Downsides of mobile phone use: infographic
Whatever the downsides of mobile phones (and everything has downsides), mobiles remain an incredible evangelism opportunity, both in the West and the Majority World.
Why buy a smartphone? Which operating system to choose: Android or iPhone?
Check these recent posts on using phones in evangelism and discipleship.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7659
New phone app provides training in conversational evangelism
This app distills the experience that Doug Pollock shares in his books and seminars. Its purpose is to equip Christians to share faith appropriately and conversationally. It is not intended for non-yet-followers to download or look at (unlike the Talking About Jesus app). These principles apply both offline and online.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7677
Digital behavior infographics: context for Christian online ministry & evangelism
These useful infographics reveal the context in which we minister online. Although these are based on US statistics, doubtless other western countries are broadly similar.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7587
Spiritual questions in The Hunger Games movie
The Hunger Games movie has released across the world, with critical acclaim. It may not be a film that would appeal to your mother, or perhaps even you – if your demographic is not teens and twenties. But be assured, most of your church youthgroup and their peers will see this one. And it's definitely not a lightweight high school comedy. This is deep and serious.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7630
Left brain versus right brain communication - infographic explains the difference
We hear a lot about 'left-brain' and 'right-brain' these days. Below is a helpful infographic summary. Of course, most of us are a mixture of both sets of characteristics, depending on our personality, gender and the culture we live in. But one side may tend to predominate.
A huge significance to these differences: our digital communication culture, and therefore the biggest influence on the way we all think and communicate, is much more 'right-brain' than the print communication it is rapidly replacing. Evangelism and ministry is changing too.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7581
How to use video clips for social networking and mobile phone evangelism
Since its launch in 2005 (history), YouTube has grown to be the definitive place to find and share video shorts. By 2012, 60 minutes of new video content were being posted to YouTube every minute, with over 2 billion videos viewed worldwide each day. It's the default place to post short clips, with Vimeo as a distant second for longer videos. YouTube is now the world's second-largest search interface, after Google. Video shorts are a strategic opportunity for social networking and mobile phone evangelism.
http://internetevangelismday.com/video-outreach.php
Arial views of Calke Abbey filmed by model helicopter
Calke Abbey is a stately home in UK's East Midlands. Here’s a fascinating video shot by a friend of a friend using small radio-controlled battery-powered model helicopters (3- and 4-rotor) carrying a video camera. They are an amateur version of police or military drones. The pilot wears a headset to see from the ground what the camera sees and navigate accordingly. It really is almost like being up there. There are many spiritual parallels in flying.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7545
Mobile phones are a major key to evangelism and discipleship
There's one message that we need to write on our hearts: THINK MOBILE. Whether you're a web designer, church, social networker, bible or book publisher, or mission agency, mobiles are a vital key to evangelism and discipleship.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7383
Challenge and need for online content curation by Christians
There is a big need in the fields of evangelism, discipleship and missions, to offer people a 'best of' list of resources, perhaps with added value advice too.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7224
Mobilize your church for digital evangelism with these suggestions
Internet Evangelism Day is both an annual focus day and year-round resource guide for digital outreach. It has always been our suggestion that churches build a digital evangelism focus into their events or service sheets on or near that day. In previous years, although this could be an eye-opening challenge, actual involvement in digital evangelism or ministry was not something that many church members were likely to take up. The options were somewhat limited, time-consuming, and needed technical or writing gifts.
No longer! Social networking enables any online Christian to naturally share resources that explain some aspect of the good news
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7397