Today is e 7 year anniversary of Mobile Ministry Magazine (MMM) being online. That’s something that almost didn’t happen. At the Lord’s suggestion of going online with it, I didn’t think that it would be something usable, let alone sustainable. And yet here things are, 7 years later. It wouldn’t have probably jumped online if not for Palm Addict:

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I’m getting a chance to look back at 7 years of doing MMM and its been interesting. I’ve had all kinds of trouble with posting images and video until I figured out how to easily do the YouTube embed code on a mobile. Archiving has also been interesting – and its been there that Dropbox has probably been better than most. Each device, each service that I’ve used has been infused with some sense of “if its going to be mobile, then it better add some time to my life.” That’s been one of the lessons that seems to resonate throughout Palm Addict, and clearly has done the same with me as I’ve evolved with MMM…

Read the rest of Mobile, PA, and 7Yrs at Palm Addict

Palm Addict has a lot to do with MMM. Am very grateful for Sammy’s support and the posts there that have tuned my thinking on mobile in ways that I am still only beginning to understand.

I asked at a meeting with several internet ministries last year if there was a methodology to their behaviors/intentions to use the web as a connection point for evangelism and discipleship. I was concerned in many respects, because while I was listening to a group of people passionate about sharing the fruits of their faith, I heard very little about understanding the implications of being in this space. This magazine takes the posture of bearing to understand the implications of mobile before and during sharing the passions that make mobile a suitable addition to the toolkit of ministers and developers alike. To that end, we poke a ton – its unique and then some. And then… its not all that unique at all:

…Corman believes that the spread of “hacktivism,” which first made mainstream headlines when Anonymous attacked the Church of Scientology in 2008, demonstrates that “those who can best wield this new magic are not nations. They’re not politicians. The youngest citizens of the Net don’t even recognize allegiance to a country or to a political party. Their allegiance is to a hive. In some ways this is very exciting. In other ways this is terrifying.” The terrifying part, for Corman, is that the Web gives individuals immense power without instilling the “compassion, humility, wisdom, or restraint to wield that power responsibly.”…

Read the rest of In the Battles of SOPA and PIPA, Who Should Control the Internet at Vanity Fair

What do you get about this level of access, security, connectivity, and affordance? Do you understand that content isn’t king, the person who designs the user experience is king – and you are simply a steward of one part of the field? Are you concerned about DNS activities? Or, does your mobile lifestyle begin and end with those communications which happen without the facilitation of global cables, interested governments, and occasional support of standards bodies?

Nothing about tweeting a post embeds compassion, justice, or even the hope of the Gospel into the Internet. That only comes when that tweet intersects with the personal reality of the person reading it. Its relevant (and therefore points to salvation) when its personal. Nothing more, nothing less. This isn’t a magic hat. Nor is it the best thing since sliced bread (though, you can argue that there are probably more mobiles than sliced bread in the hands of folks and that might be near-correct). What do you understand about the implications of telling people to go see announcements on Facebook – when you are also not teaching them about Facebook (or Internet) addiction? The two go hand in hand in terms of lessons – as well as hand in hand in terms of how you lean on these communication technologies for the prosperity of those reading/listening/watching.

Do you need to understand everything about how the Internet and mobile works in order to do ministry? No. Should you know as much as possible about the implications of it not working for whatever reason – whether you can solve it or not? Yes. And its to that end we exist in this space… its not that unique at all, just an acknowledgement of something different amongst the hype of the moment.

The other week, we were approached with shuttling some of our content to a mobilized service. That service would basically take the RSS feed and then do some optimizations in order to make it work best for its platform.Well, we’ve got a lot of content here, and one of the items that came back to us was that we’ve got a lot of content and it makes it hard for them to figure out the best way to present our content. That’s a problem, but also speaks to the nature of the content here at MMM, and some of what has been happening behind the scenes to make the experience of reading the most relevant content more possible.

Developing The Firehose

Back when MMM got started online (April 2005), we had a model that was basically a copy of many of the high-traffic websites of the time: publish, publish, publish. I can remember at one point putting up 5-6 pieces a day, and many times unique pieces. For those not knowing what MMM was (amazing how folks stumbled upon us via a simple search), this wasn’t a bad thing. But over time, that got to be a bit much. We went to a single-post-a-day schedule many years back, and for the most part have been able to keep a consistent and constant stream of content flowing.

