Sharing knowledge, information and experience promotes increased partnership and collaboration. This page will feature videos and other media that I have found helpful and want to pass along.
There are more than 2.3 billion Christians, more than 5 million churches, more than 43,000 denominations, and more than 12 million Christian workers across the globe. With all these resources amassed, why is it that the task of reaching the entire world is still unfinished? The Issachar Initiative desires to extend the reach of the Church to where the Church is not.
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Bridges with host Monica Schmelter: Interview with Toni Birdsong and Tami Heim, co-authors of “@StickyJesus,” discussing sharing your faith online. Bridges is the flagship program on Nashville’s Christian Television Network.
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At a recent City on a Hill event, Bob Russell spoke from his experience about how important modern media is in spreading the gospel during the perilous times in which we live.
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Web Summit 2011: Mary Meeker, “Internet Trends.” A partner at Kleiner Perkins, Mary is known to be better than anybody at summarizing the state of technology business through slideshow presentations.
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An introduction to The Table Project.
The Table is a relational online web application, custom-tailored for the church to help engage the community, empower leaders, and move people beyond the pews and into authentic life-changing friendships.
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Part of the world’s most watched Social Media video series; “Social Media Revolution” by Erik Qualman. Based on #1 International Best Selling Book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman. This is a shorter version that includes new social media statistics for 2011.
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This is a storyboard of “Where Good Ideas Come From,” a new book by Steven Johnson. How is the creative spirit unleashed? What causes innovation to occur? A central argument of Johnson’s book is that good ideas are not the product of lone geniuses, but of connected networks. “[W]hat I would argue, and what you really need to kind of begin with, is this idea that an idea is a network on the most elemental level,” he said in a recent TED talk.
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The Infinite Dial 2010: Digital Platforms and the Future of Radio
New national survey from Arbitron Inc. and Edison Research, reporting on consumer use of the Internet, digital platforms and their impact on radio. Study reveals that Social Media has become a part of mainstream media behavior. Another key finding – For the first time, more Americans say the Internet is “most essential” to their lives when given a choice along with television, radio, and newspapers.
Download The Infinite Dial 2010: Digital Platforms and the Future of Radio Presentation Slides (PDF)
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Though her severe physical disabilities limit her in everyday life, Sarah Coiner shares her heart and love for Jesus Christ with people around the world. Sarah serves as an online missionary and leads other volunteers in responding to emails from spiritual seekers and new Christians. Find out how to join Sarah as an online missionary with Global Media Outreach.
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Millions of people around the world are at a spiritual crossroads and turn to the internet for answers. Global Media Outreach is there to meet them in their moment of need, sharing the good news of new life in Jesus Christ and connecting them with caring volunteers.
“We are the first generation in all of human history to hold within our hands the technology to reach every man, woman, and child on the earth by 2020. Our generation has within its grasp everything that is required to fulfill the Great Commission.” Walt Wilson, founder & chairman, Global Media Outreach
Read more about Walt Wilson’s vision.
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Social Media Revolution 2 is a refresh of the original video with new and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman.
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For more than 50 years, Ambassador Advertising has been serving gifted Christian broadcasters making an impact on the Kingdom. Their partner list reads like a Who’s Who of Christian communicators including Chuck Colson, James Dobson, Joni Eareckson Tada, Max Lucado, Billy Graham, Franklin Graham and Chuck Swindoll. This video is a tribute to Ambassador founder Al Sanders.
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Frank Keffler’s introduction to the mobile phone revolution that has swept the world in the last decade. An analysis of how the church can take advantage of the unparalleled opportunity given to it by the 4.5 billion mobile phones carried by the unreached peoples of the world.
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The Internet is changing so rapidly that it is hard to keep up. Jesse Thomas has artistically wrangled this statistical juggernaut, in his video State of the Internet, to give us a visual of where things stand … at the moment. The video was created for the AIGA conference in Baltimore.