The Digital Sanctuary

Remember way back when, when we all voted on panels for SxSW?
Videos of today’s SxSW gathering are already hitting YouTube.  Thanks Tony Steward for streaming live on your iPhone.
Technology For Results, Not Profits featured a couple of the LifeChurch.tv digerati, Terry Storch & Bobby Grunewald, engaging audience members on ways nonprofits can maintain and even [...]

Ed Young gets his rap on…..
By referencing a handful of  well known US pastors in this You Tube video rap experiment, Fellowship Church’s Senior Pastor, Ed Young takes ‘using video clips for ministry purposes’ in an unexpected direction.

Ed names Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Craig Groeschel, John Piper, Andy Stanley, Louie Giglio, TD Jakes, [...]

Worship Leader magazine just emailed me announcing that DJ Chuang will join the company as Network Developer.   Although I forgot to blog it, I got the privilege of writing for Worship Leader last summer  (Cynthia Ware – Worship Leader’s Toolbox) and have been so impressed with their persistent and ongoing focus on the use of [...]

Dallas Theological Seminary’s Center for Christian Leadership is hosting Shane Hipps, author of Flickering Pixels (my review), for a one day conference in Dallas called The Electronic Gospel: How Technology Shapes Our Faith on February 8th, 2010. Here’s the official description:
A conference about engaging technology with discernment, creativity, and purpose as you articulate the [...]

Last week Guy Kawasaki directed his readers to a piece called 5 Ways to Create a Future-minded Non-profit.  The timing was a great read for me as I get more deeply involved in working with the Center for Church Communication, a non-profit group that “helps the Church matter”.
For me, reading the article allows easy application [...]

This week I’m headed for Chicago and Cultivate 09.  Then on to Ben Arment’s Story Gathering. Cultivate will be streaming live and I’ll be doing the interviews with facilitators all day. Who do you wanna see?

Kem Meyer
Dawn Nicole Baldwin
Matt Knisely
Tim Schraeder
Maurilio Amorim
Blair Farley
Drew Goodmanson
Jon Acuff
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I get sent 4 or 5 books a week.  I have form letters both for authors & publishers saying “unfortunately, I cannot review your book because this space is reserved for discussions about the Church & media technologies”.   Sadly, there haven’t been many publications that fit well in this zone.   But recently, Zondervan sent me [...]

We are just two days away from The Nines, a 100% online, 100% free, conference for church leaders this Wednesday, September 9th, 2009.
Catalyst is partnering with Leadership Network to provide us with this first time ever free event.
Todd Rhoades of Leadership Network &  Monday Morning Insight answered some of our FAQ’s recently on The Show, and [...]

Many consider SXSW to be the best interactive media conference in the world. You learn from minds like Guy Kawasaki and the people at Facebook and Google. Unfortunately, SXSW has had little if any church oriented content in the past.
You can change that.
You can vote for SXSW Interactive to have several church oriented sessions in [...]

I’m just guessing you may not know who this is.   Let me introduce you to Peter Thourson, the guy who’s just basically responsible for streaming live church services on the iPhone.   You heard me right.    Peter works at New Hope in Hawaii along side the church’s Technology and Innovations Director, Michael Sharpe.   In [...]