Wednesday Morning Run-Down

• Photos of the "white party" at Alt Summit
• Thea Nelson did a fun photo recap of Dream Year weekend in Charlotte this past week. What an amazing experience. Speaking of, we're on the hunt for our next city to host Dream Year Weekend this spring or summer
• Excited I get to attend the C2MTL event in May
• Leftover Christmas trees are getting resused as a forest for the Montreal biodome (via @storychicago)
• Mark Clement launched videoannouncements.tv, which creates custom HD video announcements for churches
• Why self-published authors aren't taken seriously (but why the could be) (via Kevin Kaiser). Wouldn't it be fun to own an Espresso Book Maker, by the way?
• "Have friendships that complete you, not compete against you." ~TD Jakes at the Elephant Room
• We talk about this in Dream Year all the time: entrepreneurship is no more risky than trusting your boss or the economy for job security
• It's all I can do not to show you the branding for STORY 2012. I have to keep a supply of Depends on hand to contain my excitement. Put Sept 20-21 on your calendar
• 52% of in-store shoppers use a mobile device to check price and availability on-line before they buy, according to Pew Research. At STORY, we're radically shifting our Resource strategy because of this phenomenon.
• I'm a huge fan of NFL Films's artistry, so in light of the Superbowl, a little Tom Brady vignette (via @tentblogger)
• This girl has her entrepreneurial act together, a portfolio of revenue, physical and digital offerings, a dream team... and a Typepad blog, I'd like to point out =)
• If I were to evaluate Christianity solely by the response to inviting TD Jakes at the Elephant Room, I'd be a Hare Krishna by now. Those of you who have a strong gift of teaching and are reformed, stir up some of some of those other spiritual gifts that are lying dormant inside you
• My former pastor Tony McCollum launched PastorMojo
• I don't ask for much in life, just a warehouse home
• A professional wrestler was on the verge of obsolesence, so he turned to social media and is blowing up
• "Life [I'd argue business] is pretty simple. You try some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is doing something else." ~on Stephen Brewster's Instagram
• I've been referring to the visual style of Four Stones as Saving Private Ryan rather than 300, and wouldn't you know that's exactly how that's how they're describing Spielberg's new Moses film?
• One of Sundance's most controversial films touched on how gullible as people we are
• The camera placement for the Superbowl this Sunday (via @stefantribble)

Comments

[Kyle Scheele]

Springfield, Missouri would love to host a DreamYear weekend. I can connect you with a great venue or two and I know there are lots of Midwesterners who would love to attend...

[Kyle Scheele]

It should also be noted that Elsie Larson (the girl whose typepad blog you linked to) lives in Springfield and has a store here.

[Ben Arment]

Kyle would love to get on the phone with you soon to talk about it....

[Derekmswanson]

Ben, you're always welcome in Minneapolis. Would love to have Dream Year here.

[Ben Arment]

Derek if we could find a couple more leaders like you to support it, would love that. any thoughts?

[Felicity]

I'd volunteer at the Springfield DY!

Also, love the warehouse home!

Also, where are we with FOUR STONES?

[Rodneyeason]

My wife and I rented a converted warehouse in Raleigh for a year (long story... fell in our laps). Loved it. Walked everywhere. We would invite 5 friends over and 20 would show up for a party.

[Ben Arment]

felicity i can always count on you! more news on four stones very very soon... that was my 'lazarus moment' last week.

[Derekmswanson]

Yeah actually there are 4 specific names that come to mind. Shoot me an e-mail if you want to pursue it. derek.swanson@gmail.com