With that change in frequency came a change in the type of writing. I noticed from the analytics that the longer posts that we made had people stick around a bit longer. And not just to read that post, but they were most likely to go visit someplace else on the site. I shifted into making long-form content, best suited for contemplative reading – rather than quick skimming (other tech sites went this route) – but not to the length of what would be found on many theological sites (dissertations I tell ya). That change was also good for consistency, but a pain in the butt for organization.

The Battle to Organize Content

The move to WordPress from Blogger presented a chance to address some issues in terms of how content was organized on the site. At the time of that move, there were almost 3000 posts published and not quite a half of them were tagged/categorized. Google moved Blogger to a tagging system in the midst of our writing, and – well, its a lot of work to go back and retag content. I did a retaxionomy of the content based around some tighter editorial needs in that move to WordPress, and for the most part, its served us well.

What you might not have noticed is that some of those old posts from Blogger (see, http://archived.mobileministrymagazine.com) have been slowly making their way into WordPress. Unfortunately, the amount of content and structure of content wouldn’t import into WordPress, so each post has to be individually added to WordPress, retagged, and then categorized. That’s just something that will continue to take a while. In the meantime, there’s new content being produced that meets the current organizational schemes, in that long-form method, that’s usually quite unique, and generally posted on a consistent basis.

See the fun?

Steps of Manage the Firehose

Now, you would think that with some background in content management and information architecture that we probably shouldn’t be in this situation – but the fact of the matter is that MMM has changed over the years, as has its audience, as has the content. There are some streams of content not as often posted here anymore (direct software and hardware reviews), and there are others which tend to get much more the light of day (processes and UX matters). Where the content here becomes usable for you is in two offerings – based on the detail of the types of categorizing that happens here:

• Search
• RSS

Search is probably the most important (and most used) functional feature of this resource. Mainly because it is able to not only deal with the content that we’ve organized, but also dig a bit more into what we haven’t organized (thanks Google and WordPress). One of the pieces that is (unfortunately) missing from our mobile website is a suitable search interface (this is present on the alternate mobile website however). Not sure how and when that could be addressed on the mobile site, but its clear – at least from those of you who come here via Internet Explorer/Firefox/Safari that its a needed feature in terms of getting around.

RSS is the quieter feature used to manage the amount of content here. The way its used is actually a crafty by-product of the tags and categorization system present within WordPress. Every category and every tag points to a page that has its own RSS feed. This means, if you are looking at a subject area (perhaps Mobile in Missions/Evangelism for example) and you want to just get the updates for that stream of content only as it is published here, then all you need to do is either click on the RSS (orange colored) button in your URL bar, or take the URL for that page (http://mobileministrymagazine.com/tag/mobile-in-missionsevangelism/) and just add “feed/” to the end of the address and you have just the data stream for that page. Nearly every page has that functionality built in – and I’ve just not done a great job in talking about it.

The Missteps in that Firehose

The problem with things comes on some of our static pages (Bible apps, Case Studies, etc.) of which there is a listing of content, but those items are merely just a listing. There wasn’t a design to that set of data other than just putting it out there, making sure it linked to the right places, and sat under the correct subheading. That’s now biting MMM in the butt. Especially with the Case Studies/Resources page, there’s just an increasingly deep listing of content, and outside of searching on the page (click F3 on your keyboard if you are on a laptop and you can search within any single webpage), you just will have a hard time of finding what you are looking for.

WordPress is a decent content management system. However, making it work for this application (a multi-contextual listing of resources) would be stretching it a bit – even with extensions. The goal for each page is to be available, but to also be easy to manage. Until recently, that’s not been a problem. The query from the mobile services provider poked at that crack in the wall and we’ve got to figure something to do around it.

One of the solutions is to republish every resource and link on those static pages as a posting with their own set of categories/tags, and then build a custom page that would be able to contain those items. For those reading the blog, that’s going to be a lot of content coming through – and while some might be good to see, there are a lot of links to republish there. Another solution is to use the Links feature within WordPress, and then create a series of custom pages that would display those links as organized. Some of the work to do that has been started (in the background), but I’m still not sure what the final result will look like – though it will be a breeze to manage.

