Earlier this year (and yet another conference), MMM got a chance to hear from the creators of FaithVillage about their goals for their platform and community. One of those things that you tend to find out in meetings like these are the synergies that exist between ministry efforts and there was certainly some with MMM and FaithVillage. To that end, we’ve partnered with FaithVillage to syndicate some of our content as an official Content Partner. A little more than simply adding our RSS feed to republish content, the Content Partner is more like featured articles that accent the intentionality of the FaithVillage mission and fosters a maturing community interest on a subject.

The first item published was a piece where we challenged the idea of doing mobile than a mobile app or mobile website:

Your mobile device has a camera, speaker, microphone, ability to record audio and video, compose messages in a memo or in a text/email app, receive/make voice calls, send/receive DMTF codes . . . whew. You get the drift. And, if you are like me, your mobile probably does a bit more, like HDMI or composite video output, an FM radio receiver and transmitter, a memory card slot, can attach to USB accessories like portable hard drives, memory keys, has the ability to receive files via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, or can send multimedia content (DLNA, AirPlay, etc.) to a media center device.

There is a lot happening within that little device, and you have to constantly not just consider what it is that people think is the default of what they want to do, but also consider that there are many other screens pulling on their attention spans.

If you want to be noticed then your approach has to be distinct.

You can read more of our syndicated items under the Technology section of FaithVillage’s featured articles.

If you aren’t a member of FaithVillage, and have been looking to add another quality social media stream into your life (or perhaps, you are one of many wanting to leave Facebook, but want to maintain rich connections with friends and opportunities), then I’d definitely steer you towards FaithVillage. There’s a lot within the community there, and at the very least, you know that there’s at least one familiar voice on the other end waiting there also to connect with you.

Connect with the group Mobile Ministry Interests, or connect directly with Antoine at FaithVillage