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Ministry in the Digital Age, IE Day Contest

Ministry in the Digital Age

Was good to see this note of Dave Bourgeois’s book Ministry in the Digital Age now being available.

…What are the best evidence-based practices to implement? How do you best truly integrate digital, rather than just bolting on a few social networking options to an unchanged structure?

For these things are no longer optional luxuries. Any ministry or non-profit without an effective digital and social media policy, owned and understood by the whole team, is doomed to near invisibility and likely failure.

Dr Bourgeois takes you through both the strategic planning and the practical steps for implementation. On his book page, he explains the background to the book, with an online preview of the introduction and appendices…

That news was found via our friends at Internet Evangelism Day, who also highlighted that post with a contest to win a copy of Ministry in the Digital Age. Here are the details:

Do any of these things before the end of May, then email me to say where I can find it along with your postal address, and the winner, chosen at random, will receive get the book:

  • Tweet about this page using this ready-made link, or include the #ieway hashtag
  • Share this review on a Facebook group or personal page
  • Link to or republish this review (an edited summary is fine) in a blog
  • Syndicate our blog posts to your Facebook personal or group page using Networked Blogs
  • Embed our daily Paper.li news roundup into the margin of any webpage or blog – just copy the code from the ‘Share > embed this newspaper’ link at top-right of Digital Evangelism Resources.

Makes for a solid investment, and once my summer swing gets done, I’m sure we’ll have a copy of this in hand to get reading on as well.

For more information about Dave Bourgeois and his work in digital ministry, check out his website and see the fruits of that work with the Biola Digital Ministry Conference.

Biola Digital Conference 2012 Sketchnote

There was a point during the Biola Digital Ministry Conference where it was put out there and became a calling card of sorts that I was sketching my way through the sessions I attended. That made it all the more important to get this up and done. It is a very small slice of what I’m finding in back-channel talks was a very wide and deep connect for all of us who attended. This is definitely something you’d want to put on your radar for next year.

Biola Digital Minsitry Conference 2012 Sketchnote by Antoine RJ Wright
(Click on image to view full-size PDF)

Biola Digital Ministry Conference 2012 *updated*

Biola Digital Ministry Conference, MMM Presentation landing page

The 2012 Biola Digital Ministry Conference will be getting started in a few hours. I’ll be doing a session on the first full day of the conference talking about making ministry websites mobile which features some information from past posts including pieces from the Mobile Ministry Methodology and our look at the biNu Mobile App Developer Platform. As usual per our presentations, you can view these by going to our Issues, Presentations, and Experiments page.

Presentation Link

About the Biola Digital Ministry Conference

The Biola Digital Ministry Conference
is designed to empower individuals with the vision, knowledge, and relationships necessary to be thoughtful designers, developers, and practitioners of digital technologies for the cause of Christ.

The theme for this year’s talks is “the disruptive nature of digital.” Also new to this year’s conference is a three-pronged attack on the topic areas: Theology, Strategy, and Technology. You can bet that there will be some amazing insights passed along not just from the speakers/presenters, but also for those attending to glean and share. Take a look at the sessions listing, there’s a lot of neat items being brought to the front of the digital ministry discussion.

Keep up with the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #bioladigital. Depending on things, I might even get a chance to sketchnote things when not speaking/conversing.

Upcoming Conferences: Biola Digital Ministry, ICCM, and More

If you’ve been paying attention to the wealth of events noted on the #mobmin (mobile ministry) calendar, you’d know that its been a pretty rocking time in terms of conferences as the spring as worn on. With summer meetings just around the corner, we wanted to let you know of two upcoming conferences we’ll be attending – with the hope that you’ll come out to one or both and join for conversation, networking, and knowledge sharing.

Biola Digital Ministry Conference (June 5-7)

The Biola Digital Ministry Conference is designed to empower individuals with the vision, knowledge, and relationships necessary to be thoughtful designers, developers, and practitioners of digital technologies for the cause of Christ.

This conference features 14 speakers, a Digital Ministry Hack-a-thon, and sessions grouped around technology and practical applications. Besides the weather, I’d recommend attending this conference if you are looking to hear not just what’s happening in the digital ministry space, but also how to position you/your ministry/your organizations for future trends and disruptions. There’s the Biola Digital Blog featuring some of this year’s speakers to give you a taste of what to expect in this year’s conference.

For more information and to register, visit the Biola Digital Ministry Conference website.

International Conference on Computing and Mission – aka ICCM (July 16-20)

The International Conference on Computing and Mission (ICCM) is an annual informal (NO ties allowed) gathering of women and men who have a common interest in computers and mission. We share a vision of cooperation for effective use of technology, bringing the Gospel to every nation.

If there was a geek fest specifically for ministry, ICCM would totally fit as a great sounding call. Feeling one part like an IT retreat and another like an IT refresh station, ICCM is very unique from other conference formats in that it (a) happens over the course of the middle of the week, (b) emphasizes spiritual fellowship and accountability as much as IT and (c) offers a unique opportunity to hear from those persons working in ministry support areas as easily as you hear from those who do more strategy-focused activities. Moving to Colorado Springs, CO this year (from its usual location at Taylor University in Indiana), there seems to be a neat energy about the connections and sessions happening.

From poke that I got via Twitter yesterday, there may still be some time to take advantage of early-bird registration. For more information, including learning more about the other ICCM events happening (Europe and Australia), visit the ICCM website.

Other Events this Month to Take Note Of:

  • CTIA (mid-week conference sponsored largely by mobile ) began today; news and press releases will be trickling out throughout the day (check out relevant highlights using Twitter and the #ctia, #ctia12, and #mobmin hashtags)
  • The Christian Media Conference starts tomorrow (5/9) in Australia (Gold Coast)
  • Mobilism starts 5/10 in Amsterdam
  • eLearning Africa and the Open Mobile Summit happen in the 2nd half of this month.

For more information about these and other events, add the #mobmin (mobile ministry) calendar to your bookmarks, favorites, or RSS reader.

[Event] Biola Digital Ministry Conference (June 5-7)

Just a heads up that the Biola Digital Ministry Conference is coming up in a few months (June 5-7). The theme for this year’s conference is the disruptive nature of digital.

The Biola Digital Ministry Conference is designed to empower individuals with the vision, knowledge, and relationships necessary to be thoughtful designers, developers, and practitioners of digital technologies for the cause of Christ.

There will be three tracks this year: theology, strategy, and technology. I’ll be doing a breakout session teaching folks how to (quikcly) build a mobile website, and there will be a score of opportunities to network with many ministries and organizations throughout this mid-week conference.

If you are a missions organization, developer/development shop, or just have some general interest about what’s happening in the space of digital ministry, definitely consider coming out. Would love to connect with you if we haven’t already there.

For more information, including registration and session topics/speakers, visit the Biola Digital Ministry Conference.