The other day I had a brief twitter conversation with @johndyer (whom all my readers should follow) about technology in the Church. John often hears complaints that churches are “five years behind the rest of the world” technology-wise and, being a thoughtful technologist remind the complainers, “Look, its 2011 and George Lucas has JUST gotten…
Tag: Communication
The freedom of immediacy
“I’ll e-mail it to you when I get home.” Thus has much important data been lost in congregations all over the world. Most congregations, for better or for worse, are volunteer organizations. This means that, for better or worse, most of the people doing the work of the congregation have a life away from it….
Oh Blogsy!
A couple of days ago I wrote that I hadn’t found a decent blogging tool to us on my iPad. That was then, now I’ve found Blogsy and I can say that blogging on the iPad is looking up! It’s not yet perfect, but it’s pretty darn close! Here’s my thoughts. The Good Blogsy has…
Oh Tweet!
On Tuesday I ranted a bit at our regional staff meeting for ABCNJ. We had a missionary team in to talk about some of the challenges that are facing ABCUSA missionaries becuase they way the denomination is funding them has completely changed. This change entails that the missionaries raise a certain amount of their own…
Vintage E-Publishing
I saw this video on TechCrunch, it’s probably the first new report every of reading the Newspaper over the Internet. If this doesn’t convince you that the way we communicate has fundamentally changed I honestly don’t know what will.
Sometimes you just want to crawl into a corner and weep..
No, I’m not going to have a long pity party. I’m just wondering if human beings are actually capable of communicating without feeling the need to bludgeon one another. This past week I got an IM from my friend Jim. It was one word, “NOVA.” Apparently, PBS was running a Nova special on “Buried Secrets…
