The Digital Sanctuary

Special thanks to Tim Schraeder for his impressions / interpretations of some of the concepts / dialog / challenges our session raised at Story 09.  And thank you to the participants who came to our breakout.  Were you there?  You’ll see some of your comments and input here in Tim’s notes.
Social Media Pulse What [...]

Yes, I know it’s the middle of “iPhone Church Service week” but I’ll be responding to fb messages, dm’s & gmails all week if I don’t put up the slides from the Echo Conference breakout that I got to do with Dawn Nicole Baldwin last Thursday in Dallas.
Working with Dawn is always refreshing and [...]

Brilliant overview of the future evolution of the Social Web by Forrester Reseacher, Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) plus John McCrea & Joseph Smarr.
Every church leader can easily understand the future of social communities and their potential value by investing in this in depth analysis of where we are in the evolution of the Social Web.  Understanding [...]

I’m intrigued by the data and information from Forrester Research so I love reading the blog of Jeremiah Owyang.  So many of the concepts explored in the world of social media seem to me, (am I the only one?)  to be directly tied to all the changes in business models, political strategies, economic developments (vis-a-vis [...]

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 [...]

There’s so much exciting news in the world of the socially networked church right now, it’s hard to keep it all straight.  One of the most important pieces of information I got this week is the one above.
Check out the wording “not a ROOV Facebook app”.  Sounds more significant than just another app, huh?  Maybe [...]

Faith communities are responding to the social media revolution.  Churches are leveraging online technology and attracting the attention of even the most seasoned participatory media veterans and experts. (i.e. Chris Brogan on Social Media Pastor)
As Christian leaders grow increasingly well-educated about opportunities for both intra-congregational communications and missional/outreach connections, certain options stand out.  Unifyer is [...]

The recent Southern California minor earthquake caused a flurry of tweets in the twitterverse.  This is what it looks like on a Twitter-graph.

Twitter, the micro-blogging or social messaging service (SMS) has been embraced by communication's early adopters but hasn't spread in terms of mainstream acceptability yet.  In fact, according to Wikipedia, Twitter has only 2,200,000 [...]

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 [...]

I finally finished the outline for my breakout session at the Dynamic Church Conference in Dallas which is now just a little over 3 weeks away.  In another week, I'll give it some final updating.  My session is Ten New Media Values Impacting Ministry. 
Because digital media operate differently than traditional media, they change what [...]