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shameonyoko — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:52:45 -0000

Thank you.

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shameonyoko — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:52:22 -0000

First, sorry for my delay on a response. I have been on sabbatical since July 10th. If you want, you can call me at the church 517-750-1111 and we can talk about this. Our service order varied. We used it a few different ways and continue to use it different ways. Sometimes, in a block. Sometimes throughout the entire service. Sometimes just during the message. Peace.

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shameonyoko — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:48:41 -0000

Thanks, man.

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John Panico — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:17:42 -0000

Nice post! And I love the attitude of "Why the heck not?"
I have a saying that I have in my wallet and refer to often when talking to clients and my home church leaders...

"because it's never been...
is no reason not"

KUDO's for taking the shot! In church marketing and social media, not all the shots you take are going to go in. But if you don't shoot, you can't score.

From my vantage point, it looks like a 3 pointer :)

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allisonfarnum — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:35:13 -0000

I really want to do this- I love it. We have rituals in various services where folks have time to reflect, write or draw a response to the Holy and then something special is done with these thoughts or reflections (depending on the theme). So with Twitter we don't need paper. Instead, these everyday objects lie our phones and laptops become sacred instruments - and the thought or feeling expressed just pops right up! I also love that it is not exclusive of introverts.

And we just got WiFi this year. But I need to do some schooling first about participation. What does your order of worship look like on days like this? We are still in hymn sandwich mode.

Thanks for your post.

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dennis morga — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:17:58 -0000

i was blessed by what you posted:)thanks keep sharing your wisdom...

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shameonyoko — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:05:27 -0000

Awesome! Let me know if I can help.

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juliaallison — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:34:16 -0000

I'm really impressed :) And actually - I've just sent the link to my own pastor! Thank you for inspiring us all.

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shameonyoko — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:11 -0000

Very cool.

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shameonyoko — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:59:53 -0000

You're welcome. Thank you!

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shameonyoko — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:59:08 -0000

And what is sitting and listening to a sermon and then going home like?

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shameonyoko — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:57:14 -0000

We used the Twitter home page and changed the resolution on the computer so you could read it on the screens well.

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robert — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:34:39 -0000

i have a question if you don't mind. what did you use for displaying it? we did it tonight for a film & theology thing using tweetdeck but i am looking for a better alternative.

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Stephanie Drury — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:34:09 -0000

I have a couple of thoughts on this.

Twitting your "religious experience" seems less like experiencing anything and more like just OBSERVING a possible experience....

Maybe that should be the gauge for tech stuff in church - if it makes you more engaged, more present, more incarnate it is good. If it makes you more transcendent, outside looking in, it holds the danger that technology always presents, the Walker-Percy-Lost-In-The-Cosmos danger of not living inside your life but watching it lived (like the fighter pilot bombing Iraq who came back to report "That was so realistic!")

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shameonyoko — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:20:19 -0000

That's just a screen shot that's cropped.

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JTurgeon — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:21:40 -0000

Great stuff! Loved reading this and the negatives of using twitter in the service. How did you get your feed to look like the pic w/o any sidebars, and profile pictures, reply buttons, etc?

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shameonyoko — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:43:53 -0000

We switched to Media Shout about 12 years ago. We use Media Shout and Motion Dive vj device for layered graphics. With Powerpoint, he could still create his slides and save them as jpegs to be imported into MS. Easy. Still, don't know about displaying multiple windows. That's one for my tech guys.

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jonniekiss — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:27:18 -0000

Thanks for the fast repsonse. So do you all use powerpoint for your worship presentations? What I was wondering if there is other presentation software out there that will allow multiple windows to display at same time from one computer.

Our pastor is really comfortable and really good at using powerpoint for his sermons and would like to avoid him learning a different software unless it really has multiple benefits.

I understand the multiple computer usage and that is an option for us. Switching should not be a problem. Thanks for the insight on that.

Jon K

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shameonyoko — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:16:51 -0000

Multiple computers and multiple screens for us, Jon. We alternated screens. Or, just two computers and a switcher to go back and forth. Does that help? If you want, you can call me at the church on Monday-Thursday and I can help you. 517.750.1111. Peace.

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jonniekiss — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:08:56 -0000

Like Picker I've found this discussion about 8 months late.

I've approached our worship media tech about using twitter similar to what Fusion has down but he tells me we could not have a twitter feed on screen at the same time as using power point which is what we use to run our slides for songs and sermon.

So my question to you Twitter Fusion folks is how did you accomplish Twitter feeds on the screens at the same time as other images/feeds?

Thanks for your help with this and thanks also for taking chances with new technology like this in and for worship.

Jon K
Columbus, Ohio

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Picker — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:23:30 -0000

so it appears that I'm about 8 months behind in reading this post, but after searching, this is the best source I've found for twitter in church. Great idea, and I've been thinking about doing this for my youth group worship time. Thanks.

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compassioninpolitics — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:53:55 -0000

I find the twitter flow hard to keep up with sometimes. And I can imagine so over a 45 to 55 minute church service might be the same.

I'm curious if I wrap up blog post to clear up some of the clutter in the conversation might help move these dialogs from passing fancy to something more meaningful and lasting.

In a world of information overload its important to help clear the clutter in order for the flock to stay strong, vital, and focused.

Great post!

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Jeff Finley — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:36:29 -0000

I refer to this blog entry in the religion blog I co-write for the Sun-Times News Group. My entry can be found at http://blogs.pioneerlocal.c...

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Erik w/a "k" — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:47:54 -0000

Wow. I love twitter! I am having a hard time grasping the concept of our church doing something like this. I would love to see it though. Thanx for your real and honest response to how it went.