Author: Jonathan Blundell

I'm a husband, father of three, blogger, podcaster, author and media geek who is hoping to live a simple life and follow The Way.

Construction in Ellis/Dallas County

For those of you in the Ellis County/southern Dallas County, this information my prove useful:

In the next few weeks, we will begin making arrangements to permanently convert the frontage roads to one-way operation between Parkerville Road and US 77. This is an important part of the project as it will improve the safety along the frontage roads at the ramp junctures. It is also appropriate to make this conversion now as we begin opening new ramps in their ultimate configurations. The west frontage road and the east frontage road will be switched to one-way traffic operation at the same time to minimize confusion and to help drivers get acclimated to the new traffic pattern. I will provide additional information when the exact date is selected. In the mean time, please help me in spreading the word about this upcoming traffic change.

Sincerely,
Bill Pierce, P.E.
Ellis County Area Engineer
Texas Department of Transportation
972-938-1570

You don’t need it –>

While I won’t condone vandalism, I love the idea behind these stickers:

They’re meant as anti-advertising “protests.” And can be placed on advertising like this:

If only people would stick these reminders on my local Chick-Fil-A, What-A-Burger, Joey’s Burritos, iTunes and other stores I might frequent…

Engaging your audience

As part of our community 2.0 ministry at encounter, we recently purchased copies of Andy Stanley’s book, “Communicating for a Change.” Loved the book. It really challenged me and the ways I’ve always been taught to communicate with folks (hense my Mass Communications major).

Rather then outlining a message or lesson with 3 points, each having 3 or 4 sub-points, Stanley suggests outlining your message with only one central point. And building the message around Me-We-God-You-We. I’ll let you start reading it to find out more ;-). Like I said – it’s challenged me for sure.

I’ve tried to share some of the e-mails I send to our leaders from time to time (where appropriate) and thought this was one of those times…
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