The Digital Sanctuary

Using online technologies for the purpose of participatory church is now commonplace.  Available Web 2.0 tools come in all complexities and varieties and although some may be useless to you (see Seth Godin's stripe generator post), many are not complicated or expensive and so are worth consideration. 
The Internet is now being seen as more of [...]

New Media technologies continue to offer uncharted opportunities for transmitting messages both to groups and to individuals.  Social media, empowered in many instances by their viral nature, are changing the definitions of traditionally accepted mass media forms. 
Interactive media transform our past impressions about the fundamental nature of a "mass" communication.  The goals of, for [...]

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Web 2.0 and business collide in a great CNN Money Magazine overview of 25 of the newest online technologies ranging from mobile services to social media.

                
 
 
           
  
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If you feel you're not as innovative as those DIY media geeks, a perfectly acceptable option is to utilize the ministry resources others have already designed for you.  There are plenty of media-driven elements that might enrich your ministry & the first step is simply [...]

Two weeks ago I blogged about a short video clip that made me think about the scope and the reach of our mass media.  The effects current media transformations may have on the practices of our spirituality and our previously boundaried definitions of what connotes "church" is the continuing focus of this blog. 
Today, I'm [...]

Appropriately, since wikis can be quickly added to by anyone with access to them…I'll amend my last post with these links:  first, the Wikinomics book homepage and secondly, author Anthony D. Williams links my post on the Wikinomics blog & I comment.  Here's the actual permalink to view all. 

In case you're wondering what the Church of the future looks like, I think its safe to say that the New Media will have far-reaching effects that we have yet to predict. Thus, the innovative U.S. churches of today, lead currently but they may or may not be on target when it comes to serving [...]

I was traveling last week and left you the Shift Happens clip to ponder.  While I was away I accessed my blog from an island, both via wifi and from a hard-wired library terminal.  As I was sitting at the library kiosk I was reminded of my graduate work because I interviewed 100's of library [...]

Since I will be traveling this week, I've decided to post the Shift Happens video clip about globalization in the information age for you to contemplate in my absence. The clip was created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod, courtesy of YouTube.  
It's provocative for three reasons.  First, it's filled with facts that [...]

 Watermark Church, a Dallas, Texas congregation, currently building a permanent facility, is pushing the front edges of the traditional, static website by employing some Web 2.0 social technologies in the development of their site.  They intend to use social networking, user commenting, create online music playlists, and invite members to participate in digitally streaming their [...]