Using Web 2.0 Technologies for Communication and Fruitful Ministry

Roy YabukiDFW Director, Tech SpecialistInternational Students Inc.

Who am I?

Met God early, got to know Him in college

Japanese-American (Third culture)

Lived all over country… Grew up with computers Passion is ministry and helping people to do

ministry as effectively as God called them to This stuff does not necessarily come easy for me

either.

Goals

Make You aware about some of the things that are available

Basic sense of what is important for you to learn

Start dialogue about your ideas and questions and introduce you to a medium to continue dialogue.

Some places to go for questionsand to foster continuous learning

Other Relationship/Community TechnologiesPhoto/Video Sharing

Getting the Story Out Build Trust For Students/Support Partners/Volunteers Fun, sharing, viral

Makes Events & Lessons learned indelible Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, Vimeo

Wiki’s, Blogs, Groupware How to survive in… Wiki Mailing list (googlegroups, yahoogroups, iContact,

ConstantContact)

Web 2.0: Exploring Truth

Public Truth Sharing Media Blogs (can take password) Websites to share (e.g. http://lookingforgod.com,

http://allaboutgod.com/, http://www.biblegateway.com/)

E-mail – more private (mass & personal)GoogleTruth & Falsehood spreads quickly

Web 2.0: Exploring Truth - Personal Teaching & Discipleship Tools

Online Instant Communication – (Skype/MSN/Yahoo/Google talk) Supplements face-to-face Local/Long Distance

Group/Individual Returnees

Mission Facebook Causes section On Facebook donors, perspective supporters,

volunteers even students see what is happening catch the vision

See who is interacting with which students at what level… Share students Encourages Kingdom thinking Makes ministry less parochial

Web 2.0 is about organizing like-minded people in different places for causes

Mission Other Tools

Tool to allow Many people can develop content together

Tools to Organize online (Automated Event Planning)

Share ideas and so learn faster from collective knowledge

Web 2.0 is about organizing like-minded people in different places for causes

Rules of the RoadWeb 2.0 Technologies supplements

but does not replace direct human touch

Web 2.0 is intrusive and so forces transparency People will find out the truth Why afraid of intrusive things?

Everything is “live,” but archived so be wise about what say and reveal

Rules of the RoadNo more gatekeepers

Direct access is the norm Implications on our relationships with students Implications for making relationships on campus

Discipline vs. Nuisance Like anything, Weekly

gathering, visiting campus, prayer letters – takes discipline

Learning curve steep but getting gentler

Trends

More people around the world on the internet doing more things

US Adults US 18-27 Men

US 18-27 Women

Creators 25% 41% 37%

Critics 25% 45% 37%

Collectors 12% 29% 16%

Joiners 25% 59% 58%

Spectators 48% 67% 60%

Inactives 44% 22% 28%

Groups include people participating in at least

one of the activities monthly. From http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell/profile_tool.html.

How People Use the Internet

TrendsMobile Internet Will be Main Access

According to Cisco 2009, Mobile internet will grow 66 times in the next five years

Annual growth rate for Asia projects to 146% and 166% for Latin America.

TrendsThere will be more working together using the internet

Movements will spread quicker, Ideas develop and change faster. Resembles spread of a virus in the jet age

What about you?

What are your technology challenges and needs?

What are your goals for being at this seminar? Which areas in handout do you want to focus

on? May not have time to do all…

Community Building Tools

Social NetworkingSharing the Story – Getting the Message Out

Video – Stored on their site, Embedded on yours Photos Creating Easy Websites Mass e-mail

Social Network: Facebook

Facebook: Whats up?

Facebook: Chat

Social Networking - Groups

Media Sharing

Media Sharing: Tagging & Sharing

Other Media Sharing

Pictures

Collaboration Tools Working Together Helping Each Other

Working together Working together Making life easier ?! The Body being the Body Still need communication & coordination

Students/Volunteers/Supporters as innovators and co-creators Web is becoming more of a 2

way conversation than a store front.

Media Sharing: Video

Easy Websites

Mass E-mail

Collaboration Tools

Social NetworkingTechnologies for Sharing Ideas, Questions,

ResourcesMicroblogging (aka What is a Twitter and do I

twitter or do I tweet?)Group DatabaseEvent Planning/Registration

Social Networking - Groups

FreeWay to create quick

self contained social network

Takes time to manage and maintain

Social Networking - Ning

Event Planning / Registration

Eventbrite

BlogsForumsWikisProject Management SitesCloud computing

Sharing Ideas, Questions, Resources

Sharing Ideas: Blog

Like a Ship’s Log or a JournalObservations, What happened and what was

learnedChronological but searchable

Idea Sharing & Amalgamation

Story of the Journey

VISIT ISMTIPS.NET

Sharing Ideas: Forums, Wikis, Project Management

Forums“An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site. It is the

modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system. People participating in an Internet forum may cultivate social bonds and interest groups for a topic may form from the discussions.”

WikisA wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation and

editing of any number of interlinked Web pages/documents with easy search capability. In other words a place where people can store many documents that all of them are editing together to created a body of information. (e.g.wikipedia)

Project Management Sites

Microblogging

Cloud ComputingShared documents

Google docs Zoho Office Live Workspace

Shared Storage Microsoft Skydrive Box.net Drop.io

Communication/Training/Discipling

Voip/Screensharing/Conference Calling

Communication/Training/Discipling

Private Publishing Blogs/Wiki/Filesharing Scribd – books, booklets, etc. Slideshare.com

Mobile connection

iPhone, Blackberry, Google AndroidNetbooks & Cloud computing

Conclusion

ConclusionOther Resources

How do I? Online tutorials…

http://ISMTips.net to stay on top of this stuff and to share you

ideas… Not just about Technology but all innovative ideas.