Mobile Ministry Magazine

Upon my normal daily running thru many of the PDA forums, a good deal of them deal with the use and abilties of the Palm Treo series of wireless devices. Palm Treos are basically phones and PDAs grafted into one device. And while many people have no problem using one of these, as it solves a good deal of problems. There are many who are given Treos/Blackberries and other devices that need to get with other people so that they can get a better understanding of their device (and maybe a chance for some social networking).

So last night at an impromptu (for me as I only found out about it yesterday afternoon) Treo users meeting, I was greeted with something in my Palm usage that has come up a good deal recently, and even brought me back to my roots as a PDA user. The something was the idea of true mobility being the ideal of being able to control my environment with the device that I have and not the device controling how I am living in the environment. And though I have to admit that I have some ways to get to that point again, after years of trying a ton of software, not all which was productive; I do know that for a minister to be effective best with any technology, it has to meet a need as well as be a solution to their environment.

I'll expand on this one in future postings; but its safe to say that I have a better perspective of using my Treo in the settings that I have applied it for.