#iLoveEthiopia Wifi Evangelism Project

We have a crazy idea. What if we could find a way to really love people in Ethiopia? To spread the gospel to using a wifi evangelism tool called the BibleBox.

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Developing a Social Media Strategy « Social Media Software Platform for Nonprofit Fundraising and Advocacy -Tivix

Developing a Social Media Strategy « Social Media Software Platform for Nonprofit Fundraising and Advocacy -Tivix.

10 Steps To Top 10 Rankings In Google

Most webmasters go totally “gaga” for top 10 rankings in Google. And for good reason, Google is the most dominant search engine on the net and will deliver the largest amount of traffic.

More importantly, those same webmasters will also inform you, getting top 10 rankings in Google often means your site will prove profitable. Mainly because obtaining targeted traffic is usually your first obstacle in creating a viable online business. In other words, if you get top ten listings in Google for good searchable keywords, it is almost impossible not to earn money.

How To Proceed?

Media Notes

Proliferation of Social Media in A Billion-Person Country

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Expanding on last year’s list of three different types of players in India’s social media arena, Gaurav Mishra added three new categories. The advertisers have become more specialized, some concentrating on research and others on campaigns. The serious bloggers have turned into bloggers-turned-consultants that cater to corporations eager to delve into social media. Search engine optimization and public relations have also entered the game. The Indian market is ripe for more growth as the country expands economically and technologically.

More from Gauravonomics:

http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/six-types-of-social-media-agencies-in-india

Web is popular place to ‘open’ a church

Growing number of congregations are creating Internet offshoots

By Rachel Zoll
Church volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The worship band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service.

When the sermon is done, it’s time for communion, and the pastor guides attendees through the ritual. Later, worshippers exchange Facebook and e-mail addresses so they can stay in touch.

There is nothing remarkable about this encounter, which is replicated countless times each weekend at churches around the world. It’s all happening online.

The World Wide Web has become the hottest place to build a church. A growing number of congregations are creating Internet offshoots that go far beyond streaming weekly services.

The sites are fully interactive, with a dedicated Internet pastor, live chat in an online “lobby,” Bible study, one-on-one prayer through IM and communion. (Viewers use their own bread and wine or water from home.) On one site, viewers can click on a tab during worship to accept Christ as their savior. Flamingo Road Church, based in Cooper City, Fla., twice conducted long-distance baptisms using the Internet.

“The goal is to not let people at home feel like they’re watching what’s happening, but they’re part of it. They’re participating,” said Brian Vasil, Flamingo Road’s Internet pastor.

Read full story at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33575348/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

Young Asians

Synovate’s Young Asians annual tracking survey provides credible, relevant information on the media, purchasing and leisure habits of 8 to 24 year-old Asians in 12 countries.

Conducted in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, the survey goes into detail about media consumption and attitudes from childhood to early adulthood.

More time spent online

The survey reveals that the internet is the fastest growing medium for this demographic, with 35% of respondents claiming to have spent more time online in the past year. Looking specifically at MSN/Windows Live users who participated in the survey, over half (55%) claimed to have spent more time online.

Young Asians are online for an average of 2.7 hours each day, which accounts for 28% of their total daily media consumption. Internet users aged 15-24 spend the most time online (6.3 hours a day) while MSN/Windows Live users spend even more time online (7.1 hours).

Growth in internet usage by young Asians appears to have been at the expense of TV, with 30% of respondents saying they now watched less TV.

Staying in touch

Young people love using the internet to communicate with friends. Across the 12 countries surveyed, 2.2 hours were spent on instant messaging each day, followed by social networking activities (1.2 hours) and then email (0.9 hours).

MSN/Windows Live users spend even more time each day communicating online: 3 hours on instant messaging; 1.5 hours on social networking activities and 1.2 hours on email.

Emailing is the top online activity for young Asians who are MSN/Windows Live users, with 81% of them accessing email in the past 30 days. Seventy-five per cent had listened to music online during that period and 70% had downloaded. Using search engines was the fourth most popular activity (67%), followed by instant messaging (66%).

