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Tweet Old Post Wordpress Plugin

February 23, 2010 // 17114 Comments »http://lifeasmission.com/blog/2010/02/tweet-old-post-wordpress-plugin/Tweet+Old+Post+Wordpress+Plugin2010-02-23+22%3A38%3A31JR+Rozko

Here’s the thing I hate most about blogging – it’s all about the now.  Doesn’t matter how much time you invested or how much thought you put into that post or series birthed by your creative genius – your precious content is forgotten and buried faster than Superman tweeting on speed!

Enter Tweet Old Post.

I stumbled upon this brilliant wordpress plugin recently that resurrects that old content and brings it into the land of the living.

You select an interval (I’ve chosen twice a day), and BOOM – your old content, selected at random based on the criteria you choose, is tweeted.  It even comes packaged with the ability to choose a link shortening service.

One downside – as I have figured out since beginning to use this plugin.  If your readers/followers don’t pay attention, they will think that you’re posting new content and ask you if you’re alright after your car wreck (that happened 4 years ago!).

So, my fellow bloggers, hop on over to here and tell Ajay thanks for writing a plugin that helps us repopulate the interwebs with the precious fruit of our labors.

Posted in blogging, social networking

The Scripture & Culture Seminar with Darrell Guder and Andy Crouch

October 24, 2009 // 1303No Comments »http://lifeasmission.com/blog/2009/10/the-scripture-culture-seminar-with-darrell-guder-and-andy-crouch/The+Scripture+%26+Culture+Seminar+with+Darrell+Guder+and+Andy+Crouch2009-10-24+14%3A44%3A11JR+Rozko

Get in on this!

Here’s the twitter stream for the #ecclesia hastag
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Posted in church, conference, culture, leadership, missional, social networking

Boston Bound: Lookin for Tips

October 14, 2009 // 12744 Comments »http://lifeasmission.com/blog/2009/10/boston-bound-lookin-for-tips/Boston+Bound%3A+Lookin+for+Tips2009-10-15+04%3A16%3A13JR+Rozko

I have had something like a 15 year love affair with Boston, which is strange for someone who has never actually been there, but that’s about to change.  Amy and I are currently planning a long weekend in Boston and various excursions from there around New England.

So, who’s got the 411 on Boston and the surrounding area?  What and where do we need to make sure to check out?  What’s our best bet for scenic, yet affordable accommodations?  Looking for any advice anyone wants to throw our way, thanks.

Posted in Amy, social networking, travles

Job Search 2.0

October 1, 2009 // 12295 Comments »http://lifeasmission.com/blog/2009/10/job-search-2-0/Job+Search+2.02009-10-01+21%3A06%3A12JR+Rozko

If it wasn’t obvious by my open letter to HR, I have been looking for work.

When Amy and I got engaged, we went round and round about whether to be in Memphis where I was pastoring or in Chicago where she was just getting settled into a pretty major career position.  Through lots of prayer, discernmnet, and discussion, Chicago won out.

I moved up here at the beginning of May and since then, beside keeping myself busy with wedding planning and then getting us settled into a new apartment, I have been teaching an online class, The Emerging Church in the 21st Century, for Fuller Theological Seminary.

With the wedding behind us, the apartment pretty much in order, and the class coming to an end, I am getting more focused on looking for work.

Both because we are so at home in our church community, Life on the Vine, and because we are trying to make decisions that offer us the flexibility to be part of birthing a new missional comminity, I’m not looking for church staff positions.  Instead, I have mainly been looking for staff positions at colleges and universities as well as with non-profit organizations whose work in the Chicagoland area I could get excited about.  I have also given some consideration to working my way into the world of web development through project coordination and information architecture.  I am definitely open to continuing to be involved with online education.

While I am conducting the job search 1.0-style (job boards, websites, and other manner of non-relational means), I’d rather go the route of Job Search 2.0, via relational connections, leveraging the power of social connectivity.

So, at the risk of this being misinterpreted as some sort of act of desperation (IT’S NOT), but because I tend to be a relational networker, I thought I would open my search up to a broader audience to solicit your ideas and feedback.  Anyone, especially those of you who know me well, have any bright ideas about jobs, resources, or people I should try and connect with?  If it helps, here’s a basic resume and CV.

Posted in chicago, community, social networking

Virtual Community & Video Venues

March 20, 2009 // 10282 Comments »http://lifeasmission.com/blog/2009/03/virtual-community-video-venues/Virtual+Community+%26+Video+Venues2009-03-20+20%3A18%3A10JR+Rozko

It’s not a new conversation, but there has been some recent discourse & interest around virtual community and the use of video venues for church communities. I wanted to point you toward a few resources of interest.

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Bob Hyatt has written a great piece entitled, Video Venues: The Death of Preaching.  And I wholeheartedly agree with his thesis as well as closing remarks

…just because God honors our silly methods occasionally doesn’t mean we shouldn’t look for better ways, perhaps less silly, perhaps ones with fewer unintended consequences.

Shane Hipps, an acquaintance from Fuller, has caught some heat for his take on virtual community and in a recent podcast, “The Papacy of Celebrity,” had some good things to say about video venues as well.  The great thing about the perspective Shane is coming from is that he doesn’t need to demonize anything, he’s just trying to be honest about the full scope of these things.

I wouldn’t presume to speak for Bob or Shane, but as I have followed the various discussions and listened to what is being said, it’s because of my heart for spiritual formation that I lament the idea that connecting with people virtually could ever be God’s full intention for community.  More saddening, is the way in which we fail to see how the medium of video venues disfigures some of the most precious characteristics of the gospel and the Body of Christ – not because God can’t show up, but because of the adverse formative effect they have on people.

If my kid steals some money from my wallet, I can probably fix the problem by crushing his hand with a wrench, but the point isn’t just fixing the problem, it’s fixing it in the wright way.  There is no room in the Christian faith for being connected in community “at all cost,” much less for, good preaching “at all cost.”  That just misses the bigger point.  The medium really is the message, they are bound up with one another, which is why, in terms of discipleship, it’s not just about doing the right things, but about doing things the right ways.

Perhaps for utilitarians, the means justify the ends, but for those who follow Christ and his invitation to “pick up your cross and follow me,” the means and the ends are indistinguishable.

Posted in Jesus, church, community, gospel, networking, preaching/teaching, social networking, spiritual formation

Wedding Help

March 19, 2009 // 104215 Comments »http://lifeasmission.com/blog/2009/03/wedding-help/Wedding+Help2009-03-19+15%3A06%3A40JR+Rozko

Amy and I are looking for some help with our wedding and the events (including honeymoon) surrounding it.  Aside from it being a beautiful and memorable day, we are hoping to infuse as much of what we are going to do with theological significance and creativity.  We already have a good number of friends that are going to be vital in helping that to be a reality, but, believers in networking that we are, we’d just assume hear from as many folks as possible.

So, wonderful people out there, what ideas, experiences, and resources do you have that you’d like to share – we’re all ears!

(think… cost saving, creative enhancing, meaning infusing, deal finding, value reflecting, & God-honoring)

Please pass a link to this on to anyone that you think might have something to contribute – facebook it, twitter it, bookmark it, whatever.

Posted in Amy, marriage, social networking