Unfortunately, funds and life have prevented MMM from being present for this year’s BibleTech Conference. There is always a lot of interaction, fellowship, and techie talk that happens, and I’m totally sure that by this point, I’d be recharging my mobile for the 2nd time in the day.
Mobile Ministry: Definition, Contexts, And State Of The Body happens to be a timely topic seeing that now many ministers and ministries are seeing that mobile is where they need to be and asking questions of where in ministry mobile fits. This talk recenters the context of mobile around the term mobile ministry, and then points to where mobile has been demonstrated in a ministry context.
In some respects, this presentation answers why MMM was started in the first place (to answer the question of what the Body is doing in mobile). And as such, gives the focuses to mobile ministry areas which might have been addressed, but maybe not as strongly because of the youth of this tool/channel.
View the Presetation (or scan/share the QR Code). The meat is in the notes (viewable by toggling the “slide view” (Ø) symbol at the bottom right of the screen). Per our usual BibleTech presentations, the information in the presentation is designed for consumption and mobile interaction.
(Abbreviated) Live Presentation via Qik
Blame a few folks for thinking that it was possible, and me for taking it further than my hardware and experiments usually go. But here’s an attempt to do this presentation via Qik. You can see the live presentation below, or visit http://qik.com/arjwright and then click on the video noted Live. If you have the Qik app, you should be able to interact with the video stream there.
This is being done over a Wi-Fi connection and using the lower-resolution front-camera of my Nokia N97. I’ll do what I can to keep this interactive, but I’m also really, really experimenting here. If it fails, BibleTech again gives some lessons learned and applied.
As for the rest of BibleTech, catch it on Twitter (#bibletech) and we can chat about what’s next in mobiles for Bible studies and other ministry endeavors along the way.
Further Discussing the Sketchnote/Mindmap
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011So, if you are taking a look at it, whether the image or PDF versions, start in the middle. I the middle we have the pod of mobile (in) ministry. In previous articles we have defined mobile (in) ministry as the application of any technology that sits under the term “mobile” and then ministry as those religious practices which forward the tenants of a faith practice. At the intersection of these technologies and faith practices we have the pod mobile (in) ministry.
When you say “mobile” there are many things that come to mind. For some that would be devices, for others that can be a service brokered or an experience (result). To understand this intersection, we need to understand all three of those components: devices, services, and experiences. So it is thru those three layers that we ask the question “where has mobile technology been used in a ministry context?”
So far, we have identified six areas in which mobile technology has been used directly in a ministry context. These areas we have been describing in increasing detail since the beginning of the year, but in a summary look like:
- Mobile in moment /personal: personal use of connected services and applications;
- Mobile in discipleship/education: curriculum development and educational explorations;
- Mobile in marketing/analytics: trends, development, statistics, and practices within mobile channels;
- Mobile in media: mobile content, applications, and services alongside broadcast channels;
- Mobile in missions/evangelism: contextualizing Gospel messages;
- Spiritual and psychological implications: theological and psychological/cultural effects of mobile vs other personal/connected technology media elements
In those six areas there are device, service, and experience components. Each has elements which can be asked or must be answered in the case of using the technology or deriving the theological benefits. In the sketchnote/mindmap this is essentially what is mapped.
As you pass through the layers, the context of that specific application of mobile is detailed. Sometimes, that is easily seen, other times, that’s seething with approaches which have yet to be fully explored whether in religious or secular domains. Here, we explore the entire picture. There are others which focus on specific streams.
I will admit that it makes the subject of mobile (in) ministry a wide and deep area. That’s what we get for asking a question.
We can continue to unpack this as questions and revelations come. What are some of the questions or comments that you have about this sketchnote/mindmap or about mobile (in) ministry that this brings to mind for you?
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