Tech Steward

At the Stewardship of Technology pre-conference of the National Worship Leaders Conference in Albuquerque, DJ Chuang presented these slides to start our discussions about the role of a tech steward.

I’ll append additional links and notes here to continue our discussions on this role. The stewardship of technology is something we’re all learning together collaboratively — we invite you to join the conversation. Please add your comments.

Resources mentioned:

• YOUR BRAIN ON COMPUTERS:Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price (New York Times); also cf. Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains (The Atlantic); Does iPad have the magic to bring people together? (USA Today); Twittering in Church, with the Pastor’s O.K. (Time magazine)
• Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li and The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change by Beth Kanter
• my findings on the fans of World of Color
• Reflexion – website & blog that Chuck Fromm is tech stewarding
• personal blogs for djchuang.com and MarkDRoberts.com

(For those who were not present, these slides may not make as much sense, since it’s not the typical bullet-pointed outline. )

Welcome to the TechSteward.net website & blog!

This web destination will be the place where we explore the stewardship of technology in the service of worship. In the coming weeks and months and years, we invite you to be a part of this conversation of how new media technologies can be stewarded to better serve the worshipping community.

This blog is kicking off with a webinar series that is leading up to the Stewardship of Technology Pre-Conference of National Worship Leader Conference on July 19-22 in Kansas City, Kansas.

The webinar series will start our conversations online along with this blog. Then the conversations will accelerate on-site and face-to-face at the NWLC 2010 Pre-Conference — this will be a one-day pre-conference event at all 3 NWLC’s: Albuquerque on June 15-17, Kansas City on July 19-22, and Lancaster PA on October 5-7.

Please join us on-line and on-site and let’s learn together how we can be great tech steward!

“Not since the guitar came to church in the late ’60s and ’70s, has there been such a fundamental and radical shift in how Christian communities worship. What’s driving this change? New mobile media and social networks.”
– Chuck Fromm, Publisher of Worship Leader Magazine

Introducing the NWLC 2010 Pre-Conference: Stewarding Technology in the Service of Worship : “Worship has a New Operating System“

Join the conversation and discover the applications and implications of worship in a Google era. Available as an upgrade at all NWLC 2010 conferences.

Sign up today for the National Worship Leader Conference and this special pre-conference at nationalworshipleaderconference.com