by Lon on September 30, 2009
Ok, I just set up a twitter account for our community, http://twitter.com/mosaicbaptist
I’m sure you’ve all heard of it if you’re not already on it. Is it just a fad? possibly, but it’s a current medium for communication, and I’m open to ‘all means possible’ as the apostle paul declared.
Very basically for our purposes – it’s a short communication channel – you can think of it as a micro-blog that gets distributed to your twitter client (desktop appilcation, mobile phone / device, etc). There are many other uses for it, but we’ll keep it at that for now.
99% of people just don’t ‘get it’ and it’s something that needs to be used for a period of time with a decent network of people to actually see the value of it. We’ll give it a try here, if it doesn’t work out, that’s fine too, and it can just be a one-way broadcast medium. If you’d rather not try one more techy thing out there, you can always also view the latest 3 ‘tweets’ in the sidebar on the blog here.
Here’s an interesting post on why churches should not twitter – if you’re wondering or have apprehensions.
Otherwise, you can sign yourself up at http://twitter.com
You can ‘follow’ our church community at http://twitter.com/mosaicbaptist
You can follow me personally at http://twitter.com/lon
See you on the flip-side.
Technology is suppose to enrich our faith, not take us away from it.
Here’s a short primer on what rss/subscriptions are – something i personally use to save time and stay on top of things. 
When you see an icon like this show up in a web page or at the top of your browser address bar – it means you can ‘subscribe’ to the site. It’s also sometimes linked or referred to as an RSS feed. With this, I rarely visit individual websites. By clicking on it, you can ‘subscribe’ to everything new that shows up on that web site, and it gets aggregated into a ‘reader’. I recommend google reader
Google reader collects all the sites that i’m subscribed to and brings it together into the one site that I visit. This way I don’t need to continually check or visit multiple sites for new content, I simply go to my reader application.
ie. If you want to subscribe to this mosaic blog, you can click on the orange icon up at the top, or you can click this ‘link‘. Make sure you’ve already signed up for a reader or register yourself for one afterwards at http://google.com/reader
You can subscribe to my blog here, and thousands of other blog and news sites around the world this way.
That’s your faith/tech update for the week. Hope it helps.
Beyond our own Mosaic Blog…
Want to confess your sins anonymously? try mysecret or IveScrewedUp.com
If you’d like to share a prayer or praise item? Try wethechurch.org
Missed service and want to try church online live while interacting with others in the foyer and in your row? check out lifechurch.tv
What possibilities do you see for the future church?
