Daniel Johnson, Jr.

Image by Sean MacEntee via Flickr

I’m gonna let you in on a secret.

Each morning for as long as I can remember, the first thing I’ve posted onto Twitter, Facebook, and now, Google Plus, is “Good morning from beautiful Cincinnati!” followed by something to get me going for the day.

Maybe you’ve never noticed that. Maybe you have. I archive my Twitter updates to this blog each week, and I’ve often been able to mark time in them by when I say “Good morning.”

There’s a reason why I do this.

Forest Fair/Cincinnati Mills/Cincinnati Mall via labelscar.com

This afternoon my family and I went to the Danbarry Dollar Saver Cinema at Cincinnati Mall to see the movie Thor.  We thoroughly enjoyed the movie, but our enthusiasm was a bit tempered as we walked through the mall to get to the cinema.

It felt like a ghost town. (more…)

Why create something unless it’s to share with others?

I’m fascinated by how we can use technology to help tell a compelling story.

Since 2005 our church has been recording sermons and messages and posting them to the website. When the audio consists of just one speaker, producing it for the web is a somewhat straightforward process.  I emphasize somewhat because it’s still a little bit involved. Words like “straightforward” and “easy” are all relative, based on the level of experience you have in capturing the audio and editing it to produce a file that you can later upload and share with others.

Background – equipment setup

I only got involved in the audio-visual ministry in mid-2006. (more…)

I don’t like the prick of needles, and I certainly don’t like looking at them. I make sure to look away.

So I can only imagine what it must be like to go to the doctor every month and get pricked to offer some of your blood to be analyzed for anything bad in it. Or to have to receive blood transfusions every month. I can’t imagine what this is like because, thankfully, I’ve never had leukemia. (more…)

Last week I gave a talk at the Job Search Learning Lab (JSLL) in Anderson Township here in Cincinnati, Ohio. They had requested that I speak about blogging, specifically in getting started with a WordPress.com blog. I recently checked and realized that I have created over 15 blogs since I first started back in 2002. (more…)