Mobile Ministry Magazine

In light of all that I read and get thrown my way in terms of software/process opportunities, it was a nice heart-check, ego-stomp, and reevaluation of priorities this article that put be back in front of the Father appropriately.

Labels: development, stewardship, worship

Saw this article over at Mobile Active and thought that it would be really good to link to considering all the attention paid to SMS here lately. Here's a snippet:

...Smart texting is an advanced form of keyword response in which an incoming text message triggers a complex interaction. This may include calling external programmes to process the message, or requesting further information from the user. It can also be used to run an SMS information service, in which the incoming SMS contains a query ('WEATHER cape town', 'CROP PRICES cofimvaba') and the response is retrieved from a database or the web. Example: A basic citizen reporting system could work as follows: Someone texts the word “REPORT” and a description of the incident to a widely publicised mobile number...

Read the rest at Mobile Active.

In what ways could you enable your organizations, or even missions teams, to utilizing this technology (both the SMS and knowledge sharing) as a means to demonstrating the Gospel's effectiveness?

Labels: communication, development, SMS

This was emailed to me personally some weeks ago, but thought that it was a good enough idea for a Bible application that it should be posted here:

..a bible reader a [device/software] that reads you the bible every time you push a button, so say you listen to the bible every time you wake up. you can set the reader to 5-10-maybe even 30 minutes at a time. you could have it read to you front to back or you can have it read to you by topics like happiness or by forgivness "you know what i mean"...

Now, the person who emailed me this wants to bring this idea to light. If you are a developer and would like to get in touch with this person, contact us via the MMM Contact page and we'll get you in contact with that person so that this innovative and needed application can come to light.

Labels: accessiblity, developer, development, software

This is pretty neat for those of you looking to put your programming knowledge to some good use: Nokia's Calling All Innovators 2010 application development competition is underway.

This year's categories – Life Improvement, Eco/Being Green, Productivity and Entertainment - are bolstered by a teamup with the Sesame Workshop "to help support education related apps in the Life Improvement category with a view to encouraging developers to craft creative and exciting apps (possibly using Sesame Street characters) to teach early literacy on Nokia handsets to people anywhere in the world."

We've talked about before how the Body can put some of its gifts to good use, and this is about as good as it gets. And even if you don't enter the competition, folks like Mobile Active could use enterprising individuals who are willing to devote their technical knowledge to community and education-building causes.

Visit the Calling All Innovators 2010 competition website to learn more and to submit your applications to this worthy cause.

Via Nokia Conversations

Labels: contests, developer, development, education, innovation

I ran across this site while looking at something over at Wap Review the other week and after going through the site, have to say that its a solid resource for those of you looking for mobile web-oriented resources.

Coders.mobi is a collection of posts which speak primarly from the angle of developing mobile wesbites that follow the (dot)mobi standard. (dot)mobi is the - more or less - W3C standard for creating websites based around mobile content. And while there are some standards and best practices, much of this information is either hard to figure out, or harder to come by. Coders.mobi looks to put this information within one area and using a blog-based format so that items are easy to reference and search as needed.

So check out Coders.mobi, and be sure to interact with the author there for content that you are looking for - mobile video practices, mobile site development tools, analytics, etc. I'll pull in items from there here from time to time as much of that information will be very helpful to those who read and use MMM as a resource.

Labels: developer, development, mobility, website

Read this as I was finishing a work-week. And while my mind thinks often on the subject of mobile, sometimes, it takes really real stories of what's being done to help me gather perspective. This was one of those. Here's a snippet:

...She watched as I showed her how the application could download images, and how doctors could make annotations, and add dictations, and I explained how another doctor could open the application across the globe “While on vacation in France, perhaps.” and listen to the dictations and read the annotations. She stared at me in utter disbelief as I went through the images, and turned the application to landscape mode and zoomed in and out. I retold the story of how a retina problem could lead to blindness if not immediately treated, as her young assistant, who had now moved in for a closer look, stared at the iPhone screen...

Read the rest of The Closing Argument at the iPhone BioTech Blog.

Really, there's not much more that I can say from this except to quote what an MMM partner once told me: technology is only relevant when it is personal. Let's make sure that in all our use of mobile, that we are truly keeping God and our hearts in the right place.

Labels: development, gifts, iPhone, medical, mobile, stewardship

This is a subject that I'm working on understanding a bit more these days - in part because I sit on the line between Gen X and Y - that being the subject of the role that mobile (devices, services, lifestyles, etc.) play in the cognitive development of youth (youth being under the age of 18yrs).

There is a post over at the Next Great Thing blog which goes into this and takes a similar view to what we took here during the Parents and Mobile Kids series. Namely, that even though technology is moving faster, for these kids who are digital natives they "will still have to navigate developmental cognitive stages" just as we all have. Though the NGT blog is geared towards marketers, this article shows some of the insight within other fields which helps to recognize and better understand the implications of mobile technology within this intersection.

Labels: community, development, mobility, parenting, teens, teens. youth