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Idea Camping Live: Final Main Session

March 3, 2009 //

Just to continue my twitter-ified summaries of my “live” blogging from The Idea Camp, here are some glimpses of the final main session…

David Ruis

Worship session with David Ruis – solo, but brought along tech team of synth, drum machine, trusty Macbook (and I’m guessing sequencers, and other music-y stuff like that). David did an incredible job of bringing together worship, mystery, tech, and a heart for justice to the evening session.

Eugene Cho

Charles Lee interviewed Eugene Cho. It was really interesting that, although these two influential leaders had been blog friends for awhile now, this weekend was their first face-to-face interaction!

Why do you blog? Many reasons… pains him to see friends in print business, but shift in how we obtain info, how we learn things, blogging is part of that change
Why did you start your anti-poverty organization?
- Born out of family life, developing compassion
- His kids, watching poverty on TV, asked him, “Is this real?” Yes. “What are you doing about it?”
One Day’s Wages
- Their family gave up one year’s wages — selling off other assets to give $100,000; encouraging people to give up one day’s wages in fight against global poverty
- We’re not asking people to do anything we’re not willing to do
- Over 300,000 in Facebook group — everyone might not give up one day’s wages, but there might be 500,000 hits on their website
- Exciting because shows how world is connected
- Your ideas and your perseverance will be tested

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Categories asian american, church, communication, community, hope, innovation, leadership

Idea Camping Live: Saturday Morning

February 28, 2009 //

Glad to be here at The Idea Camp again this morning…

We shared a great moment while we were singing together; Charles Lee built off a recent blog post and asked us not to get derailed — all of the great innovation, ideating and collaboration that come out of this conference must be laid down at Jesus’ feet. We sang the bridge to the well-known song Hosanna a few times to express this surrender to God:

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Idea Camping Live (Almost!): Session 2

February 28, 2009 //

Much to the credit of The Idea Camp, last night’s main session was filled with so many great ideas that it was hard for slow-blogging me to keep up… So, this is my almost-live blog from the session! The live Twitter feed is definitely worth following — instant feedback on what’s resonating with people, shared insights and interesting responses.

A huge part of my experience so far has been listening to people’s stories. There really is a collective wisdom happening here, and it was great to share a nice dinner at In-N-Out with friends, among them LT, Eugene Cho, Paul from Vox, and Todd Hiestand. Got to hear a little more about the International Justice Mission story from Daniel Li. The need for justice for the oppressed in the world is overwhelming; may God continue to guide the faithful work of IJM to serve those in greatest need for justice.

First, we heard from the people behind Deidox — “short films telling true stories of an active God.” The Dei refers to God, the dox to documentaries. Interesting approach, especially the Radiohead-esque pay what you want strategy.

Next, Dave Gibbons spent some time talking about innovation, and brought John Park (from Google) and Maxim Carp to the stage to interview. Dave talked about the disequilibrium, and its associated fear and stress, cause a person to go laser in focusing on a perceived threat. It helps a person deal with the immediate problem, but limits one’s macro-perspective.

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Categories communication, community, design, faith

Idea Camping Live: Join Us!

February 27, 2009 //

If you’re not able to join us face-to-face, you can view the live stream for The Idea Camp here.

There is also a great live Twitter feed at The Idea Camp mobile site here (the mobile site also has a printable schedule — going green by putting the schedule online!). Already great tweets and insights going out…

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Categories communication, community, innovation

Idea Camping Live: Session 1

February 27, 2009 //

Here at NewSong in Irvine – just had a great lunch with Laurence Tom, Dawn Carter, Dave Ingland and Idea Camp web guru Daniel Li and starting the first main session of The Idea Camp!

The ethos of the Idea Camp is collaboration, friendship and innovation. We just watched a short film, Benched, about ways we can practically benefit and bless our neighborhoods. Charles Lee is interviewing Jeff Shinabarger about dreaming for our communities and then acting on those dreams. For example, Gift Card Giver took about two years to decide if it was going to be worth pursuing (which, it turns out, it was!).

Questions are coming in already via text — “Did you get any pushback from the city when planning for the benched project?” Response, “Sometimes you ask for permission, sometimes for forgiveness!” But since they’ve launched out, there haven’t been any problems.

More to come!

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