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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Reflections while on the Plane

Not that this was something that could not wait, but since I am on the Nokia N800 and using WordPy its as good a time as any to compose a few reflections on BibleTech.

First off, I need to say that "I" needed an event. Just to be in the physical company of companies and people who think in the vein of "computer technonlogy should be used to glorify God" was refreshing and refilling. I literally feel refreshed spiritually.

Secondly, the first day was a lot of networking and listenimg to raw tech; day two pointed everything at Christ-leading. The call to accountability after seeing and hearing so much was "mature."

Some notable presentations that I would encourage you to lten to include Dr. Eileen Frankel's How the Jews Invented Web 2.0, Craig Rairdin's talk on a new SMS service for churches (called Church Texting Manager), and the two Olive Tree presentations.

You can see the "other" conversions via twitter by searching for the hashtags #bibletech2009, #bibletech, and #bibletech09. Some of us had that wrpng a few times (whoops).

I only got out on Saturday night with Wes and Greg but it was great. Seattle has a nice vibe to it; and great seafood dishes via Elliot's (thanks Camille and our driver for pointing that place out). Gabe's piece digital discipliship was so on point. And all the talk of semantics, linguistics, and makin better study methodologies was just "ooh" packed.

We flew around Mt. Olympia (a few minutes before I started writing this) and that was just awesome. Out of the clouds there's this mountain sticking out. I. Feel. Small.

More reflections to come. And also some important issues towards publishing, development, and accessibility that were brought to my attention. We have a lot to do in respect towards making sure no one is left out when we use tech - mobile or otherwise.

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This was really good.

UPDATE: Some updates of posts by Wes Allen, Mike Miller, and a photo gallery of BibleTech/Seattle from myself.

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