The Digital Sanctuary

Rhett Smith, has been the college director for the last many years at Bel Air Presbyterian Church.  Over the course of his tenure he has been dreaming and thinking a lot about the desire for, and need for connecting those involved in college ministry (i.e. pastors, directors, volunteers, etc.).  Rhett says that although there are [...]

One of the reasons I agreed to speak in Dallas at the Dynamic Church Conference was so I could catch up with my friends who live there.  I love Dallas and so I planned to get a lot out of my trip.  I ran out of time to see everyone I had hoped to see [...]

Finally have time to blog my great experience from the Dynamic Church Conference in Dallas recently.  I loved meeting all the Fellowship Technologies staff and was impressed by their mission and strategy to serve churches.  A couple of highlights include hearing the breakout sessions by Terry Storch, Digerati Pastor at LifeChurch.tv and Joe Suh, founder [...]

Just when we were getting over the Microsoft Surface, they throw down a floor?
 
 

See also my post at Digital entitled Visually Immersive Art in Worship Services

Twitter fails, StumbleUpon succeeds, but just for one day.  It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.  Online, they really do go together.  The more we use digital technologies, the more we expose ourselves to the potential for failures.  It's a topic that keeps coming up amongst the bloggers at Digital.  [...]

The Whiteboard Sessions – quite affordable. 
But FREE is good too:  Conference Channel @ WiBo. 

Great news if you're looking for the place where media & the Church converge.  COLLIDE Magazine has a brand spankin' new, redesigned website.  It's less than 48 hours old.  
And how can I resist mentioning COLLIDE when several Digital contributors are featured in the magazine's new May/June issue.  Odd happenstance?  I [...]

In case you missed this recent Digital post, How to Twitter (see Twitter in Plain English), you might consider going back and taking a second look.  Upon introduction, Twitter can seem both frivolous & narcissistic.  But as fan created, 3rd party apps roll out we will likely see it's growing value. 
For example, this weekend [...]

First Monday, an online, peer-reviewed journal, published the article – The Augmented Social Network: building identity and trust into the next-generation Internet by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster.
The authors describe the future of the internet as an evolution from online experimentation and fads to stabilizing trends creating reliability, [...]

Although very few churches can afford to have a digerati team support their internet presence, most all can put up and maintain a web site online.  With some direction, every church can develop an internet strategy for beginning web-based ministry.  Here's a book for newbies.
Web-Empower Your Church: Unleashing the Power of the Internet for [...]