Earlier this week, I was at the Asian American Leadership Conference in Fullerton, California, with about 350 church and ministry leaders. Along with Phillip Kim, I presented at a workshop titled "Technology 101" a basic walk-through on how current technologies can be used to help ministries be more effective. The 75 minutes flew by, and we covered way too much ground. Technology can be a blur like that some times. I was pleasantly surprised that maybe 30-some people came to our workshop; I had anticipated maybe 15-20 tops. (I felt really bad for one guy who had only one in his workshop.)
I covered an overview of essential Internet tools, and why a church or ministry should have a website, how blogs can increase conversation and visibility, an email newsletter, and podcasting. I aimed to keep it very simple and avoided jarbon. Best feedback I heard was from a non-techie saying that both of us kept it very accessible and we avoided jargon.
But Phillip brought the eye candy and great stories -- he works with Platt Design Group, who has designed a number of great staging sets with lights, sounds, video, and more. Platt has worked with larger churches like Mars Hill Seattle and Northland, as well as smaller churches, and even Sea World. Listen to the audio of how Phillip describes those projects; I'm working on getting the slides. Very very cool.
Here is a PDF of my handout with links I'd mentioned. [also view in browser] And you can listen to the audio of the whole workshop (mp3 runtime 1:03:34).
--- DJ Chuang, Director of Digital Initiatives + more @ Leadership Network
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