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The Church Limps Into The Social Media Age
Here is a brave attempt by a country parish to use social media (in this case, YouTube) to advertise for a new vicar. They seem to know they’re struggling with the technology but are not afraid to...
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Stephen Holmes On The Church And Social Media
I’m not sure who I saw refer to this recent video, it might have been Vicky Beeching. This is an interesting seven-minute interview with Dr Stephen Holmes of St Andrew’s University. I’d be interested...
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Social Media At Work: The Downside
Learnstuff.com has an interesting infographic about the downside of workers and students accessing social media in between tasks. It is US-based, so needs some translation for us Limeys in Blighty....
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The ‘Four Alls Of Methodism’ For Today
My church at Knaphill is redesigning its website. I’ve been asked to write a ‘Statement of Faith’ for it. While Methodism doesn’t generally produce doctrinal statements in the way many Christian...
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Justin Welby And Social Media
Bishop Welby’s elevation to Canterbury was announced by Downing Street on Twitter: Downing Street is pleased to announce the appointment of Justin Welby as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury...
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Guest Post, Gathering the Flock into the Fold Digitally: 4 Mobile Apps for...
Having just acquired an iPad, Jessica’s post is apposite for me. I confess I’ve had this on the stocks for a couple of weeks, but we have had major problems with our main computer, so it has had to...
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Carol Service Sermon: Shepherds Come, Shepherds Go
I’ve tried writing an address using an app on my new iPad called Haiku Deck. It’s a way of making simple PowerPoint presentations. You don’t get to do anything fancy with transitions, animations or...
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Nancy Duarte: Christian Values In Business Leadership
A while ago, I saw a great TED Talk video on ‘The secret structure of great talks’ by Nancy Duarte: I didn’t need much persuading to buy her book Resonate, about improving your presentations. (It’s not...
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Where Is The Internet Going?
Google Glass. The purported Apple iWatch. The thought that smartphones had already brought us the ‘Internet everywhere’ is about to be shown up as small fry. Such will be the personal and predictive...
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iPad Worship And Visual Impairment
The Daily Mail reports on a Derbyshire church that is sending its prayers, hymn words and readings over the wifi in the church café to worshippers equipped with tablet computers. Apparently it’s a hit...
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PowerPoint For This Morning’s Sermon
I didn’t have time to add the PowerPoint for the sermon I posted earlier today. Here it is. Once again, I have used that marvellous iPad app Haiku Deck. It also now comes as a web browser app, but so...
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