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by Eric Dye
Online giving, digital detox, Periscope, and more!
Here’s your Church Tech Snack Pack…
…Enjoy!
We all know you should be careful with what you post on social media, but here’s a true story that illustrates this point with much clarity. It’s the story of a woman whose career and life were destroyed with one single tweet.
Justine Sacco only had 170 Twitter followers. She was unknown, working as Director of Corporate Communications for IAC, a media and Internet company. In 2013 she was traveling to visit family in South Africa and being bored out of her mind, she started tweeting.
Then she tweeted this:
by Jeremy Smith
The Buzzfeed video below is definitely entertaining, so do watch it for fun sake at least. But there is a grain of truth here that I want to challenge all church communication staff and volunteers.
Replace these individuals who have allowed themselves to be discovered with your congregation.
I have gone without an iPad for 3-6 months all because of unforeseen circumstances. I was the proud owner of an iPad Mini. Before that, I owned an iPad 2.
But, I never would’ve thought that I would be the proud owner of an iPad 2 once again. The excitement I felt to finally get one was like that of when I bought an iPad for the first time. I was most excited because I would finally be able to begin work on some illustration projects that I have held back on for a long period of time.
We’re talking comics, concept art, sketches and so forth and so on. And then we can’t forget about the fact that I can finally bring an iPad to church. Can you say “Bible App!”
All of that being said, here are 3 reasons why the iPad is essential for me and you:
It gets to my turn and the money is still on the table. My brother squints at me and says, “Mike, name 20 colors, your time starts now!” I think to myself ‘easy-peasy.’ After 3 minutes I shamelessly couldn’t mention 20 colors, our friend begs for the same question. She goes on to list over 20 colors, but not before us saying no to riddling her the same question. She mentions colors I never knew existed e.g. champagne. My brother and I play this game every once in a while, and it helps exercise our brains.
Long story short—that day I discovered that females can identify a whole range of colors, male counterparts may only see as one.
This infographic gives insights on male-female color perception/identification, preferences. The infographic titled ‘True Colors’ is put together by web analytics company KISSmetrics and it collates relevant data from numerous research, studies and polls on how different genders relate with colors.
Here are the top three points from this infographic on color perception that I loved:
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Every day, we process tons of information.
We read magazines, newspapers, blog posts.
We listen to podcasts and webinars, watch videos.
We browse social media, see tweets and pins and updates.
And we take it all in to make our lives better.
Or do we?