Are we being disruptive?

I sure hope so. Back in October Mike Rundle talked about the power of disruption in his article Show Me Disruptive Startups. Am I just trying to rock the boat and disrupt everyone’s day? Not exactly.

Being a disruptive startup doesn’t mean that we are trying to mess up anyone’s day. Instead, it means that we are trying to change the way people do things. The way Google changed the web. As Mike says, disruptive startups are companies who actually break the mold and innovate rather than emulate, mashup, and wait for the quick flip.

Mike’s article in BusinessLogs earned us a mention and a link in Richard MacManus’ column on ZDnet. MacManus puts disruptive startups into two categories:

1) a disruptive technology that changes the Web – like Google did.

2) non-geek services built using Web 2.0 technologies. These will be disruptive because we don’t have many of them right now and Web 2.0 won’t hit the mainstream until we do. CrossConnector and Sproutit.com are two examples.

CrossConnector is nothing if not disruptive and innovative. We’re taking a process that has been around in various forms for a very long time (Christian ministry) and we’re changing it. Not necessarily to change the way people do missionary work, but the way people think about missions, and the way they communicate. The whole idea behind CrossConnector is that since we’re working toward a common goal, we ought to be able to share information and coordinate our activities.

Imagine what would happen if it were not just two or three working together, or even a few hundred missionaries from a church or mission agency, but thousands of people, out on a mission, sharing information, coordinating, and cooperating. Imagine if everyone doing missions had the ability to talk to everyone else doing missions. What kind of information would they share? How big would that community be?

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