How You Can Help

As you can see, we are indeed aware of the amount and level of content that’s published here. Contrary to some opinions, we are quite focused as to what gets published and how it stays relevant to the overall purpose of this magazine. What we don’t know is how you engage the content here? That kind of information would help us better address what comes out of this hose, and how to continue to make sure what comes out is valuable. With that said, a few questions:

• Do you use a mobile app to view MMM? If so, which app(s) and why?
• Do you use an RSS reader to view MMM (which, why)?
• Do you use either the normal or alternate mobile websites?
• Do you use the email subscription via Feedburner to read content? If so, how do you archive, organize, resource those emails?

Thanks for your feedback on this. And if you have other ideas on how we can better manage the amount of content that comes here, do feel free to chime in via an article comment, the contact form, or Twitter (@mobileminmag)

Caught both of these last week while taking in some of the tweets happening during the Breaking Development Conference (#bdconf). I’ll let the quotes and full articles pretty much speak for themselves:

Desknots are connected devices that present alternative contexts and form factors for non-desktop computing… Desknots aren’t (necessarily) mobile. Desknots aren’t (necessarily) wireless. Desknots aren’t (necessarily) personal. Every category of desknot has contexts, form factor, use cases, and usability considerations that are very different from the desktop. It’s useful to have a term that suggests: “hey, it’s not just about the desktop…

Read the rest of Desknots at Global Moxie – would you agree with the term?

In light of desknots, there’s also this reclarifying about what mobile is and isn’t. Here’s a listing of some mobile myths from Josh Clark which break this down:

mobile myth #1: users are on the go and rushed

myth #2: mobile = less

myth #3: complexity is a dirty word

myth #4: extra taps and clicks are evil

myth #5: you gotta have a mobile website

myth #6: mobile is about apps

myth #7: cms & api are for database nerds

I’d recommend reading in detail why Josh Clark calls this myths on the full post at his website. At the moment, I’min agreement with all but one of them (go ahead guess that one).

How do these perspective fall inline with your existing thoughts about mobile? Do you gain clarity, or is there a muddling of definitions?

A few days ago, a post went up over at the BigBible Project talking about six ways a phone can change your view of the Bible. An insightful and reflective post, the six points were:

1. Instant access to a library of commentaries and translations
2. Make the text your own (w/highlights, notes and bookmarks)
3. Bible reading becomes public and social
4. Bible reading can be monitored and held accountable
5. Bible reading becomes private and invisible
6. Software is interpretation

Those reasons caused me to reflect a good bit towards how I’ve changed and evolved because of Bibles on my tablets and mobile devices. Some of the points from BigBible Project’s article fit – but then I realized how I’ve gone in a bit more on aa few of them.

For example, the idea of instant access to commentaries and translations is less important than what it used to be. I’m more interested in the sociological, geological, and other historical documents that affirm or challenge the text. Instead of highlights and bookmaks, I draw. I don’t care to be so public with me reading; but I do like the ease some services offer in sharing the text (such as Bib.ly and Ref.ly). Software is definitely interpretation – and that’s where I feel that biblical literacy shouldn’t just be reading the text, but building it as well. Its interesting, and through that list I can see how far I’ve come since getting that digital Bible on a PDA more than a decade ago.

So what about you? How has tablets and mobiles, or just the access to various Biblical services or classes, changed how you use or view the Bible? Do you see anything to be alarmed about it what has changed for you? Or, do you like the way in which you are evolving?

One of the requests we’ve had out there for sometime is some testimonials, or case studies, in which those whom are building applications and services that service mobile and mobile ministry endeavors can be highlighted and lend some light to the depth and challenges in this space. A response came from a company, Enterra, whose post on business mobile application development, specifically from a developer’s point of view, is quite appreciated. Here’s a snippet of this expansive and well-written piecce:

…One of the main steps of contract preparation is writing a SOW (Scope Of Work) – a brief list of requirements to the application. For small and medium projects SOW is enough to start the development. For large-scale projects after the contract signing there’s a preparation of technical task.

SOW and technical task are a formalization of developer’s and customer’s vision in terms of the developed applications. It’s an opportunity to get sure that the vision is the same, the borders are set and the wishes are known. But these documents are strictly technical and may not fully reflect the business processes inside the app. So it’s best to read the documentation thoroughly, ask about all the terms and require comments for acquiring your wishes.

