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Just found this via a Twitter from Michael Hyatt. It’s five parts–and he spends the intro of part one centering everyone on the reason for the industry with bits and pieces of his personal testimony. “At 16, I found religion… and became an atheist… It was my first faith experience–being an atheist.”

Later he gets into a list of specific things in the industry that encourage him. As he says in part 5, “It’s easy to complain about your industry, but some retailers are experiencing real growth.” You can read a summary of the presentation at his blog.

Here’s the first part:

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Just saw this on Publisher’s Weekly. It was announced yesterday. That’s right. Thomas Nelson will no longer attend the primary CBA tradeshow, ICRS. I’m not sure whether this means they are leaving the Christian Booksellers Association, or just no longer attending the tradeshow.

Update: Michael Hyatt weighed in on this in the comments. They aren’t leaving the CBA, just no longer attending ICRS. He pointed people to a Q&A about this specific issue on his blog.

At any rate, you need to know this stuff. So keep reading and be sure to click through to the articles as well.

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Lately, L. L. Barkat and I have been pretty busy trying organize everything we know about social media for a presentation at Mt. Hermon. Yesterday, I presented some of what I’ve learned about social media to the San Antonio Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

I promised the AFP people to share the slideshow online. Here it is…
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At FastCompany this month, Clive Thompson asks, “Is the Tipping Point Toast?” He makes a good point that “your average slob is just as likely as a well-connected person to start a huge new trend.”

Why should any readers of GoodWordEditing.com care?

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50,000 words each week. That’s how much people are writing as participants of HighCallingBlogs.com. A new draft of a nonfiction book about faith and work–each week! How awesome is that?

Gordon and I are slowly getting a handle on the gargantuan task of managing the network of HighCallingBlogs.com.

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Gabe Lyons, author of the new book unchristian says, “Just be there.” That’s right. Show up and participate in the culture. Be in the world, not of it. Get out of the cocoon, and make friends with Hollywood, Broadway, and Fifth Avenue.

Update: Thanks to L.L. for catching my ridiculous stupid typo in the headline. “Gage” for “gauge.”

My good friend, L.L., is coining a new term and using Blogger in an interesting way to build community for her upcoming book: Stone Crossings. I haven’t read the book yet (because it doesn’t come out until April 2008), but I’m excited about the premise.

L.L. first posted about her wog concept at Seedlings In Stone a few weeks ago.

Pretty quickly, several friends pointed out a problem with the word she coined.

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My wife wants to be Rachel Ray. Based on the dinner, she cooked last night, I’d say she’s well on her way! Pork chops with cooked apples. Homemade macaroni and cheddar with broccoli and curly, spiral noodles instead of tube macaroni.

At our house the Food Network is a favorite channel. We subscribe to Rachel Ray’s magazine. We buy her books. Our daughter has even adopted Rachel Ray’s signature word.

“Mommy, this is YUM-o!” she says.

Which got me thinking about context. I’ve heard statistics about cookbooks being one of the most popular selling genres in publishing. And travel books. Why is that?

Read the rest of this article at Writer… Interrupted.

I’m not sure how I feel about book publishers trying to use video to promote books, but this book looks pretty cool for my six-year-old daughter.

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It’s late. My kids are in bed. My wife is still in a corset pretending to be Gwendolyn from The Importance of Being Earnest.

And I wanted to play around with an interesting little widget I saw on ProBlogger this morning. AdaptiveBlue’s SmartLinks. They’re apparently using it or experimenting using it to promote their b5media blog network. Since that network is one of the models I’m following for HighCallingBlogs.com, I took note. At this point only 10 out of nearly 300 b5media blogs are showing up in the smartlink badge. I’ll be curious to see where they go with it.

So that’s the thing in my sidebar that may or may not become a community tool for HighCallingBlogs.com.

HighCallingBlogs, meet AdaptiveBlue. AdaptiveBlue, meet us. Maybe we’ll be fast friends. Maybe we’ll chat about the weather and move on. Who knows.