Mobile Ministry Magazine: Beginning of the Week Update (MMM)

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How do churches, mission groups, organizations, communities, parents, and people respond to life when their use of mobile technology intersects with their faith? Here, we not just ask that question, but present the foundations for answering it. Read more about Mobile Ministry Magazine (MMM) and its mission/vision.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Beginning of the Week Update

Greetings all. I'm back from celebrating my birthday (Sat) and just having an enjoyable and very busy weekend connecting with friends and family. To get started with the week, I'd like to share some of the links that had been sitting in my RSS feed list this weekend that I am just getting to.

Laridian has a PocketBible 4 for Pocket PC Preview posted on their blog. It looks like this will be a very good update to those of you already using Pocket Bible. And those of you on the fence about it might really want to take a look as well; looks spiffy at this point. Beta testers are being asked for as well. See the post and a video of PB4 at the Laridian Blog.
TonyDye has posted about the start of a CITRT group on LinkedIn. CITRT stands for the Church IT RoundTable and plenty of believers from around the US are a part of this group encouraging and sharing knowledge of what works in tech in their respective areas. Do connect on LinkedIn and the CITRT website.
Frank J. at Strategic Digital Outreach shot MMM a note about a post on his blog talking about how ministries are using SMS as an enabler to connect people with ministry outreach events. Very cool stuff.
Don't forget to vote in last week's poll about MMM taking itself literally to being run off a mobile device for a week. This poll will close later this week.
There's a relatively big announcement coming in the next day or so about an extension to the MMM family. Stay tuned for that as many of you might want to link in with this fairly quickly ;)

Labels: Bible, Laridian, software

3 Comments:

At Monday, April 14, 2008 3:18:00 PM, Ken said...: Antoine,
Thanks for mentioning our comments regarding ministries using SMS at Strategic Digital Outreach.

Mobile Verses provides several mobile solutions to enable church leaders to connect with their communities. Our text services, Church Alerts and Text2Sermon provide instant interactivity capable of reaching every phone in the U.S. For higher end phones with browsing capabilities (also known as a new phone), we help ministries set up a mobile Internet presence.

With a mobile site and SMS gateway, our services provide outreach (and "inreach") that just wasn't possible only a few years ago.

BTW, first time poster. Just came across your blog last week (via Frank J.) and the whole team here loves it!

Connecting Churches to Members by Phone: http://www.mobileverses.com
At Monday, April 14, 2008 5:00:00 PM, Antoine said...: Ken; this is a very cool resource. I'll be sharing this with a few folks I know here in Charlotte over the week as I've been in the stream of helping churches and leaders better use mobile solutions to link people and the ministries they do.
At Monday, April 14, 2008 5:21:00 PM, Ken said...: Hey Thanks for any mentions you could provide - it would be much appreciated.

It just occurred to me that you wrote Mobile Ministry & the Digital Divide. I saw this posted at The Digital Sanctuary. This is a great article! And I hear it was picked up by N.R.B - congrats.