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Christian blog - how shyness and writing gifts led one woman to start a Christian blog
Kelsey is a mother of four living in West Texas. She writes with compelling humor of life as a wife and mom in her Holy Mama! blog. She not only has a gift of writing winsomely, but knows how to communicate in a way that is accessible to non-Christians. Very few blogs achieve this: learn more. Note how even the full title of the blog is well-chosen – self-deprecating, non-threatening and humorous.
The other issue to flag up here: Kelsey is using a ready-made blog tool, and says she knows nothing about technical stuff at all!
http://internetevangelismday.com/evangelists16.php
Digital Rivers Newtown - a short story illustrating the growth of social networking
It’s not often that a completely new town is built on unused open land. But that’s where Digital Rivers Newtown was constructed, in a previously undiscovered valley. People soon came flooding in to live, moving from surrounding settlements such as Printville and TVtown.
http://internetevangelismday.com/facebook-story.php
Facebook Fan Pages as landing pages to promote your site or ministry
Interesting to notice that commercial companies (including new film releases) are now featuring Facebook Fan Page URLs in their TV commercials. Rather than initially point to their website, they use their Fan Page as a landing page which then links directly to their main site. The advantage is that people may become fans, thereby:
* opting in automatically to further news
* displaying to their friends the Fan Page link and its posts
* enabling discussion about the product or service featured in the Fan Page
Fan Page (and Facebook Groups) are highly strategic opportunities, either to make known your ministry to other Christians, or to creatively connect with not-yet-Christians. And, starting today, Facebook are introducing a new Community Page option.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1658
Amazing stats for how people use the digital media
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.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1483
Christendom is over. Post-Christian evangelism: presentation by Alan Hirsch
Perhaps the biggest challenge to the western church today is the shift in the last 10+ years to a post-Christian context. And people are just not that much into us any more. Alan Hirsch is one of the key leaders helping us to understand this changing context and change our ministry approaches.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1508
What does Europe believe? Christian look at Eurobarometer Poll results
Having just got back from a web evangelism conference in Lithuania, I thought I'd look up some stats for beliefs in that country, and found this remarkable table of Eurobarometer Poll results for the whole of Europe.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1583
Mobile phones and worldwide evangelism and mission
The Joshua Project has expressed progress in world evangelism using a Global Progress Scale. Different colors represent evangelism status.
It would be interesting to create an overlay for this map showing digital penetration in the red (unreached) areas, because many of these have medium to high use of th
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1314
Lateral thinking outside the box for Christians; using story for communication
In a rapidly changing world, we need to make frequent conceptual leaps for effective ministry.
A few years back, a European manufacturer of industrial drilling machines was suffering badly with competition from products manufactured in the Far East. Wisely, they called in consultants to help them see a way forward. “So, how would you describe your business,” asked the consultants. “Well, we sell drilling machines, of course,” they replied. “Well, actually, you don’t,” said the consultants. “You enable people to make holes.” This new way of perceiving their role led them to switch to making laser-equipment for cutting holes, with renewed business success.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1341
Understanding social networking from a Christian perspective
Dr Bex Lewis has produced a valuable overview of social networking (she has called it elseshere a ‘cheat sheet’) on her blog Digital Fingerprint. Check out the rest of the blog for many insights into the nature of social networking.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1276
Avatar: new Cameron blockbuster promises embedded spiritual meaninngs and parallels.
Superlatives reign. Movie director Cameron does it again: probably the most expensive film ever made. And in 3D. Took 14 years to make. With its own language to out-Klingon Klingon.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1127