Crowdsourcing: another Web 2.0 term for online collaboration
Saturday, July 28th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | 2 Comments »Crowsourcing is merely a geeky way of saying "two heads are better than one" ... only with web-based Software as a Service applications. Here are three examples of crowsourcing apps we've discussed before: Wiki A wiki ...
Google + Sprint make mobile missions easier with WiMax
Friday, July 27th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | No Comments »Imagine being in the mission field, either full time or as part of a one-week effort sponsored by your church. Imagine now being able to communicate with your congregation, sponsors and/or family using an Internet service provider ...
How churches should view the CNN YouTube Debate
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Fast Five | No Comments »Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative or something in between, here are five things those involved with their church and/or charity's online presence should observe and learn from the CNN YouTube Debate: Format Flow Focus Failures Feasibility Format - note of how questions were asked ...
Pastor uses CRM system to track congregation contacts
Friday, July 13th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Resource Filled | 2 Comments »Imagine empowering your pastors and lay ministers with the ability to leverage their cell phones, home computers and/or office email to track follow-ups with visitors, schedule visits with members in the hospital, track prayer requests and other contact-centric information from ...
How Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner just made sermon syndication simpler
Friday, July 6th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Resource Filled | 2 Comments »One of the huge upsides of RSS feeds are their ability to get your message out to a broader audience immediately. One of the huge downsides of feed syndication is that they are often consumed by aggregators, applications that often ...
iPhone & your church web site, iPhone & usability, iPhone article round-up
Friday, June 29th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 5 Comments »Later today, alot of folks will be shelling out almost $600 to adopt Apple's latest offering, the iPhone. A device that consolidates three popular mobile applications onto a single platform - delivered via a radically re-factored ...
Maximize your summer missions impact with disruptive technologies
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Theology | 1 Comment »Right about now, a number of you are creating checklists of what to bring on your summer missions trip. Here are a few technical items you might want consider, to help keep your family and/or sponsors up-to-date via your church's ...
How to go mental with online mind mapping software
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Reading Room, Resource Filled | 6 Comments »Mind mapping is defined is a diagramming process which includes a central key idea, task or words, radially surrounded by child or peer ideas, tasks or words. In the end, you wind up with a octopus-like picture of a mind-dump. ...
CWADD: Church Website Attention Deficit Disorder
Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | 2 Comments »I write today to bring to your attention a growing malady among those seeking to find a church home online. Today I write about CWADD: Church Website Attention Deficit Disorder - a growing disease that continues to make our crufty ...
A comparitive cornucopia of online office ’sweets’
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Reading Room, Theology | 5 Comments »Microsoft Office is dead - at least that is the conclusion I read between the lines of a "Read/WriteWeb article" by Richard MacManus. Taking the opportunity of today's public beta release of Zoho's Meeting, MacManus compares and considers ...
WiPeer: near perfect tool for your church office and meetings
Monday, June 18th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Resource Filled | No Comments »WiPeer is a suite of applications for collaboration in server-less situations, such as committee meetings, retreats and/or church conferences. These applications include forming local social networks, chatting, file sharing, searching among shared files in other computers, and interactive multiplayer games. What ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation | No Comments »As big a fan as I am of the Software as as Service (SaaS) model, it does have its downside - mosty when the server (or servers) the service is on goes down. Such was the case this morning here ...
