Cape Town Anniversary

The Lausanne Movement blog has a series of post from two weeks ago in recognition of the one-year anniversary of the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization last October.

What Was the Most Important Thing About Cape Town 2010?

Here’s a key reflection from one of the posts on the most important outcome from the Congress last fall:

In an interview at the close of the Congress, Doug Birdsall, Executive Chair of The Lausanne Movement, said he believes the personal connections made by leaders were among the most important accomplishments of the gathering.  Additionally he said leaders were able to sense the magnitude of what God is doing around the world and that together the Church regained its footing and regained its nerve for world evangelization.

I agree 100%. Making connections and seeing what God is doing are the central purposes of any conference — most of all a convention such as Cape Town 2010 that brought together delegates from almost every nation in the world. And from the results of the past year, it looks like these outcomes have born much fruit — and will continue to bear fruit for a long time to come.

Here’s a closing video that looks back on the congress: Cape Town 2010: Looking back at the Congress

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The New Rules of the Internet

The “new rules” have been around for a while now, but this is still a great summary by Jeff Jarvis in What Would Google Do?:

  1. Customers are now in charge.
  2. People can find each other anywhere and coalesce around you or against you.
  3. The mass market is [sort of] dead, replaced by the mass of niches.
  4. Since markets are conversations, the key skill in any organization is no longer marketing but conversing.
  5. We have shifted from an economy based on scarcity to one based on abundance.
  6. Enabling customers to collaborate with you (creating, distributing, marketing, supporting products) is what creates a premium in today’s market.
  7. The most successful enterprises today are networks and the platforms on which those networks are built.
  8. The key to success is not owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property, but openness.
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