Mobile Ministry Magazine

One of the better ideas to have come out of Web 2.0 thinking has been that of mashups. Essentially taking the raw data or content from various websites and putting (or aggregrating) it onto one page or site. This is pretty popular with services like MyYahoo, Delicious, and Jaiku. If you will, the information is still important, but like shopping, you only want to go to one place to get what you need.

The idea of mashups in the Body and with mobile technology can have exceptional significane if we start to think about content as silos of information, and devices/services as enablers to manage and get to that information.

This is a question being explored in part on a recent post at the Nokia Mobile Web Server blog, but also something that we talked about with the Bible Concept UI. The idea being that there's no need to keep reinventing the content. All that we need is already there, we just need to build a better funnel towards getting to what we need and do it in a way that fits us, not how publishers and manufacturers think we can do that.

Concerning issues such as dispersing announcements during service, studying the Bible, or even connecting in community, how do you think we can utilize the ideas of mashups to create avenues to engage Christ and communities in ways that maximize our time and abilities?

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