Being online is essential

The internet is an essential medium for young Asians, more popular than all other media. The web’s popularity is even higher among MSN/Windows Live users.

Forrester: Social Web To Evolve Due To Portable IDs

Transforming the world of online media and marketing, technologies that enable a portable identity will soon allow consumers to bring their identities with them across the Web, according to a deep-dive study on the future of social media from Forrester Research.

What’s more, IDs are just the beginning of this transformation, in which the Web will evolve step-by-step from separate social sites into a shared social experience, according to the report’s key author, Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang.

“Consumers will rely on their peers as they make online decisions, whether or not brands choose to participate,” Owyang explains in the report. “Socially connected consumers will strengthen communities and shift power away from brands and CRM systems … eventually this will result in empowered communities defining the next generation of products.”

Elements of Good Online Content

Elements of Good Online Content

* Be Brief – No matter how short the video or blog piece or podcast is, make it shorter. No matter how many pictures you took, choose only the few that make your point.
* Make it Portable – If you’re going to bother making media, make it easy for people to share it, use it, shift it around. Think embeds in YouTube. Think RSS and email delivery, etc.
* Make it Useful – No one wants to read about your product. They want to read something that empowers them. That’s why books sell. We read them to improve ourselves. We buy cars to feel better or to move our families around.
* Make it Personal – Repurposing your TV commercial for YouTube isn’t enough. That’s okay to do, as well, but why stop there? Video is free and cheap. So is blog content. So are photos. Do something memorable by making stories about your customers, your employees, whoever matters.
* Make it Fresh – Wow, there is a lot of redundant content out there. I’m going to say it before you do: some of mine is redundant. One reason you don’t often ding me for that is because I try to find a fresh angle. It doesn’t always work. But if you don’t try…
* Make it Relate to Your Business – Let’s not be too noble here. If you’re looking to sell blenders, You can’t do better than BlendTec. If you’re looking to sell computers, you might be the next Digital Nomads. It doesn’t have to be pure and noble. Just be clear when you’re helping versus when you’re selling.

Evangelism and Follow-up: Media Contacts and Church Planting

Evangelism and Follow-up: Media Contacts and Church Planting

One of the goals of any outreach is to bring a respondent to a point of decision and to “group” them into a fellowship. Much discussion has taken place and many people refer to the Engle Scale or the Gray Matrix as a way of representing the journey from no knowledge of God through to spiritual maturity as a Christian. Our goal, of course, is to use media to lead people to Christ and hopefully to small groups.

The answer is that effective broad seed sowing provides multiple new contacts within a target people group with whom our personnel would never hear of or reach otherwise. Using the RDS (Relationship Development System) system one can touch more peoples’ lives utilizing mass media. We can have a reasonably simple response mechanism for collecting important data and then replying back – (texting) those, who show interest in the message. From this, we often have an opportunity to later meet people face to face, who have already shown proof of having moved up the Engle Scale a few steps by their requesting more information. This media “connection” results in a much more positive first-time meeting, where the first few, but difficult barriers to sharing, are lessened or removed. Also the person is often in a much more receptive mood to the idea of a investing in a learning relationship with the follow up person.

A simple follow up by text message will sometimes lead to that first important personal contact. This initial contact also sometimes opens a window into a family group or peer group situation (as with students—“hey, if you have some friends who might be interested, invite them to join us at the coffee shot!”) for our personnel

Broad seed sowing and collecting data, and texting followup has a real potential to speed up the process of finding people who are ready to hear and believe. Thus, facilitating the whole process of building new relationships, grouping them into care and study groups, and so on. Of course, the time span for this all to happen depends greatly on the receptivity or barriers to Christianity/God’s message. But in most, if not many cases, one can expect that an effective delivery of either social-moral or other pre-evangelism entertainment; or, carefully constructed “better quality of life”, truths for living, answering societies problems, etc – will put our personnel or nationals much closer to many more people resulting in more opportunities to “tell what God has done in my life—and what he can do in yours!”

