“One of the worst things you can do to your creatives, artists, and designers is treat them like plumbers, mechanics, and janitors, held to the expectations of magicians, wizards, and geniuses.”

Adam DeVarney

 

Above is a powerful video on the Boston Marathon events titled, “Five Days in April”.

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John Saddington asks you to dream about a world where you have “complete creative control and publishing freedom with the ability to publish filtered photos directly to your WordPress blog!”

Well, that dream will hopefully become a reality.

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Getting Engaged Ruined Facebook For Me

In the second of James K. A. Smith’s three-volume theology of culture, Imagining the Kingdom, the Smith expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his acclaimed Desiring the Kingdom.

Drawing on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Pierre Bourdieu, this book helps readers understand and appreciate the bodily basis of habit formation and how liturgical formation–both “secular” and Christian–affects one’s fundamental orientation to the world.

Below are video interviews about Smith’s two books:

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Social Pros Podcast

March 11, 2013 — Leave a comment

If you are wanting to learn more about social media then you should be listening to the Social Pros Podcast – Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media.

Each 30 minute episode includes:

  1. Interview with a leading social media strategist, manager, director of community, or similar working for a corporation or organization.
  2. Social Media Stat of the Week, discussed and ratified or debunked by Jay Baer and Jeff Rohrs.
  3. Social Pros Shoutout, where the weekly guest shares 2-3 of his or her social media heroes and where you can find them around the web.

Social Pros shines the spotlight on social media practitioners, people doing the real work for real companies.

Today at SXSW in Austin, TX, Marvel Comics announced a jaw-dropping promotion on the digital comic store. Over 700 free #1 issues of Marvel Comics from the past and present are now free to download through the end of Tuesday, March 12. Marvel is taking aim at attracting comic book readers both new and veteran with the new initiative.

Download the 700 free #1 issues —> here.