About this blog and its contributors

This blog is a church tech blog for non-techies. Our team of contributors have a finger on the pulse of the latest technology trends and will explain what that means for the church. This blog will answer questions like, "I am a senior leader of my church but not the techie. What do I need to know in the tech world now and for the future? What do I need to understand?"

Our team of contributors will be blogging here about the Internet, social networking, mobile phone devices, podcasting, vodcasting, blogging, wiki, databases, video techniques, and more. We'll translate the tech-speak into everyday language so you'll understand how to use innovative technologies, and to use technologies innovatively, to multiply your ministry's impact.

This blog is hosted by Leadership Network. The content here is written by individual contributors and does not reflect the views of Leadership Network.

Contributors

Greg Atkinson lives in Dallas, where he served previously as the Director of WorshipHouse Media, after having served as a worship pastor for 11 years. Greg is now on staff at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship and continues to consult, teach and write about innovation, technology and social justice. You can connect with him through his daily blog at GregAtkinson.com.

Tim Bednar is founder of Turtle Interactive, a pre-eminent software provider for the church and nonprofit sectors. He is best know for creating e-Church and is also a contributor to Godbit, a website and blog to help the Church adhere to Web Standards and best practices on the Internet. Tim lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dawn Carter is the Teaching Leader for the Moms with A Purpose Bible Study at Sandals Church in Riverside, CA. She has professional experience in the import automotive, ad agency and Internet startup worlds. She heads up Marketing and social media initiatives for Riverside-based 360Hubs, a software firm specializing in Internet Campus and secure social networks for churches and corporations. She blogs from her personal website about the high calling of being a mom, walking authentically with God, work life and the petrified McNuggets she finds populating the nether-regions of her minivan. She has a passion for connecting things: broken people with recovery, technophobes with technology, our hearts to our doctrine-filled heads, God’s love with the unlovely. When not Twittering, she can be found taking in a kick-boxing class or making her three kids and husband cringe with her bad jokes.

DJ Chuang serves as the Director of Digital Initiatives, Asian American Pastors Leadership Community, and Multi-site Churches Leadership Community for Leadership Network and also the Executive Director of L² Foundation - developing leadership and legacy for Asian Americans. Feedback about this blog may be emailed to dj.chuang@leadnet.org

Greg Davis has been working as an SAP consultant for the past 10 years and applying his passion for technology, communication and media in the local church for the past 4+ years. He is resides in Wilmington, DE with his wife and 2 kids. He can keep up with Greg at his Technically Speaking blog.

Matt Kerner is the pastor of creative arts and college ministry at Schweitzer UMC and focuses on using technology to connect the Gospel to new generations. He's worked in technology environments both in ministry and the marketplace. He lives in Springfield, MO with his wife Sarah and their dachshund Lucy. His personal blog is at kerner.net

Steve Knight is International Communication Coordinator for SIM (Serving In Mission), based in Fort Mill, SC. He writes about communication and mission on his Kingdom Journalism blog. He is also engaged in the emerging missional church movement through his involvement with Emergent Village. He and his wife Becky have three children (Olyvia, Hayden, and Elliot) and live in Gastonia, NC.

Aaron Linne is a Digital Media Producer for LifeWay Christian Resources, and a small group leader at Mosaic Nashville. Aaron is studying for a Master's in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston. Aaron regularly blogs at his personal site and with threadsmedia.com.

Dean Peters is considered 'infamous' by the rest of the digital.leadnet.org group. Dean has been teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design since 2002 over on HealYourChurchWebSite.com, based on his 25 years experience as a systems analyst, programmer, writer, youth Sunday school teacher, church web servant and dad.

Jason Powell is the Director of Information Technology at Granger Community Church (GCCWired.com) where his team manages a network of over 200 computers and 20 servers. Jason helps resource and network church IT staff and volunteers across the country through his blog (jasonpowell.net), live interactive church IT podcast (churchITpodcast.com), and the grassroots Church IT RoundTable organization (citrt.org). For fun he likes blowing stuff up on XBOX and racing his car. Jason and his wife have 2 sons and a daughter.

Todd Rhoades is the director of the Teaching Church Multiplier Project at Leadership Network. He also compiles stories and resources that would be of interest to pastors and church leaders at MondayMorningInsight.com. He lives in Bryan, Ohio.

Mary Beth Stockdale is the Connect Director at Suncrest Christian Church, where she oversees the Small Group Ministry and works to engage newcomers into the church family. She has recently begun to explore social media and technology as tools for keeping the Church relevant in today's culture. She is passionate about church leaders sharing their wins and working united as a true Body, and expresses this in her blog, breaking point. She lives in Schererville, IN.

Joe Suh is co-founder of MyChurch.org, the social network for Christian churches. He and his co-founder and wife, Carol, are computer science graduates from UC Berkeley and have worked at high-tech companies in Silicon Valley for several years before starting MyChurch.

Jim Walton has been involved in church technology for 5+ years in a variety of ways, both volunteering and consulting. He created and wrote at ChurchTechMatters.com for 4 years, writing about all aspects of tech in the church, both his own experiences and what he saw others doing. He can be found writing at blog.jimwalton.org .

Cynthia Ware along with her husband Bob, has served the Foursquare Denomination in pastoral ministry for the past 20 years. Their home church, LightHouse Christian Fellowship is located just northwest of Los Angeles. Cynthia blogs at The Digital Sanctuary encouraging Christian leaders to embrace and utilize new media technologies to serve the Kingdom of God. She is also co-founder of a visual media company that produces high definition web content.