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20 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Is There Room for Twitter in Church?

I wonder if this is similar to a question asked a long time ago: “Is there room for ‘musical instruments’ in church?” We’ve integrated a live Twitter feed into our young adults service (foundryLA.org) beforehand, during meet & greet time, and sometimes afterwards. Live on the “Presbytron” and coordinated with the lighting design. People seem [...]

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02 June 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Community Through Technology : Part II

If you haven’t read Part One, lets recap. Back in the day, people lived closer and had community with each other. In Los Angeles and many other places, we’re so spread out, that we generally don’t. With the some of these popular web applications going mobile, how do we use them to help build real [...]

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26 May 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Twitter in Perspective

With all of our frustrations on Twitter being unreliable lately, Dan Farber posts a good blog on Twitter and the bigger picture: The obsession with the ups and downs of Twitter among my friends has generated a great deal of bloviation, including my own. On a slow news weekend, Twitter’s performance problems are fodder for a [...]

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23 May 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Community Through Technology : Part I

Back in the day, people were in real authentic community with each other… in that, I mean they knew those around them, were involved in each others lives, celebrated in the good time, and helped each other during the bad. Mainly because people were isolated to smaller areas. Before cars, they walked. Before telephones, they [...]

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