June is here!

June Hunt from Hope for the Heart has been here doing her broadcast daily as well as participating in a bunch of panel discussions and events. She has such a sweet personality. The site Silas Partners assisted her ministry on has launched and the staff is happy! We are happy! We love the new site too! You should also check out a new project she’s working on - iQuestions - it’s a place for people to go who are struggling with life’s issues and allows them to hear biblical direction and encouragement in many areas of life.

Silas+Trinet

Many of you have already heard Silas Partners and Trinet Internet Solutions have joined together to form one combined company. Many people may be asking what does this mean for me?

If you are a client than this means we will be able to serve you even better than before. Silas Partners and Trinet possess highly talented and committed teams, our respective skills and abilities are complementary in many ways. The coming together of Silas Partners and Trinet allows us to offer our clients greater depth of expertise across a broader range of services.
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Convio and GetActive Followup

I think this is a big enough for a two day story. There are tons of stories all across the map. However I have a different take on the “why?”
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Convio buys Get Active

Well this is big, you can read the official word from Convio on their site. It seems that Convio gets GetActive’s advocacy platform, content management system and GetActive’s DC based services operation.

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Viral Pigment Power Opportunity

People want the pigment power. It is a primal instinct exposed through the child development years, this need to choose the crayon of one’s choice to color. I cannot remember hearing an adult chastise me for coloring a tree purple with crayons but I can trace my early works of art from purple trees to green trees. It happened to us all, this sad day when authority took away our color freedom. THE TREE MUST BE GREEN they scolded! Forget the fact that trees are orange or yellow in the autumn. Forget that your classmate Lulu ate your green crayon. Forget it all. You must adhere to society’s coloring guidelines - adhere they tell you! Make sure your pillow sheets match the comforter they tell you. Those pants don’t match those shoes they tell you.

Understanding the drain of giving up one’s power to color the world the way they want, Silas Partners developed an Read more >>

News Roundup

A couple of news items of note for you all today.

Convio Launches New Features Convio is moving into the Web 2.0 space with a few new offerings. I first read this on nonprofit matrix another blog that I am subscribed to.

Akamai Buys Nine Systems via Giga Om. Many clients are using one of these services for streaming. I think this is good news all around. Nine Systems interface is better and Akamai’s network is the best distributed network out there right now. Giga Om had a rumor about this last week, but now it is confirmed.

World’s Largest Pillow Fight

I previously wrote about a couple of our members attending the Catalyst Conference. Supposedly, Michael and Jeff helped break the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Pillow Fight.

Michael e-mailed the team the link for the clip below with the subject “Pillows”. It peaked my interest. Definitely unconventional…but that is what it often takes to grab people’s attention on the web today.

Catalyst Podcast and Catalyst Conference

Mark Batterson is the pastor of National Community Church (disclaimer: NCC was a past client of Silas Partners). I read his blog - Evotional.com - often because he really sees the power of the web as a communication tool to his congregation and beyond.

Pastor Mark just wrote about the launch of a new podcast by Catalyst - the same folks who do the Catalyst Conference - called CatalystSpace . You need to register to get access but with other podcasts including interviews with Andy Stanley and Louie Giglio, you’ll definitely want to sign-up.

On a side note, a couple of Silas Partner folks will be down at the Catalyst Conference, so let us know if you want to connect with us.