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Flickering Pixels – Chapter 6 – Internet & Post-modernism

By Paul Steinbrueck Jun 19, 2009 4841 Comment2009-06-19+15%3A43%3A45Paul+Steinbrueck

I’ve been participating in the group blogging project for the book Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps. Today I had the privilege of blogging about chapter 6. You can read my post here. In this chapter Hipps claims that communications technology led to post-modernism and it has also led to a flood of facts and trivia [...]

communications, technology

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Flickering Pixels – Chapter 1 – Why are you using technology?

By Paul Steinbrueck Jun 9, 2009 4262 Comments2009-06-09+13%3A29%3A56Paul+Steinbrueck

Yesterday marked the start of the group blogging project for the book Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps. Susan Stewart kicked things off with an post about chapter 1 . At the conclusion of her post, she asks an excellent question:

Are you using technology because it’s there (an idol)? Or, because it is the best way to communicate the message (a tool)?

I’d like to think I’m using each technology because it’s the best way to communicate, but if I’m totally honest I’d have to say that sometimes I choose certain mediums for other reasons. Two of them come to mind.

blogging, communications, technology

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Flickering Pixels Group Blogging Project

By Paul Steinbrueck May 26, 2009 3672 Comments2009-05-26+14%3A29%3A23Paul+Steinbrueck

Shane Hipps, pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church in Glendale, AZ, has written a book called Flickering Pixels – How Technology Shapes Your Faith. I’m going to be joining with a bunch of other people who love to think about Internet/ministry issues to discuss the book as a part of a group blog project starting June 1.

blogging, technology

book, Flickering Pixels

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Which best describes your organization's approach to assessing the value/ROI of social media?

We diligently track the source of all sales/goals so we know what social media is producing.
We look at trends. If our use of social media correlates with an increase in our sales/goals that indicates it's value.
You can't put a dollar value on relationships and so we don't try to assess the value/ROI of social media.
We're doing some tracking of the source of sales/goals, so we have some numbers, but we also recognize there's more to the value of social media than those numbers.
We're experimenting with social media now. We'll tackle the value/ROI issue once we get a better idea of what we're doing.
We know we should be trying to assess the value of social media, but we just don't know how.
We're not using social media.

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