2011-12-19T12:06:47-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/internet http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/6548 2011-12-19T12:06:47-05:00 Church websites have huge potential. The Internet Toolbox for Churches offers a regular podcast with vital information on this area. Some podcasts are rather self-indulgent chats with a lot of padding around the content. This one isn't. It is 28 minutes of sheer clarity and practical guidance by David Hakes, so good you'd pay to go to a conference to hear it as a seminar. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/5826 2011-10-01T15:18:03-05:00 "If you’re not paying for it, you're not a customer. You're the product being sold." So says the Consumerist Blog, in relation to Facebook, Google, or any other "free" online service. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/5249 2011-08-27T06:01:40-05:00 'Did You Know' videos have been a challenging overview of the effects and challenges of digital communication for several years. You can download this latest video for seminars and meetings. http://internetevangelismday.com/videokristi.php 2011-06-20T13:47:00-05:00 A student finding truth and meaning on the Internet. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/4348 2011-05-27T09:34:30-05:00 I'm not yet 30 years old, but my experience of the world growing up as a teenager is vastly different to that of teenagers today. It's been a shock to consider how different our worlds are. Below are a couple of documentaries by PBS that explore how the internet is changing every aspect of our lives, and the challenges for children who are growing up in this very different world. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2687 2010-10-14T07:16:24-05:00 The largest ever global research project into people’s online activities and behavior has just been released by TNS Digital Life. Covering nearly 90 per cent of the world’s online population through 50,000 interviews with consumers in 46 countries, the study reveals major changes in the world’s online behavior. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2390 2010-08-18T06:51:00-05:00 Researcher and author Nicholas Carr has written extensively about the way the Web is rewiring our brains so that we cannot concentrate on longer-lasting tasks such as reading a book. http://internetevangelismday.com/no-trick.php 2010-08-14T08:12:07-05:00 Using the Bridge Strategy “Use what is dominant in a culture to change it very quickly. It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender” – Carved quotation outside Ulazdowski Castle Arts Centre, Warsaw The Bridge Strategy is a major factor in effective online outreach. It allows us to target any group of people according to their special interest or felt need, hobby, ethnicity or language (I Cor 9:19-23). This is a quite remarkable and unique capability of the Internet. However, it is important that there should be no element of trickery in either bringing people to the page in the first place, or the content they find when they reach it (2 Cor 4:2). At the same time, any outreach site should use appropriate contextualization for its readers: the X-Spectrum enables us to define this on a scale of 1 to 6. http://internetevangelismday.com/tellyourstory.php 2010-08-14T07:20:06-05:00 Do you share your faith online in any way? Did you find God through the Web? Have people joined your fellowship because of your church website? Personal stories are the ideal commendation for the Web as an outreach medium. We want to hear your story. It can bless others, and encourage them to also see the potential of the Internet. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1483 2010-08-09T16:34:16-05:00 The world-changing spread of the Web are charted on this interactive world map displaying figures from 1998 to 2008. For more interative maps from Charts Bin on a range of statistical developments, including web users, mobile subscribers, and many social trends.