MinistryTech Online » Video http://ministrytechonline.com Using today's technology to spread the word Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:01:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Logos 4: Visual Filters – Marking imperative verbs in the New Testament http://ministrytechonline.com/?p=349 http://ministrytechonline.com/?p=349#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:39:26 +0000 jmichaelhite http://ministrytechonline.com/?p=349 I plan for this to be a series of tutorials on various features and tools in Logos 4. This first one is about how you can use Visual Filters to mark your English Bible based on a Greek verb form. Pretty cool stuff.

]]> http://ministrytechonline.com/?feed=rss2&p=349 2 Video evangelism – How YouTube has changed the game. http://ministrytechonline.com/?p=258 http://ministrytechonline.com/?p=258#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:25:25 +0000 jmichaelhite http://ministrytechonline.com/?p=258 Many of us have heard about videos posted on YouTube that have gone “viral.” The “viral” concept is that these ideas or items are shared from computer to computer just like a virus does. Some of these video that go viral reach millions of views in a relatively short period of time. While many of the videos that we create and post may not go viral or reach millions of views the reach of YouTube is worth looking at. As a note of caution: there are videos on YouTube that are inappropriate. But there are also some powerful messages that can be useful and encouraging.

One of the great advantages of YouTube is that with a free account you can post videos on the YouTube site and then link or embed those videos in your blog or website. You don’t have to pay for the bandwidth to serve them and other people can embed them or link to them and increase your reach. Again, you may not reach millions, but would you settle for message getting to thousands or tens of thousands?

Here is an example. A friend of mine just sent me a link to a video on YouTube titled, “The Bridge.” The body of his email was simple “Worth your time” and he pasted in the link. I watched the video and was struck by it. So I in turn posted it to my Facebook account profile. People watched it and commented on it when they watched. This small video hasn’t gone viral, but in the roughly 18 months since it was posted it has been viewed over 56,000 times! That is reach! I have embedded the video in this post for you to watch. I agree with my friend it is “worth your time” to watch. But after you what think about how this video has been shared, linked to, emailed and the thousands of people that have received the message.

What are we doing as the Lord’s church to use this tool to get our message out?

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