Killing Independent George: Some Thoughts on Grace and (Social) Media

by David Zahl on Mar 12, 2013 • 3:30 pm 4 Comments

The good folks at Liberate were kind enough to post my talk from last month’s conference this morning and what better way to illustrate the point(s) about compulsive self-presentation than to re-post it here:

4 comments

John Zahl says:

Mar 14, 2013

Nice job, Dave! Feels a little like the foreshadowing of a Mockingbird mega-church. 😉

Greg Taylor says:

Sep 5, 2013

This is really good, but I could only listen about 29:20 in before I had to go post some links to my twitter, facebook, and blog. I think you are on to some important ideas. What if you got interviewed by Leadership Journal (Chicago) or Publishers Weekly? What would you say that’s shorter? How can you take an hour talk about social media and make it more digestive in the few minutes that national media outlets would give you? Do you have a version like that?

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