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Trout Lake Camps: Project 365
Minnesota’s Trout Lake Camps celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2007 in grand style and used the opportunity to secure funding into the future. They came up with a fund-raising plan called Project 365, an effort to find 365 people willing to donate $1 a day. Taylor Design Works helmed the project and together we created…
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NextGen Summit Article Online
I spent my New Year’s in California covering the Foursquare NextGen Summit ’07, on assignment writing an article for Advance magazine. The article I wrote, “Generation Change” is now available online.
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Start Seeing Art on MNSpeak
My little side project, Start Seeing Art, made it on the Twin Cities blog MNSpeak today. I’m pretty excited about the exposure. And a little frightened–though so far no one has mocked the rudimentary design, and for that I’m thankful.
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Adopting a Spider Monkey
To celebrate the holiday season Monkey Outta Nowhere adopted a Spider Monkey from the nearby Como Zoo. And no, that doesn’t mean a primate is doing light office work at the Monkey Outta Nowhere headquarters. It just means we’re supporting a local urban zoo that’s a great, low-cost attraction. We hope you and your family–and…
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Monkey Outta Nowhere Launches Local Art Site
About a week ago Monkey Outta Nowhere launched its first independent project, a local art site called Start Seeing Art. The site is all about finding and identifying public art in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, so it can be enjoyed and appreciated. Too often I’ve either not known a work…
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Church Marketing Sucks Gets Press
The church communication and marketing blog Church Marketing Sucks, which I’ve been writing for since the site’s beginning, has been scoring some press lately, including How magazine, an Issue Dynamics interview with yours truly, and the November/December issue of Ministry Today will feature the Communication Toolbox from the Center for Church Communication (the nonprofit parent…
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Blacklisted for Church Marketing Sucks
I’ve been blacklisted because of the word ‘sucks’ for the first time since starting work on Church Marketing Sucks more than three years ago. OK, so ‘blacklisted’ may be a bit harsh (but it makes for a good story). In reality one of my clients will no longer publish my work because of my involvement…
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We Do Low Quality Video Production
I’m proud to say that Monkey Outta Nowhere now offers sub-par video production services. Well, not exactly. But we can do low quality, home made video with the best (or worst?) of them. I’ve been working on marketing for the Foursquare NextGen Summit ’07 (which has a fancy new web site). We were coming up…
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Foursquare NextGen Summit ’07 Gearing Up
One of the projects I’ve been working on this year is the Foursquare NextGen Summit ’07. I haven’t talked about it in a while, but it’s the first youth event the Foursquare denomination has put on in over ten years. And it’s looking to be pretty huge, from the line up (Switchfoot, Rick Warren, Donald…
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60 Years at Trout Lake Camps
Last week Trout Lake Camps celebrated their 60th anniversary with a “Buddy Check” reunion and the launch of the Project 365 fund raising campaign. Monkey Outta Nowhere did some writing and editing work on the “Buddy Check” brochure last year and we worked extensively with Taylor Design Works on the 32-page Project 365 booklet, which…
