mike jones

Hosting a live event and wish you could interact with your event participants?

Is there a way that people could use the technology built into their mobile devices to provide feedback to what’s being presented – live?

Meet YouVersion Live!

I had the pleasure of getting a sneak preview this last week of the latest technological breakthrough from the Digerati team at lifechurch.tv lead by Bobby Gruenwald and Terry Storch. This team has developed some amazing things over the last couple of years and their latest is nothing less than brilliance!

As a follow up to the very successful mobile application YouVersion (which in short, allows you to carry many bible versions along with your notes on your mobile device anywhere you can access the internet), this new addition available in October gives mobile app users the ability to have live interaction within scheduled event.

The event does not have to necessarily be a worship gathering, but tied to YouVersion makes it seem like an easy fit. YouVersion Live allows event participants to take notes with a predetermined presentation outline, answer questions, submit prayer requests, give online, respond to polls (that can have results posted live for people to see)… just to name a few options. The setup on the event side seems very easy and my opinion opens the door to two-way conversations to take place. People want to be able to interact in an event and what better way to do so by using the technology most event participants already have at their disposal… web enabled mobile devices.

You can check out details and get a glimpse of the power of this FREE application online here. I can definitely see the use for this in worship gatherings at The Orchard where we have already seen the usefulness of live texting through tools like Jarbyco. What better way to get a pulse on what your crowd is thinking and feeling and how they are responding to what is being presented?

Are you ready and open for conversation?

Check out this brief interview I had with Tony Steward of Lifechurch.tv on the new YouVersion Live! Can’t wait for what’s next!

So the company we use at the church for email and web services was bought out by another company this last year and they decided it would be neat to migrate everyone over to new servers after the beginning of the year. Sounds great in theory but the migration has been very messy. We lost 6 email addresses and the old email system is still working (at least part of the time).

This means two things… if you sent me an email but didn’t get a reply back, I probably didn’t get it (as has been happening with a chunk of our staff). It’s also a reminder that in this day and age of technology, some communication can’t be left to email.

Anyway, I’m really excited to announce that the company that bought our old company and created this mess has now been bought by a third company. Now that we are migrating to a new system, I’m sure we will be going through this again in a few short months!

Yippeee!!!
Thanks for letting me vent

Peace.