Kansas City #nwlc10 Pre-Conference Notes
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Thanks to everyone for attending and engaging actively at the Stewardship of Technology Pre-Conference at #nwlc10!
We mentioned a bunch of resources, and I’m hoping to list them here so you can easily share them and refer to them. Please add a comment with additional resources and more questions and comments and we’ll respond, as we continue the conversation on being better tech stewards.
View slides from talks: Chuck Fromm, Mark D. Roberts, DJ Chuang
View/Download Assessment Tool & Resource workbook (PDF)
Books
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World by Douglas Estes
- Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li
Articles
- “Technology overload” can ruin relationships: expert (Reuters)
- Technology Forges Relationships For Life: Tech Analyst Larry Magid Says Technology Doesn’t Isolate Families, It Brings Them Together (CBS News)
- Is Technology Taking Its Toll on Our Relationships? (ABC News)
- The Effect Of Technology On Relationships: The risks of Internet addiction (Psychology Today)
- Friends, Friendship, and Technology: An Ominous Sign – Laurence Thomas
- Does iPad have the magic to bring people together? (USA Today)
Websites & Other Resources
- Google Voice
- CyberHymnal.org – hymn lyrics, scores, MIDI files, etc
- streaming video: Ustream.tv or Livestream.com
- rezonline.org – online worship at Church of the Resurrection (conference location)
- List of Churches with Internet Campuses
- Blogging: WordPress.com or Blogger.com
- email newsletter: MailChimp.com
- Church Copyright Solutions, WorshipCast, CCLI,
- Reflexion – website & blog that Chuck Fromm is tech stewarding
- personal blogs for djchuang.com and MarkDRoberts.com
- [updated] To automate updating multiple social networks: Ping.fm, PixelPipe, HelloTxt, AtomKeep
July 21st, 2010 at 5:13 am
Great class yesterday at #nwlc10 on Tech Stewardship 101.
When I got up this morning, I thought of a few additional resources for assisting with posting to social networks.
We talked about these:
ping.fm
friend feed
and Zondervan’s “The City” scalable, private social network and church management solution
using Google voice to set up a prayer list access (and distribution) point via text
Here are a few others that I use, or have used to send prayer requests securely to subscribers:
lettermelater.com: gives the ability to delay email delivery so everything isn’t going out at the same time (we send each prayer request separately)
twitterfeed.com: takes a blog or any rss feed and sends it to twitter. Anything longer than 140 characters links back from twitter to the original blog. Google has a similar solution in feedburner.com
dlvr.it: another way to send your blog out
google groups: we use google groups to maintain the email prayer list. Functions as an email list server.
Feel free to comment or ask questions about how we did some of these things. Thanks for the great session and q&a!
Roy Baum
Covenant Baptist Church
Topeka, KS
785-256-0580 (Google Voice Number!)
July 22nd, 2010 at 5:09 am
Oops…one more site that I’ve been testing out lately:
http://www.sendingword.com
It takes one message, and sends it out to a few different methods, including Twitter (as a direct message), Facebook, Email, Text message AND phone calls.
It’s a work in progress…but it is not free. However, if you email support, I’m sure they would set you up with a trial subscription.