The Digital Sanctuary

TechCrunch reports today:
“Facebook blew past MySpace in visitors from across the world back in April, but the global gap continues to widen.  According to the latest figures from comScore, Facebook attracted 161.1 million unique visitors worldwide in September, compared 117.9 million for MySpace. For Facebook, that number was up from 4.7 percent from the 153.9 million [...]

During my breakout session at the Fellowship Technologies Dynamic Church Conference earlier this year, I outlined 10 New Media Values.  Sandwiched right in the middle of that list is personalization (aka customization).  From playlists to Tivo, from to blog themes to twitter displays, it seems the ability to customize our media experiences has won the [...]

Wish I had time to post all that is happening here at the Internet Ministry Conference.  I’m hoping to get some of my notes uploaded in the next few days.
I don’t know how you view conferences but sometimes I question the affordability of such events and wonder about long term gains for any one ministry.  [...]

The annual Internet Ministry Conference is well underway.  Calvin College is hosting this year’s event and our sessions are designed to give us a chance to absorb all there is to learn about ministry online.   The speakers are hand-picked experts in the field of internet ministry and literally I wish I could hear them all.
Last [...]

If your church is interested in the possibility of starting an Internet Campus for your congregation, Leadership Network is offering an hour long, informational webinar.
On Wednesday, November 12th from 10:00am to 11:00am CST you can get a closer look at two churches that are reaching thousands through their Internet Campuses.  The webinar will feature the [...]

Image: lifechurch.tv/myspace.com
As a service to the attenders of “Leveraging Technology to Support Community” I am linking to the Leadership Network’s Digital Blog (of which I am a contributor) which includes this list of early Internet Campus adopters.  These links offer a variety of options across multiple denominations for viewing the current exploration of virtual church [...]

Today I’m presenting “Leveraging Technology to Support Community” at the Group Life Conference.  I’ll upload it to SlideShare when I have time so you can access it.  My experience at Willow Creek has been amazing and being with scores of people who are desperate to learn how to serve others better has been invigorating.
Yesterday, in [...]

Early morning for me today headed over to the Group Life Conference at Willow Creek.  Going to moderate a “coffee discussion” (I think) as a pre-conference warm up.  Hope they’re well stocked because they have no idea how much coffee I can actually drink.
Then going to check out session topics for Mark Batterson & Heather [...]

What is Blog Action Day?
Today, October 15, 2008, has been designated as the day set aside for thousands of bloggers with millions of readers (last time I checked over 10 million feed readers) to unite for the purpose of discussing a single issue – poverty.
The hope is that global discussion across the blogosphere [...]

Just a reminder that Alltop for Pastors & Church Leadership sure makes finding the best current news easy.
Alltop, built by Nononina, (Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens & Guy Kawasaki), is proving more and more helpful for topical searches as more sites get added.  In the world of information overload, sites that sort and point are amazing [...]