One current example is the follow up system in place and working in Indonesia where our personnel follow up on respondents to a short-wave radio broadcast. These broadcasts are locally produced in the common language and present a variety of bridges to the Gospel using programming around simple biblical truths and answers to common problems in that social/religious setting.

The intention of this form of mass media is to present God’s truth packaged appropriately to as many people as possible – as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. To do this, we have to know what are the existing conduits of communication already in place in the local media setting. Then to “patch” into that popular or acceptable genre of media with programming or content that “fits” and will be attractive and entertaining; or of such significant real benefit to the listener, that they will want more and want to know more about this source of this content.

This “conduit” would vary and could be a ‘broadcast’ – a radio broadcast, a website or a social networking site – like Twitter; or even a recorded talk given by an individual on a relevant topic. But, whatever the original medium and message is or how it is packaged, there has to be a response opportunity that is obvious and easy to use. Sometimes a simple response such as ‘please send me a booklet’ or ‘please, tell me more,’ is enough to start that person down the road to learning truth and to trusting and wanting to connect with the people who are at the source of that truth. Even these two simple requests can be multiplied over and over again form this “one-to-many” communication.

The idea is to facilitate the process whereby our personnel can then move from the “one-to-many” – mass media presentation to one-to-one communication involving email or SMS or other forms of communication. This develops into a dialogue between two people. The aim that many have is that this communication results in the person deciding to follow the Messiah. What then happens is that people desire that the individual followers of the Messiah gather together in groups for fellowship etc. Getting from the individual to the group is often very difficult and in some cultures no community of followers of the Way ever seems to develop.

How it Works:
A person hears or sees and evangelistic message. He/she sends in a text message to that local in-country number (gateway module). The gateway sends the SMS message over the Internet to the server. The message is directed to the client folder on the server. The helper-evangelist can be anywhere in the world and log onto the RDS system over then Internet and respond. The reply message to the person goes from the very same number as he/she originally sent in the request. A client could have up to 3 unique numbers porting through one gateway system.

Points to consider:

1. How to Make Contact: The outreach teams pass out 50,000 DVDs of THE HOPE video (true example project in formative stages in Thailand). In each packet and on the DVD is contact information like SMS number, email, box number. Because we want to capture more information we offer them a free gift (scripture portion, T-shirt, etc). Now we have their address!
2. How to build relationships: Now we assign say each 10 respondents to one “helper-evangelist” and they start asking questions, making friends, etc. Maybe this becomes something that can be moved to email and the helper could offer to send items that they have talked about. Remember, the respondent has shown intentionality by sending that SMS and corresponding with the “helper”.
3. How to get them to a point of decision: This is always an issue but this often takes a longer relationship to get to that point. This, of course, depends on the work of the Holy Spirit, other witness experiences, knowledge of God, etc.
4. How to group them. At some point in time you could invite them (if they were local) to a coffee shop or student center, etc for a felt need seminar on, say time management or marriage. Or, to learn English or to, depending on where they are in the process, study the Bible. From there, perhaps they could be grouped.

The Relationship Development System is an integrated follow-up computer system that manages the contacts generated by media outreach such as radio, Internet or literature distribution. The system manages the relationships that develop between a contact and helper-evangelist (one to one) as they correspond via SMS, email, mail and various web interfaces.

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The impact of broadband on developing country GDP

This year, a World Bank report reveals the impact of broadband on growth in 120 countries from 1980 to 2006. Its analysis revealed that each 10 percentage points of broadband penetration results in 1.21% increase in per capita GDP growth in developed countries, and 1.38% increase in developing countries. Consider the example of broadband deployment in China. Another report by Professor Leonard Waverman suggests the release of new spectrum for mobile broadband services in 2009 will ultimately add the equivalent of $211 billion to China’s GDP and create 300,000 jobs.

….. Thailand’s transition to broadband may well evolve quickly, affordably and in a way that might uplift the lives of millions of low income citizens.