Podcast Episode No 3 – Interview Kem Meyer (Less Chaos. Less Noise. Book Giveaway)

Steve Fogg 3rd Aug 2016 Podcast

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I loved catching up again with Church Communications Jedi Master – Kem Meyer. I’ve known Kem for over 10 years. She is a wise leader who has a bucket load of experience in the trenches of church communications.

Show notes

I actually had a whole series of questions for Kem in this podcast, we really only got past the first one so I’ll definitely need to get Kem back to share more of her insight at a future date.

Kem’s free ebook – Smart Communications Essential List: 25 Ways to Start Free & Start Now

Kem’s blog

Buy Kem’s book here

As I said in the podcast, I’m giving away two copies of ‘Less Chaos. Less Noise.’ from my own wallet. This isn’t some marketing tactic from the publishers. I just love getting really useful books like Kem’s into the right people’s hands. I haven’t included any affiliate links to buy the book either 😉

How to be in the running to receive one of the books

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Leave a comment below and tell me why you want this book. It needs to be good!

The two winners will be announced on Monday 8th August (AEST time). I will update the post here to share their names.

***** Winners randomly chosen by blind pick are Robert and Sean O’Driscoll, congrats fellas I’ll email you *****

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Robert - August 3rd, 2016 at 10:47 pm
I DON’T want this book and let me explain why! Now that I have your attention, The reason I DO want this book is to help serve my church to the best ability that I can. I truly believe knowledge is power, and one place knowledge comes from is books.

If I win one of the copies of “Less Chaos. Less Noise.,” I promise to use that power/knowledge for GOOD, only. Not solely will I read it, but I will also share it with others at my church too so others can gain this power.

To be honest, if I don’t win, I still plan on buying this book so one way or another I will be reading her new book soon. 🙂
Steve Fogg - August 4th, 2016 at 9:40 am
Haha Robert nice one.
Jeff Shinn - August 3rd, 2016 at 10:50 pm
Good day Steve:

I’d love to win one of Kem’s books so that I can share this amazing tool with my church’s marketing and communications department MARCOM. Working in the more technical, business-oriented side of a church you learn quickly that communication is key. Working for a church period you learn it is human nature to assume a good bit so, you guessed it, communication is key!

I believe at Free Chapel we have communication within departments and ministries down quite well. It’s the communication with other departments and ministries as well as communication to the members and new members that we need the most growth.

Thanks as always for the wealth of information you share with us!

Jeff Shinn
Software Engineer
Free Chapel
Steve Fogg - August 4th, 2016 at 9:39 am
Great to hear from you Jeff! Bless you for all you do at Free Chapel
Faye Spencer - August 3rd, 2016 at 11:26 pm
I hope this book will help our church communicate God’s love better. Loved the tips from just this short podcast – thanks 🙂

P.S. this form layout did not work well in Chrome – I had to check the html code to see where to put the email address!
Steve Fogg - August 4th, 2016 at 9:39 am
Thanks for letting me know Faye. Can you email me a screenshot pls so I can get my developer to have a look at it? steve.fogg@crossway.org.au
Sean O'Driscoll - August 4th, 2016 at 12:59 am
Why do I want to win this book? Two words – TIME TRAVEL!

At the end of you post, you stated, “The two winners will be announced on Monday 8th July (AEST time).” It seems highly unlikely that you will wait until Monday, July 8, 2019 (the next year in which July 8 falls on a Monday) to announce the winners, so I think can safely assume that you plan on using time travel to go back to 2013 to deliver the book.

Armed with the insights and information contained within it’s pages, I plan on becoming a church communications guru. I will start a blog, maybe a podcast. I’ll write books, speak at conferences, and share my “visionary” ideas with the world ushering in new era of evangelization and a spreading of the gospel message like never before!

Or – more likely – it will go on the increasingly large pile of books in my library that I have yet to read. I will slowly work through that literary stockpile, as time moves ever forward eventually reaching today’s date. I will see this post, listen to the podcast, and pick up Kem’s book from the pile to begin reading.

And as I read, I will keep thinking to myself, “I wish I had more time…”
Steve Fogg - August 4th, 2016 at 5:24 am
Lol Sean, I fixed the date so time travel isn’t’the necessary
Will M. - August 4th, 2016 at 2:23 am
I broke the spine on Less Clutter. Less Noise. Though we are a long way from perfectly concise, we are now using portions of the book to orient new hires on our church staff. It changed the way we look at and utilize our channels of communication and played a big role in revamping our website and creating a new publication. I’m so excited that I now have the opportunity to pick up a few more scraps from the table of Kem’s Communications Feast. Thank you Steve for having her on – I look forward to you addressing the rest of the Post-it’s in a future podcast.
Steve Fogg - August 4th, 2016 at 9:37 am
It was a great conversation Will. I just let Kem run with it. Here’s to many more post-it note episodes in the future eh?
Brendan Wood - August 4th, 2016 at 10:56 am
I need this book because it’s free and I love free stuff 🙂
Seriously though, having listened to the podcast I reckon this will help us fashion our communications here at our Church so it is less reactionary, but more strategic and more engaging than it currently is. Kem sounds like she has a lot of experience in Church contexts but she also shoots straight, which is refreshing. Looking forward to more if you can wrangle it.
Steve Fogg - August 4th, 2016 at 11:13 am
Haha Brendan 🙂 Great to hear from you. Kem has bucket loads of experience and I highly recommend the book. 🙂
James Agnew - August 4th, 2016 at 11:24 am
Great podcast Steve! I learnt so much from just 30 minutes. The most helpful thing was hearing how beneficial it would be to make space in my schedule for interactions and relationship-building with people.

I would love to read Kem’s book and find out what other brilliant wisdom she has to share!
Steve Fogg - August 4th, 2016 at 11:33 am
Thanks James. Kem is amazing. The relational side to communications is a much underappreciated idea 🙂
Diane Beason - August 4th, 2016 at 2:45 pm
Hey, Steve – I am a huge fan of Kem Meyer. I read her first book when it came out and underlined, circled, and flagged many pages. I don’t work in church communications (although I hope to someday…) but I use many of her concepts and ideas in my communications job at a local credit union. One day I will buy her new book and will write all over it, put stickies on pages, and use it well. 🙂

By the way – and I’m sincere here – I enjoy reading what you write, too! Good stuff!
Steve Fogg - August 4th, 2016 at 2:50 pm
Flattery will totally get you everywhere Diane 😉 I’m glad that you can put her ideas to use where you work. That is SO cool!