the stuff in my head

Liberty posted a wrap-up story about the conference. You can read it here: Liberty University Hosts Internet Evangelism Conference

Aaron commented on it over at The Voiz.

Aaron Flores‘ Videoblogging session from the Internet Evangelism for the 21st Century Conference is available online FREE. You can watch it over that the conference site. If you like it, you watch the rest of the streams for only $20, including my podcasting session(s) and the Blogging Session starring Will Samson, Steve Knight, Stephen Shields, DJ Chuang and myself.

Here are the notes from my podcasting workshop:

Podcasting and Internet Evangelism Session Notes [PDF 80k]

For hosting, also check out OurMedia.org for free podcasting/vlogging hosting.

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Here are the links mentioned in the blogging session- this is incomplete- I’ll add the rest when I can watch the archive video.

Blogging Panel

• Nick Ciske (me)
• Will Samson
• Steve Knight
• Stephen Shields
• DJ Chuang

Blogging Services

• Blogger (stephen shileds uses)
• Movable Type (steve knight uses)
• TypePad (will samson uses)
• WordPress (my fav)
• Xanga
• Live Journal (popular among teens)

Ping this

• Pingomatic

Blog Search

• Technorati

Blooging tutorials

• Blogging For Dummies [PDF]
• ldiot (Jonny)’s guide to starting a blog by Jonny Baker
• Corporate Blogging Guidelines from Thomas Nelson Publishers
• How to Start a Blog
• How to Get Into Blogs, 101 (good bloggers read other blogs)

The second session went well- the room was larger and less intimate, so the energy was a bit diluted… but it went well.

One thing I think was perhaps misunderstood, and I hope we cleared it up, was that blogging is not a threat to the church or the Church.

Will talked a bit about his crisis which led him away from the institutional church and into the Emerging conversation… which I think some people may have seen it a dangerous thing, it really isn’t. Blogging is just conversation, if conversation is dangerous… then not having conversation is more dangerous.

It is (among many other things) a safety net for many that have left the church (not the body of Christ) and need to talk things over. It’s a place for dechurched, unchurched, and hurt people to find friends who are asking the same questions, or who have gone through the same experience.

Day 1 was long but good. The blogging workshop went really well. There was good energy in the room and the panel was really clicking. We got lots of good questions and were able to talk about wide range of topics.

The networking dinner was fun- I got a chance to talk with Aaron Flores about vlogging. As we are both ‘multimedia’ bloggers we really clicked and had a good conversation about technical challanges and the future of the a/v blosphere.

My first Podcasting worshop went… ok.

I had some issues:

• I forgot to print off my notes, so I did it from memory.
• I hadn’t really given it a full run through… so I didn’t spend my time well- too much tech not enough ‘vision’ and I still ran late
• People didn’t have my handout (my bad- I handed it in late)

The tech demos had some bugs:

• Audioblogger wasn’t posting to Blogger (at least not in a timely manner)
• Ipodder didn’t like my FeedBurner converted (Atom->RSS 2.0) feed from blogger
• WordPress 1.5 didn’t automatically add an enclosure element like it’s supposed to (I think?!)
• I didn’t realize the projector had a decent speaker so I didn’t hook it up… thus people couldn’t hear my podcast demo (it really needs to be heard for full effect!)

Tomorrow will be better, I promise!

But, in the end, I got applause and some interested people. Hopefully we’ll see some new podcasts come out of this conference. Perhaps they’ll all be vloggers after Aaron’s workshop tommorrow (which I’m looking forward to attending).