• Michael Hyatt answers a great leadership question – How can you keep inspiration alive in your team or organization?  Clue – it doesn’t involve creating more rules or policies!
• Should Jesus be thought of as a product? The knee-jerk reaction might be worth a little more examination. CMS challenges with this question and why we need to think about it.
• Speaking of challenging conventional thinking, Tim Stevens poses a very thought provoking idea in his post on how churches have a statistical problem.  The coming decade is going to require some different thinking and for some churches to take some risks to try some new methods.
• Do you realize that your office chair may be killing you? This could explain a lot!
• Facebook has been under a great deal of heat and pressure about their privacy controls. This week they made another change to try to simplify it for everyone.  What do you think? Any better? [Here is the complete update from Facebook]
• You can now measure how much your Facebook Page is worth with the Social Page Evaluator.  Looks like a great idea, but lacking in some specifics.
• One of the great challenges with new technology and gadgets is what do we do with all of the old stuff?  Apple has an excellent marketing and environmental idea – ship them your old stuff for free and they will give you credit to the Apple Store or Gift Card.  Even if there is no monetary value to your old computer (mac or pc) or other devices (ipods, mobile phones, etc) they will still dispose of it in an environmentally responsible manner.
• iPhone users – you can now access your desktop Firefox bookmarks right from your phone.
• This post by Ron Edmondson about the differences between leading people vs controlling them wasn’t new, but I just saw it for the first time this past week.  If you are responsible for a group of people in any way, do yourself a favor and read this!

Have a great Memorial Day weekend!

• Ever wish you had a personal assistant to run down things you just don’t seem to have time for?  Check out Fancy Hands – your personal assistants in the cloud.  Send them an email with what you need and they’ll get it done!  I think this is going to catch on and could be very helpful for some individuals and start-ups.  Here is a review by a someone who tried it and loved it.
• E-books are getting more and more popular. Look for the battle to get even more intense as Google prepares to jump in with their own digital bookstore – Google Editions later this summer.
• Ever find a tweet you liked and wanted to quote it on your blog or website?  Now you can embed tweets directly and preserve any links in them.
• Did you know you can “tweet” via email?  Might be a good idea for those that are really wed to email and reluctant to try separate apps to engage in the Twitterverse.
• Facebook check-in appears to be in the works.   The location-based services seem to be of high interest as of late but really haven’t become mainstream. If Facebook jumps in that could change.
• Craigslist has been in the news recently and taking some heat for allowing very questionable content in their ‘adult services’ ads.  It caught the attention of the Christian community and surprise, surprise generated new petitions to boycott Craigslist.  However, not everyone agrees with this approach – here’s why.
• The battle between Google and Apple in the mobile phone market is getting serious as Android-based phones are now outselling the iPhone.
• It looks like the Apple / Google battlefield will also be extended to the tablet market as well as Google announces plans to partner with Verizon on a new device.  Verizon CEO even confirmed it.
• Looks like these rumored 4G iPhones keep showing up in strange places.
• Speaking of the iPhone… the rumors of being able to get one on Verizon are really heating up.  I think we will see this happen later this summer and AT&T will really suffer.
• Folks who go on mission and volunteer trips could benefit from this cool idea – the Volunteer Card.
• Gmail users can now drag and drop images directly into the body of the message.
• Looks like you’ll be able to use your Android 2.2 phone to connect your laptop to the internet.
• So many people are upset about the recent changes in Facebook’s privacy settings – there is a new movement to create a new alternative - and it’s not MySpace.  They have already raised $115K!
• Apple announced las month that it is shutting down the popular Lala.com streaming service at the end of May.  There are strong rumors that Apple is getting ready to announce a cloud-based iTunes in early June.