard clatter can be used to reconstruct an accurate transcript of what was typed, because individual keys make individual sounds.

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June 11, 2010

Three Leaders, Three Functions

http://bit.ly/98fT6c – role of Visionary, Strategic, and Managerial leaders. Which one are you? does your org have all 3?

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June 11, 2010

The problem with mass evangelism

Here are some of the problems with mass evangelism (as I have seen it) (there are of course also many benefits): 1. We do not build long-term relationships with those we evangelize–the evangelist is the guy who blows into town, hands out tracts, through the force of his wonderful personality sees lots of fruit, and [...]

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June 11, 2010

Insect Swarms: Cockroaches

http://bit.ly/dwOXUl – Eww. Cockroaches prefer to dine in a group, demonstrates an unexpected collective decision-making process.

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June 11, 2010

World’s largest March for Jesus?

http://bit.ly/aHzWW1 – 1 million march in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a celebration that lasted for 12 hours across 2.5 miles. Is this the largest?

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June 11, 2010

International Population Movements

http://bit.ly/cBzEpv – more on demography, Missions Mandate reviews “The age of migration” by Stephen Castles & Mark Miller.

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June 11, 2010

Sharing with 4 billion oral learners

http://bit.ly/cpEdk2 – Grant Lovejoy contributes a paper to the Lausanne Global Conversation on reaching oral learners.

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June 11, 2010

American evangelicals for immigration reform

http://bit.ly/bpOqPE – Baptists & others call for reforms to secure USA borders, provides path for earned, legal status and/or citizenship for illegals seeking it.

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June 11, 2010

A population crash

http://bit.ly/ckGHrn – Fred Pearce has written a book about the impact of women having fewer children. He gives an overview in Scientific American.

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June 10, 2010

Folksonomies & Controlled Vocabulary

http://bit.ly/aYcfpa – folksonomies (user-based tagging) is useful in crowdsourcing but controlled vocabularies (defined terms) are essential for finding things quickly. Think of “unreached” or “missional” – both have become “folksonomies” – many different meanings for the same word.

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