I have been doing Mobile Technology Needs Analysis for clients and friends for a few years. It used to be very cut and dry. you worked through a few questions and you are done…T-Mobile changed that for me in October. Thanks…
The questions used to be (which works for everyone but T-Mobile):

Who is the dominant carrier in the area? (this can [...]

There are some great guest posts on Morethandodgeball.com while Josh Griffin is out of the country. I am scheduled for my turn on March 9th. Watch for it. I asked some very challenging questions that need answered in today’s church.

Every so often, I run the reports on my server that tell how many page-views (or “hits”) that the various sites I administrate (BrentLacy.com, and several others..). I was very pleasantly suprised to see the traffic numbers for MinistryPlace.Net have been increasing beyond what I could imagine. Because of the increased traffic, there are a couple small changes on the [...]

This is an informal survey of SYMC attendees:
Who are you?
Chuch/Denomination
Size of Church
State
Number of years in Youth Ministry
Full-Time/Part-Time/Volunteer
Have a wonderful time of refreshing and training! I’ll See you there in the morning!

I don’t want to be “that guy”. You know the one that when he makes a blog post, the interwebs are automatically a-flurry with the scripts, plugins, and black magic that reposts it to twitter, facebook, and who knows what else…on ALL their accounts. So MinistryPlace.Net has its own Facebook  fan page to keep a lot of clutter off my [...]

I finished up my new business card design in time for SYMC, and I even printed some before I noticed…
See if you can spot the typo…first person to spot it and track me down at SYMC, I’ll buy you a cup of coffee or something…

Fox Charlotte ran a story this Sunday on the launch of a new church in the Charlotte area, called Transformation Church.
“This is an incredible day. Several months ago we had no building, no money, no anything, and now transformation church has been launched,”
Gray says. After serving as co-pastor at a church in South Charlotte, Gray is branching out, bringing his [...]

This Friday I leave for the Simply Youth Ministry Conference in Chicago, IL. This will be my first time at SYMC, after several years of going to the Youth Specialties NYWC in various cities. My goals for the weekend:

Refreshing of the Spirit – It’s been a hard few months adjusting to a new town, new position, and building the foundations [...]

NY Times and Cnet have both recently run stories on a new site called ChatRoulette.com (lack of link intentional). I applaud both for their warning parents of this site. The premise of the site is this: you connect via webcam with random people from all over the globe for chatting. The downside: there is no way of knowing who you [...]

Man, this would have been sweet last week for the Super Bowl Big Game….
Here is the Original Link [Museum of Idolatry]

The new Pew Survey showed that teens are not exactly using tech the way we thought…
The findings show that the Internet isn’t just prevalent in our lives, it is our lives. Ninety-three percent of teens ages 12 to 17 go online, 75% of them own a cell phone, and 66% say they text. In fact, 58% of 12-year-olds now have [...]

Fox News 31 in Denver recently ran a story about teens getting sexual solicitations from adults over Xbox Live. I was first a bit surprised when i read this story, then it made sense. Sexual predators did not change to make this start happening. They just continued the behavior that they usually operate with. To find a target that is [...]