In some cases the estimation changes after preparing the SOW, mostly to the larger side. Maybe you came out of your own task borders. Maybe it turned out that the cheaper technologies cannot be used, and the more expensive ones are required. Maybe the contractor offered something more expensive, but more progressive or easier to deploy. The decision of continuing/cancelling the work is up to you and your trust to the contractor. But I strongly recommend to discuss all the changes. If the increase of cost is really required and useful, the contractor will always be able to explain in adequately…

Read the rest of Business Mobile Application Development: The Developer’s Insight at Enterra

The perspectives in this mirrors our mobile minsitry methodology and how we’ve recommended you approach building a mobile ministry app/website, while offering some very real accounts of what works and what doesn’t.

For more information including getting a quote for development work, visit Enterra’s website.

Depending on your intent or audience, the rise in the use of Facebook on a global scale can indeed be a phenomenial thing. At the same that such a service is rising in use and monetary valuation, there’s also this implicit desire by faith groups to ride the wave so to speak and make sure that the key ideas and traditions of those faith practices aren’t lost in the shuttle to the walls, fan pages, and likes.

Excapite is a website where many times, that which seems sensible is thrown against the wall and asked if it truly sticks. In a recent post there, Nigel posted a graph comparing the faith book (participation in a weekly religious activity) to activity on Facebook. Well, I’ll first let the graphic speak:

Interesting picture isn’t it? Nigel prefaces this graphic saying:

You see when I crunch of the numbers and I review all the theories and exhortations from the Social Media experts and Tech Gurus about the wonders of social media and the mythical network effect I am left with the only one conclusion. This is not science. This is not economics. This is not mathematics. This is a belief system.

And so I wonder to myself. If it is a new belief system. What belief system is it disrupting? What is disappearing to make way for the great social network revolution?

Strong statement right? Faceboook as a belief system. You’ve read the terms of service, its nothing more than a cannon of beliefs and conditions, none of which were negociated – but agreed to. Similar could be said for nearly any web service that asks for you to invest some amount of time, narrative, and finances. That’s a strong pull, and a common one to many society’s ideas about civilization and interaction. Could Facebook be equated with being a religion? Can the Bible or any religion turn into something more attractive for spiritual, social, and financial growth than Facebook (not ignoring the rich tradition of the Talmud and how it constantly evolves)?

I asked a pastor one time about his perspectives on Facebook after hearing him remind his church community about the announcements and other information they leave to a Facebook fan page rather than a conventional website. Of note, I asked, “are you teaching about Facebook addition with the same energy that you are using to tell people to go there and engage with your community?” He looked at me with a gleam in his eye as if that was one of the best questions that he’s never heard. His response was no – it never cross his mind that Facebook addiction would be something that intense to talk about.

Then there’s that graphic above. I wonder…

I will admit that I’ve only thought on this end of things here and there. But, its there. And at least in respect to thinking about these implications of mobile, it makes sense to at least broach the subject: what if we look at mobile the same way we look at animals? What would the ministry implication look like in that respect?

What Got Me Down This Line
Of those implications to mobility, and evolutions within this space, one of the areas I see coming down the pipe is that of cybernetics and AI. This idea that technologies can be grafted onto the organic/natural facilities that we have, and with some kind of computational nature that goes a bit beyond what we might have realized within ourselves. Its not a prediction of where things are going so much as it is an observation. And as such, insights on the subject have interested me beyond the fictional accounts of future-scapes that I read often as a child:

…Donna Haraway, theorist on our transformation into cyborgs, published ‘The Companion Species Manifesto’ in 2003. It addresses the relationship between domestic dogs and humans, but there is much in there to inspire designers of smartphones, apps and agents.

“Cyborgs and companion species each bring together the human and non-human, the organic and technological, carbon and silicon, freedom and structure, history and myth, the rich and the poor, the state and the subject, diversity and depletion, modernity and postmodernity, and nature and culture in unexpected ways.”

Using inspirations from theory such as Haraway, and fiction – such as Philip Pullman’s ‘Daemons’ from his ‘Dark Materials’ books – we can perhaps imagine a near-future that is richer and weirder than the current share-everything-all-the-time/total-gamified-personal-productivity obsessions of silicon valley.

A future of digital daemons would be one of close relationships with software that learned and acted intuitively – perhaps inscrutably at first, but with a maxim of ‘do no harm, with maximum charm’…

Read the rest of Berg London’s snippet of ‘Companion Species’.

