I had a great time up in Cambridge, Ontario Canada last week at the Reconnect Conference. A couple people asked for the clips I played during my talk so without further delay I give you:
A couple weeks ago at re:create conference in Franklin, TN the conversation was ripe for bringing up a book that came to my attention a year ago when I saw Clay Shirky speak at SXSWi (check out my notes from this mind blowing talk and listen to the audio). The book is called Cognitive Surplus and the ideas in it are some of the most important concepts for leaders to understand in the new media reality that we now live.
Some of the brilliant minds I connected with at re:create thought it would be a good idea to do a blog to blog book review/conversation on Cognitive Surplus. I like the book so much I’m always down for reading it again. I’m currently re-reading Here Comes Everybody, also by Clay Shirky, so it’s fitting to dig into Cognitive Surplus again.
Head over to the blogs of the others involved (Adam Herod, Amanda Sims, Chris Branscome, David Ballard) and get yourself a copy of the book and start digging in. Next week one of us will post the first post on the first chapter and then we’ll see what happens.
I just watched the documentary; Best Worst Movie. The doc takes a look at the phenomenon of the rise of, what some consider to be, the worst movie ever made to cult status 20+ years after its release. Best Worst Movie documents the actors from the film as they discover that people all over the country have mysteriously fallen in love with, what they themselves considered to be a horrible movie, that they were embarrassed to have been in. Somewhere around 2007 people started to gather in large groups to view the film and throw parties themed after Troll 2. This escalated into screenings at sold out theaters that had to turn people away because the demand was so high.
The sermon…it’s come quite far since Jesus stood on the ‘mount’ and delivered a timeless message. I believe the current format in which we execute a ‘sermon’ is fairly well broken. The job a pastor hires a sermon to perform in 2012 is the same as in 1912 or 1812 yet the sermon format is having less and less effect on culture. Jesus could more or less start a riot with an eight minute illustration yet the average pastor can’t get 100 people to change their behavior after 40 minutes of multi-media supported exposition.
Maybe 40 minutes isn’t long enough? Earlier this month my ‘sermon’ at Gateway Church was a week long! Let me break it down for you.
I blogged this story a few years ago and this past Sunday I shared it at Gateway Church.
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