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next gen Southeast Asian Leaders
At SEALS: Southeast Asian Leadership Summit 2010 in San Jose, a conference of 140+ next generation Southeast Asian ministry leaders. Watch the main sessions as they’re being live-streamed. The organizer’s hospitality has been amazing — so encouraged to see the enthusiasm and heart of young leaders eager for God’s glory and caring for all peoples. Here’s a snapshot of who’s here:
I’ll be facilitating a workshop about social media, sort of a different angle than most of the other workshops that are addressing specific ministry issues. So my workshop, titled “Wielding online tools for connecting and collaborating,” is more about online tools & web apps and how they can be used for ministry. My slides are online [created entirely using Google Docs]. Based on discussions that flow from the 2 sessions of the same workshop, I’ll update this post with more links & references.
[updated] Links to Resources mentioned in workshop:
- video: social media revolution
- Top 100 church blogs via churchrelevance.com
- How to get a domained website = domain name (e.g. Godaddy or Name.com) + web hosting (e.g. dreamhost.com or bluehost.com) + content management system (CMS; e.g. WordPress, Joomla, Drupal)
- free live-streaming web apps: ustream.tv & livestream.com
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- CD’s music : myspace.com/cuzcad + twitter @heyitscd + youtube.com/cd517
- Kai’s food videos at youtube.com/ltkman
- And, we launched The Khmer Palate in class! On twitter @thekhmerpalate and blog thekhmerpalate.wordpress.com and youtube.com/missnget
win Bible Navigator on XBOX
It’s the weekend and that means fun, especially for those of you who have an Xbox for indoor use and don’t have the balmy Southern California weather to go outdoors. (confession: I don’t have an Xbox, though I do have a Wii and a Mii, and I’m out of town this weekend to Nashville for NRB REACH — follow @djchuang247 for my live tweets.)
For those of you with an Xbox, you can win a free copy of the Bible Navigator X right here! 
How to win: add a comment and describe one creative way you would use the Bible Navigator X. Winner will be selected by random drawing from the commenters. Comment must be submitted before Sunday February 28th 11:59pm Central, when the weekend ends. One entry per person. Multiple comments okay, but only one contest entry counts per commenter.
Bible Navigator X: HCSB is the first app on the XBOX 360 that allows the user to read the entire Bible from their 360. All the essential Bible functions are there: easy navigation, bookmarks, search, concordance, and themess. HCSB = Holman Christian Standard Bible translation of the Bible; press release; watch video intro:
Prize is courtesy of Aaron Linne (a self-described video game aficionado with an entire room of his home dedicated to gaming.[1])
Top articles shared by Christians
A new web app called Zoecity.com launched last week that automatically lists the top articles viewed and shared by Christians (technically, re-launched.) Zoecity’s self-description is: “We track hundreds of Christian websites for the latest content.” Are you as curious as me what those 100s of Christian websites are?
I got to interview Colin Wong, the CEO of Zoecity today. Watch the video interview below [powered by wetoku; pardon the echo]:
My “aha” moment during the interview was this: as Zoecity.com bubbles-up the most popular content, it may or may not be the most important, but I think it does indicate what is most influential, or at the very least, what’s been read and/or shared by the most people. By the way, in the interview, Colin mentioned 2 articles, “Ouija board a controversial toy for tots” and “Tebow Super Bowl Ad Leads Viewers to ‘God Story’“.
You’ll notice in the right sidebar here at djchuang.com towards the bottom is a Zoecity widget, which shows the top 10 daily articles. And looking over at the Zoecity front page, there is a comment link under each item. Almost all of them have “0 Comments” right now. (Maybe that’ll change?)
How do you think knowing what’s the most popular today, this week, and this month, would be helpful to you?
live coverage from Verge Conference in Austin
2,000+ church leaders will converge in Austin this week at the sold-out VERGE missional church conference. Neil Cole describes Verge as “first of its kind in the missional church field.”
I’ll be there with the Verge Social Media Team, providing live coverage via various social media channels, and the team members’ websites + blogs + networks will host on-going conversations in a distributed fashion after the event.
The Verge team blog will link to all the latest — including announcement of the live video feed of main sessions. Live twitter tweets on twubs (below) + use official hashtag #verge10 + follow @djchuang247 for my live tweets.
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using Google Apps without moving email server
There are 2 other ways to use Google Apps without having to move your email server. I think. I’ll use my domain name (djchuang.com) as the example:
(1) First, setup Google Apps with the domain name (djchuang.com), for a Google Apps Standard Edition. After verifying domain ownership, then you’ll be able to login to the Google Apps Control Panel. Under Dashboard > Service settings, you can click on the “Email” link, and click on “Disable service”.[cf]
Then, each person on the domain would register for a Google Apps username, at a URL like https://www.google.com/a/djchuang.com/ . And then, these Google Apps would be associated with djchuang.com, e.g.
- Calendar, visit: http://calendar.google.com/a/djchuang.com
- Docs, visit: http://docs.google.com/a/djchuang.com
(2) The other way is to create a new Google Account with an “@djchuang.com” email address. On the page https://www.google.com/accounts/ , click on “Create an account now” on the right sidebar at bottom.
I’m not sure what the difference is between (1) and (2) above, since I can’t figure it out from the online help at Google Apps. Either of the options above will enable us to use Google Apps like calendar and docs, without affecting the current email setup at all.
Can anyone explain what the difference is between the two above ways for using Google Apps with a domain and without having to interrupt the domained email server? And, would the #1 setup above affect some of the email notifications that Google Apps sends out for doc sharing or calendar invites?
Aside: here’s 3 links to blog posts that give step-by-step instructions for hosting your email and using Google Apps with your domain: hanselman.com, smarterware.org, and htmlcenter.com — in other words, this is the normal way to use Google Apps.