With my mobile, as highlighted in a piece about contextual UIs at my personal website, there’s this interpleay between the context of my environment (day, night, connection of Bluetooth accessories, etc.) which alters the state of my mobile. Even so much that its basically now a matter of “just keeping it fed” with power of cellular connectivity, that makes it just as much a living accessory to my life as it does a tool to enable activities. I can see this perspective that a mobile is very much adapting and adjusting to its environment, and I’m its caretaker. Which leads me to wonder what implications that has when it is a tool for more than just notification of some communication event.

A Perspective
The reading that comes to mind is found in Genesis 1:28:

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

The materials that make up mobiles are found in the earth. The ores and knitting together of them by electrons and other ingenoius methods have made something that was once not “living” into something so attached ot our daily lives that to some degree, it is now given life. We speak to our mobiles and they respond (Apple’s Siri as a recent example). We personalize them custom ringtones, themes, and such. Then we add abilities to them with the applications we install (like that scene in the Matrix where Neo was trained by simply downloading the knowledge into his brain). They aren’t sentient, but there is some aspect of stewardship to these devices that very much mimics how we manage our associations with animals and other entities on this planet.

But, mobiles aren’t like this you say? Aren’t they? Don’t you cradle your’s in a case, maybe even a near-personalized one? Perhaps you went for a lesser case for the mobile, but have that custom ringtone or ring-back tone – you know, that song that’s createed by you, or has some knd of meaning because its like someone or something close to you? Wallpapers, alert settings, even the arrangemetn of the apps that you use, carefully curated and managed on something that doesn’t live… or does it?

I’m not making the argument that at some point devices will be much more llife-like. In some respects, they will be, and they won’t be called mobiles. But, in the methods and behaviors of use that we have, there is this almost lfe-like attention we pay to them as if they were compensated assistants. To that, we must ask the question that goes beyond tools to something more like accountability and stewardship – if your mobile could talk about you, what would it say about how you’ve treated it and what you do with it?

Some weeks back, we put out a thought asking if the use of 4Sq and similar location-broadcasting social networks could minimize the need for pastors to have offices and add some accountability to the activity of intermissional ministry (this post)? It met with some comments via Twitter, but I think it took some of the in-person chats in an interesting direction. While many people responded that it probably wasn’t a bad idea for a pastor to not have an office, they weren’t sure how other ministral functions would be effected. That’s fair – we only talked about the behavior and activity of the pastor, not those who support their ability to be prepared, present, and preaching.

So, let’s take it a bit further, and address the idea of presence and then see what we can do to build into digital spaces the perspective and behaviors that make sense for pastorial contexts.

Location, Location, Location
We’ll start with the aspect of this idea of an office that usually/rightly gets the most traction. Location. Well, its not so much the where of location that people are looking for as much as it is a sense that they can spatially orient themselves to your time and presence. Once someone is able to resolve this spatial relationshp, everything else tends to make sense.

This is the first aspect of this idea of digital/virtual pastoring that seems to throw folks off. Not so much that they will always access the pastor in that space, but that they know that in such a space, that person has a posture of availability. When that space is thrown into a virtual perspective, its hard to resolve “oh yea, pastor can help me becuase they are where I am.”

Show Me Your Face
Pardon me for saying, but I always find the story of Moses asking to see God’s face one of humor and obsuveness (is that a word) by God. For one, he mooned Moses (“I’ll show you my hinder parts,” funniest thought ever). Then, it wasn’t even that Moses got to see God’s face, he engaged with his voice, but not the entirity of His identity. That’s what Moses wanted to engage, and I’m not sure God was quite up to letting Moses do that.

The parallel comes in when we are using technologies such as email, instant messaging, and SMS where we also have some baseline communication with one another, but each party isn’t on the same plane – they aren’t looking one another in the eye. Yes, the communication might be honest, but (to quote a friend), “I can’t believe you unless I can look into your eyes.” Video chat helps here (Skype, Facetime, video calling, etc.), but there’s still that break in the physical space that’s harder for some people to get over than others when it comes to matters of talking, teaching, or counseling.

Reach Out and Touch Someone
With each communication technology, we seem to want to get closer to the experience that’s so well felt when we are in front of one another face to face. Improvements in the performance of wired and wireless networks (speed, latency, resolution, etc.) as well as what we can do on those networks are simply a matter of trying to make that experience of communication as engaged as touch. And yet, it never quite matches. As mentioned in the previous section, each connection, device, application, and protocol adds a layer to the interaction that isn’t our skin (smell could probably be added here too).

