Tag Archives: technology
Consider Using Technology for Your Prayer Chain
Prayer Chains have been around for a long time and have taken on many forms. In the past, they usually consisted of pure phone calling with the “chain” starting off with one main contact person. That person would then call a few key contacts who then had a list of a few people to call. [...]
How to Turn Your Voice Mail Into Text
Converting your regular voice mail messages into text messages is extremely useful. I personally haven’t called my voice mail box in years thanks to this handy innovation. {Not true, thanks to transcribed messages!} It is useful, simple and streamlines communication – and is good for the occasional laugh when it incorrectly transcribes the message with hilarious results. There are [...]
I’m NOT Smarter Than My 5th Grader
Yesterday my son Jared, who just turned 10, came home from school and said, ” We learned Prezi today!” While I was happy that he had learned a great presentation tool, I had this weird feeling about the fact that he had learned it before I had! My 5th grader could now teach me how [...]
Hosting a Virtual Bible Conference
It used to be that if you couldn’t make it to a Bible event you were out of luck. If you were not physically present then your only hope was that the teaching was recorded by audio or video. Thousands of dollars have been spent on travel costs both for attendees and speakers. Those days [...]
Using Technology to Love One Another
You may be thirty years old, sixty-five years old, sixteen years old – or even nine years old - and a common thread between most of us is our mobile device that gives us the ability to connect with one another. And yet despite the ability and ease to connect with each other we are missing a [...]
Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants: In Church?
Digital Natives. Are you a digital native or a digital immigrant? In 2001 Mark Prensky coined these phrases and captured history in the making. In a seminal article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Prensky described students in K-12 classrooms who were very different than the students those classrooms were designed for. They were from a new [...]
Great Blogging Resource
If you attended the Catch the Blogging Bug seminar at our conference on June 2, you may remember that I quickly mentioned “Blogging with Amy” as a good resource for learning all you need to know about starting to blog. I thought I would mention her site again for more people to take a look [...]
4 Tips For An Effective Website
The above video is the touching story of how God’s love reached a suicidal man through the Internet. The video was produced by Global Media Outreach, an online ministry that is using the web to share the gospel message with thousands of people around the globe– everyday. To God be the glory! As I watched [...]
Video Interview Tips
Video is the new medium of choice for communicating information. Here are some tips to helping you when conducting interviews for the web. Have a plan for what you want to accomplish. Come prepared with specific questions and if possible give those questions to your interviewees ahead of time. Don’t have the person look directly [...]