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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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Trout Lake Mastercraft Brochure
God works in mysterious ways. Some are faster than others. This fundraising brochure shared an opportunity to expand the fleet of speedboats at Trout Lake Camps, building on the experience of fun and adventure that draws kids to camp and enables ministry.
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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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Trout Lake Day Camps
Trout Lake Camps ON TOUR Put a little TLC in your VBS. Postcard with details about day camps, local VBS’s organized and run by Trout Lake Camps.
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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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