When I first started this position at the diocese, I got a certain amount of push-back on social media from people I talked with. Why do we need this? What about privacy? Who would use it? How will this help or enhance our mission? All valid questions. This article that was sent to me does [...]
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Back in August I wrote a posting called “How Wired Do You Want to Be“, which talked about using mobile devices in churches. A friend forwarded on the following story to me. Some may say I’m a prophet. Others may say I got lucky. You make the call.
A wonderful update from Melodie Woerman: Yesterday’s “Brother, Give Us a Word” offered this definition of “mission,” a sometimes ephemeral concept for me: “Mission is primarily about making the presence of God incarnate, that is, visible and tangible, in a particular place and a particular time, where ever “the Body is lacking”and therefore most needed.” [...] I received this invitation earlier today for a very interesting workshop in January. It is called New Media Learning Day and will be at Emmanuel on Mercer Island on Saturday, January 21st. The conference is on equipping churches and leaders to understand and use new media in ministry. I looked at the different presentations and [...] A number of people have asked me of late, “What is the social media policy for the diocese?” That’s a good question. We are working on one at the present time and it is a challenge and a balance between making it a living document/policy and not to go overboard with rules and “what ifs”. [...] Phishing is the act of sending an email that falsely claims to be from a trusted source, in an effort to obtain your password, personal account information, or just money. One that I have gotten a great deal of lately is the “I’m in Europe, my passport has been stolen and I need $xxx to [...] For the last few months I have been wrestling with an idea that may or may not be ready for prime time. I may be going out on a bit of a limb here, but I would like to talk about using technology as part of the liturgical service. What I mean by this is [...] I have been meaning to write something about this since I first heard about this last week after seeing this video by Eli Pariser. As with many things, I got distracted and it got lower on my ever expanding to-do list. Here is another link on this, and thanks to my buddy Kat Lehman at [...] The following piece is from my colleague Kat Lehman in the Diocese of Bethlehem. She compiles a great little e-newsletter called IT@Diocesan House. It contains lots of information on IT and technical news as well as links to content useful to us in church IT work. To get on the list to receive this newsletter, [...] |
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