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Exponential Conference Speakers on Twitter.

ExponentialWent through the speaker list for the Exponential Conference and picked out some folks I think have stuff to say for us as we are on mission with Jesus in Europe. I went to the trouble of finding their twitter feeds. Some are better tweeters than others but here are the links if you want to save some time and get some good input.
Before you do, here’s the link with all their bios on one page. Exponential Conference Speakers Page.
(BTW, you all owe me big time for this… but I can be bought for coffee.)
Louie Giglio
Mark Batterson
Noel Castellanos
Francis Chan
Steve Childers
Shane Claiborne
Neil Cole
Caleb Crider
Mark DeYmaz
Dave Gibbons
Hugh Halter
Bob Harrington
Alan Hirsch
Chris Hodges
Larry McCrary
Reggie McNeal
Scott Thomas
Matt Smay
Ed Stetzer

No time like the present

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Innovation part 1: Doing what no one else is doing.

Apple used to have a slogan that, while grammatically incorrect, made me feel understood. It simply said, “Think different.” My wife refers to it as my “random access memory”. I often wonder if something isn’t quite right with me because I never tend to process things like everyone else.
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A White Christmas in Europe

I’m in Amsterdam over the holidays with more snow than they’ve seen since the early 80’s. The children in the neighborhood are in full construction mode with snow-forts going up like condos in a boom economy inhabited by snowball warriors and strange giants with carrot noses.
The adults however aren’t quite as amused. I was trying [...]

Many hats make a busy cat.

This past year, I had the rare (for me) experience of concentrating 100% of my efforts in one direction in the establishing of Clear Media here in Ireland. Then in July, I pulled out of the company to make room for the owner of the company, along with some young Irish believers to take over [...]