And so the virtual office fails to be a point of touch in a literal sense. But, there is language, emoticons, and output interfaces (haptic feedback, electromagnetic waves, etc) which we put in place to imply that experience. Sometimes its successful; SOMETIMES WE WONDER WHAT IN THE WORLD FOLKS ARE THINKING (using all caps means what again). We get the connection, but not exactly the fullness of connecting that our senses are built for.

So, with those items in mind, how can we create a digital space – or even virtual one that takes into account the needs of the office of pastor-teacher, while at the same time embracing some of the positive value of these digital technologies?

Architecting the Digital/Virtual Pastor’s Office
Remember, we are starting from the idea that there is no (leased, rented) physical office.

In terms of location, we could use public spaces such as a library, coffeeshop, train/bus terminal, or even a city park. If we are simply working on administrative tasks, perhaps the quieter the better. If meeting with people one-on-one (virtual office hours), then perhaps we are meeting in a small business eatery that’s inside of the community of the local fellowship, or even owned by one of the members. Some churches have their own hotspots within their churches, perhaps these could be leveraged as location points as well?

Once the physical location is established, its up to the individual minister to set some ground rules: how long will you be available in this space; what topics are ok to discuss in public, and which need a more private affair. I’d like to think that from an IT perspective that there’s some consideration to data privacy, content management, and maybe even how you might be getting online. I’ve always liked the idea of using your mobile to be the hotspot, so that you have some sense of control and management over the connection in this case (might be an additional expense, so that’s got to come into consideration as well).

You’ve got your space, now what about your face? Perhaps in this digital office, you are setting aside a specific amount of time to respond to text-only messages. Emails, IMs, etc. might get some kind of priority ranking, in case you might be in that virtual space for admin reasons. If you are looking at doing video (video counseling, collaboration moments), then maybe you are in that more private place, but also not in such a public space that you’re speakers or voice are transmitting to those around you the confidental details of the conversation you are keeping. Though, you do publish it (“virtual office hours on Google Hangout from 10AM to 12PM on Tuesdays” kind of thing).

As for touch, I’d say that you’d do similar to what you do with the video and admin time, making it clear which times in that virtual space that you would be available for people to walk up to you and say hello for pastor-centric items, being open to the random conversations of the space in other times. We all want to be touched by the literal presence of someone else, and so to keep that in place allows some bit of leveraging what works digitally (announcing that you are there), and the best methods of people getting that touch if they are coming to you. If you are bringing the mountain to them (so to speak), then perhaps that’s an instance of muting or turning off the ability to be contacted by all except the most important contacts, making sure that you stay present in the presence of whom you are with.

In a post last year, we talked about a pastor going to this model; its good to look in and see the challenges and opportunites that have happened since.

Present and Presence as the Digital Thumbtack
The model of life here is that we can live and work by using mobile and digital technologies quite effectively if we take into account the environment, costs, needs, and audience. Within this space of mobile ministry, we are also inclined to take into account the implications of the technology to those we interact with. Its not so much a different balance than going without digital, but there are these items that we can do, which if we don’t consider the results could be a hindrance rather than a help.

While writing this, I’m sitting in a coffeeshop interacting with people coming in and out, sitting and reading, and such. I’m in my office, using things digital and virtual in nature, but staying aware and open to the senses God built in us in order better demonstrate the connection to Him and one another.

Mobile Advance has been putting together a series of How-To articles for doing mobile ministry. Here’s a snippet of How-To #7: Obtaining Video for Mobile Ministry:

…Watch, and get copies of the videos people in your host culture are already watching on their phones. This can help in several ways:

• You’ll get a better sense of what people like and are interested in. This will help you as you look for, or create your own, outreach media. You can also learn a lot about a people by examining what media they choose to watch and have on their phones.
• You may discover some videos that they are already watching that you can use redemptively
• You’ll learn how to transfer video between phones via Bluetooth.
• You and your contacts will become used to watching and sharing media with each other, making it much more natural when you start sharing ministry videos with them.
• The amount of local media on your phone will obscure and reduce the impact of having ministry media on your phone should authorities take an interest in what you’re doing.

Read the rest of How-To #7: Obtaining Video for Mobile Ministry and read other How-To articles at Mobile Advance (or, use RSS to always have the latest listings).