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NAINConnect 2008 Workshops |
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Theme: Gifts We Bring
INTERFAITH COMMUNICATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
The digital age is changing everything around us, including religious communication. What required huge budgets and major industries is now available on our personal desktops, opening up unimagined new opportunities and skill-sets. In a time of globalization, how can the interfaith movement, local and global, best utilize these powerful tools? This workshop will feature a panel of experts sharing their stories and insights before opening up the conversation to all who attend.
PRESENTERS
Brent Andrew
Corbin Davis moderator
Fred Fielding moderator
Bettina Gray
Brent Andrew is Canon Director of Communications at Grace Cathedral, in San Francisco. He directs Grace Cathedral’s many-faceted communications, including traditional media and public relations, brand management, events management, publications, and online and digital communications. More at www.Gracecathedral.org.
Corbin Davis is a United Church of Christ seminarian at Pacific School of Religion with a background in youth work. He is the Youth Director of Sycamore Community Church UCC, an historically Japanese-American Church, and is concluding an internship at the Interfaith Center at the Presidio. Corbin is Conference Director of NAINConnect 2008.
Fred Fielding, Episcopalian, has a background in television production and youth ministry. He received an MTS degree from Church Divinity School of the Pacific. His thesis focused on combining video and principles of Appreciative Inquiry to further interfaith communication. Fred is NAINConnect 2008 Communications Director.
Bettina Gray is Communications Chair for NAIN and a producer and interview host for public broadcasting. With the support of NAIN she created the ground breaking series, A Parliament of Souls, for PBS and Vision TV which aired in 140 countries. More at Creativefilms.com.
Workshop is interactive - please post a comment and note your interest
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OPENING STATEMENT
Beyond email and surfing the web.
In this ever evolving world of communication, websites are becoming more and more like television channels. Many of us can already tap into and contribute to this growing amount of information where ever we are through cell phones and laptops. There is a great deal of content being produced by people all over the world. These are exciting ways of gaining knowledge and making our voices heard. At the same time, there are concerns about we can communicate with each other in responsible ways.
How do we navigate through this new world?
What will these new forms of communication look like in 5 years?
How can people of faith and their communities take part in meaningful ways?
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| 03/29/08 |
Judy Trautman |
YouTube Nonprofit Channels |
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| We have just begun experimenting with a YouTube Nonprofit Channel. As one of the first 300 subscribers, I received by Fedex a cute little Flip video camcorder. It is amazingly easy to use. Of course, it does not produce Oscar quality documentaries. But it does produce quite reasonable videos for use on YouTube. Pure Digital Technologies has a scheme to help nonprofits and NGOs acquire video kits. It would be fun to turn some young people loose with these to put their creativity to work communicating fresh, new ideas for your nonprofit.
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| 04/01/08 |
Paul Chaffee |
YouTube |
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| We are talking about YouTube as well. Thanks for these clues. We're going to follow up in San Francisco.
What kind of results are you hoping for.
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| 04/16/08 |
Judy Trautman |
YouTube |
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| We hope to add videos to our website via links to the You Tube channel. The channel also permits a payment scheme through Google. It remains to be seen whether our members are tech savvy enough or comfortable enough to actually use the payment method.
We have had some response already to videos.
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| 04/18/08 |
Corbin Ivi Davis |
YouTube Nonprofit Channels |
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| Judy-
I think you have tapped into one of the many realms of possibility in this new digital age.
I think the challenge is to not just "use" youtube, but to think systematically about how to use it.
Who do we invite to create videos? Who is viewing them? What is the ultimate purpose?
I think this kind of intentionality provides an opportunity to truly reach those who are seeking us and just don't know this.
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| 05/26/08 |
Woody Trautman |
"Second Life" |
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| Another digital phenomenon whose potential for attraction and meaningful participation is seemingly boundless is the web-based SECOND LIFE. Google will provide all the info needed. In short, our local Bowling Green State University, has developed a digital virtual campus on Second Life and we would like to help it include a Multifaith Conferenc and Retreat Center. Such could attract thousands from all faiths worldwide who wish to share their faith journeys. We welcome experiences, suggestions and collabotations from others. Perhaps this would become another communications frontier for NAIN.
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| 07/04/08 |
Bruce Schuman |
Intimate video production in troubled areas |
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| Just wanted to respond to these thoughts from Judy Trautman --
I have had some similar thoughts -- envisioning the wide dispersion of simple "media access" -- probably made feasible by this kind of video kit.
What I was seeing -- was this potential spreading across troubled parts of the world -- like the Mideast. I have been impressed by peace-making groups that bring people together across borders -- like the women of "Beyond Words" -- who held a seminar here in Santa Barbara. They were Palestinian and Israeli, and they had bonded in profound and beautiful (and funny) ways, building the intimate personal channels of relationship that are the foundations of peace.
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| 03/02/09 |
jeremy taylor |
Intimate video production in troubled areas |
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| type in google dr. jeremy taylor d.min stole the name, rev jeremy taylor stole a God spoken protected christians ministry name and wrote and called ministry above copyrights
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