RWW had a great writeup of the Top 10 Web Platforms of 2009 and I was curious to know how many ministries are leveraging even a few of them?
Here’s the list:
I’d imagine that most ministries are using at least the first two, many are beginning to leverage self-hosted WordPress installations for their properties, and 2010 will be a huge rise of the mobile-ready church.
I personally haven’t seen much activity around the last half, and not that it’s of dire importance, but I’d keep these in the back pocket for this coming year to see if some ministries do something fantastic.
We should strategically engage with the technologies that the world is most using so that we can reach most of them. We don’t want to miss the train; it’s just too important with the work that we do.
[Image from Moran]
How 'bout a mobile version of the Church Crunch site to show us how to leverage the iPhone & Android phones a bit more?
http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/
I've been looking at that and have it on the roadmap. I honestly haven't found a plugin with which I'm comfortable with.
It'll be this year though.
Got any suggestions?
hmmm, I suppose 1 out of 10 is better than 0
which one?
Also, I've noticed a lot of churches are leaning towards storing data out in the cloud, utilizing services like the Amazon s3 services or any other type of CDN.
It's also interesting that you listed data.gov – I'm curious what's being done already in ministry, using any one of they're data sets.
I would probably say that most churches are aware of CDNs and the cloud, but the vast majority aren't actually using them.
it should increase this year i'd imagine.
I know of Churches that are using these tools but it really is a bad thing they are using them.
Mainly because they are not leveraging them, they are just using them to say they use them.
I think 2010 should be about leveraging tools instead of just having them to have them.
That's an excellent point, Kyle. I need to step up and help out with this in my local congregation. I know we "have" at least the first three, but we're still not "leveraging" them in any meaningful sense of the word. **Slap in my face** Time to go get on that…
-Marshall Jones Jr.
Agreed. Obviously some of these are probably worthless to the church… but the technology and the way data is transfered is not.
That's why I'm paying attention.
it's not the output but the method sometimes…
At my church I've implemented Twitter, Facebook, WordPress.org (in the form of my blog and soon to be released pastor's blogs), I'm in the process of transitioning our teams to Google Apps (end of the month), and the iPhone… will have a sweet mobile version of our new Cloversite (set to launch in February 2010)! So yeah! We're gettin there!
you're so ahead of the curve.
awesome sauce!
We switched to Google Apps almost two years ago, and its been great for our church. Some of these technologies are really great for churches, while I think other might be cool but not really important. Im not sure how the NY times api could really change the way anyone does church(at least for those outside of NYC). I read a recent post from a college min guy suggesting facebook isnt great for communication (over spammed and under read).