“I am tired of apologizing! As much as I know I should just listen to the Frozen soundtrack and just Let It Go!, there comes a time when letting it go is consent! No more! Mike Huckabee, if you want to claim to be a Baptist, a minister, even a Christian, please take some time to read the Bible!”
Source: I’m Tired of Saying “I’m Sorry!” | Didn’t Make the Sermon
Amen. It’s time for us to stand up and (re)claim what it means to be a baptist.
“By contrast, Facebook won’t treat a “dislike” as a vote to stop showing the post to other users. Rather, it provides a better option in cases where friends and family paste bad news, like a death in the family or a natural disaster. “What they really want is the ability to express empathy,” wrote Business Insider. “Not every moment is a good moment.”‘
Source: Facebook is working on a “dislike” button. But it won’t do what you think. – Vox
I really do have sympathy for the poor digital archaeologists that will try to piece together our culture(s) two thousand years from now…
“They equivocated death in their families or natural disasters that they caused by their uncontrolled use of fossil fuels with a “dislike” button on a social network?”
“Yep.”
“People were strange back then.”
“Yep.”
We’ve teamed up with Square to enable anyone in the US to make a donation directly to a US candidate through a Tweet, starting today. This is the fastest, easiest way to make an online donation, and the most effective way for campaigns to execute tailored digital fundraising, in real time, on the platform where Americans are already talking about the 2016 election and the issues they are passionate about.
Source: Political donations, now through a Tweet | Twitter Blogs
I wonder if this will get any coverage during tomorrow night’s Republican Presidential Debate?
Regardless, you can also send me money at my “cashtag” if you’d like to test the system: $samharrelson.
But seriously… why don’t more churches and non-profits use this??
The foundation of any brand is its logo. As such, with every redesign, a brand risks alienating its core following, who then flock to social media to broadcast their disapproval.
But why do logo redesigns upset us so much? It all boils down to identity. People with strong connections to a brand tend to react negatively to redesigns, ultimately affecting their attitudes towards the brand as a whole.
Source: 10 logo redesigns that missed the (brand)mark
I’m a fan of Google’s redesign as well as AirBNB (despite their blatant copying of a previous mark). Nonetheless, logos and identity matter just as much now as in the glory days of print. With the advent and ease of expressing personal opinions, perhaps even more so.
Regardless, if you’re a business owner or decider, it’s important to take into account other design variables and not just your own personal tastes. That’s what people like me do for a living.
“The eighteen minutes that Joe Biden spoke with Stephen Colbert produced the most public and painful demonstration of emotional honesty by any politician in months, if not years. Biden could never speak in a campaign quite the way that he spoke on Colbert. But a version of that would be powerful, and it was impossible not to see, in the Biden interview, a rebuttal to Trump’s moment in America—to the notion of self-promotion as success, of cruelty as candor, of empathy as weakness.”
Source: Biden, Alone in a Crowd – The New Yorker
“I fully think apologizing is a great thing,” the famously self-assured Trump replied before winning the studio audience’s applause by adding: “But you have to be WRONG. … I will absolutely apologize sometime in the hopefully distant future if I’m ever wrong.”
Source: Donald Trump gets rich with his humorous ‘Tonight Show’ turn
Run, Joe.
“They were all being ‘authentic’ by wearing the same thing and telling us that we were ‘revolutionary’ by consuming their products. It’s the same line used by the guy at the mall who sells Anarchy T-shirts for $20. Soon, these words lose their meaning: authentic people dressed alike, humans wearing machines to supposedly make them more human, freedom by buying more products. Do they believe this stuff themselves?”
Source: Apple’s Launch Event was Creepy as Hell—The Alpha Pages
Sounds like a few churches I know.
“And then when we tried to send it to the network,” continued Colbert, “so they could show it to you on the air, the computers kept crashing.”
Source: Stephen Colbert Reveals His Inaugural ‘Late Show’ Almost Didn’t Make It on the Air – Speakeasy – WSJ
Details (and computers) matter.
Hire good consultants 🙂
“Since President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty 50 years ago, the characteristics of the nation’s poor have changed: A larger share of poor Americans today are in their prime working years and fewer are elderly. In addition, those in poverty are disproportionately children and people of any age who are black, Hispanic or both.
But perhaps just as striking is that the geographic distribution of the poor has changed dramatically, too. A new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data finds that the South continues to be home to many of America’s poor, though to a lesser degree than a half-century ago. In 1960, half (49%) of impoverished Americans lived in the South. By 2010, that share had dropped to 41%.”
Source: How the geography of U.S. poverty has shifted since 1960 | Pew Research Center
“After 127 years under the ownership of the not-for-profit National Geographic Society, one of the world’s best-known media brands will be handed over to 21st Century Fox.”
Source: Rupert Murdoch Is Buying National Geographic – BuzzFeed News
This magazine was my childhood and expanded my worldview beyond Mullins, SC.
Ugh.
The author of Big Magic speaks with the writer, comedian, and prolific podcaster John Hodgman about the boredom of mastery and the thrill of self-reinvention. This is an installment of Magic Lessons by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Source: Ep. #10: John Hodgman on “The Question of What Come Next” — Magic Lessons — Overcast
Beautiful and short podcast on mastery, boredom, risk, and self-reinvention.
Those of us who have taken the leap know the exhilarating highs and the devastating lows involved in reinvention but also continuing to push yourself to be open to new paths to explore and thrive.
Make the leap.
Thanks for the share, Merianna.
