{"id":98,"date":"2005-05-25T22:46:18","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T04:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=98"},"modified":"2005-05-25T22:46:18","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T04:46:18","slug":"reverse-engineering-passion-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/reverse-engineering-passion-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverse-engineering passion: part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every business, church or organization needs to have passion to make it work. Passion is the fire that feeds people and gives them energy to keep going. Here&#8217;s a great look at what passion should look like: <a href=\"http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/creating_passionate_users\/2005\/05\/reverseengineer.html\">Reverse-engineering passion: part 1<\/a>.<br \/>\nKathy Sierra says there are seven ways to realize passion. And rather than focusing on one or two of them, we should always do things that help our users:<br \/>\n<strong>Evangelize<br \/>\nConnect<br \/>\nLearn<br \/>\nImprove<br \/>\nShow Off<br \/>\nSpend Time<br \/>\nSpend Money <\/strong><br \/>\nOften we want to do the later, but not the rest.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy to throw money at a project or ministry or organization, but without the rest, there is no passion.<br \/>\nWhen people leave our meetings or fellowships or use our products,<br \/>\nDo they want to tell everyone else about it?<br \/>\nDo they want to find ways to connect with others who have used the product or tried the church?<br \/>\nDo they go to a website or blog to learn more about us?<br \/>\nDo they try to feel like they&#8217;ve improved or know how they can be a better Christian or believer when they leave?<br \/>\nAre they proud to be a member or a part of the group?<br \/>\nDo they want to keep coming back and spending time using the product or spending time with the group?<br \/>\nAnd a big one for the church &#8211;<br \/>\nDo they put their money where their faith is? Or do they believe in the ministry strongly enough to open up their wallets?<br \/>\nPassionate people create more passionate people. Passion breads passion. And that can do nothing but strengthen a cause, a group or a belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every business, church or organization needs to have passion to make it work. Passion is the fire that feeds people and gives them energy to keep going. Here&#8217;s a great look at what passion should look like: Reverse-engineering passion: part 1. Kathy Sierra says there are seven ways to realize passion. And rather than focusing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/reverse-engineering-passion-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reverse-engineering passion: part 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}