An amazing thing happened yesterday. I was preparing for my trip to Haiti (I’m leaving today) and as I was packing I was putting all my tech gear together – audio recorder, video camera, microphones, camera – and it hit me: I don’t HAVE to pack all this equipment! Every piece of tech equipment I was packing is actually in my iPhone 4. Did I really HAVE to take all this other equipment? So, I checked and re-checked the quality of each app, and I e-mailed test videos, and I uploaded audio and I did all the necessary testing and decided to use my iPhone for everything! That was a bit scary. Can I really capture everything I need – at an acceptable quality – to communicate to radio and web audiences my experiences on this trip? I’m going to try! So, every post, every picture, every video, every audio bite from my trip will be captured on my iPhone 4. Let’s see how this goes. Today’s technology amazes me still.
P.S. Just top be sure I packed all that other equipment too…just in case :)
This past weekend my wife and I were in Mexico City, where I was photographing a wedding for some friends of ours that we met during a missions trip a couple of years ago.
On our way home we spent a couple of hours in the Mexico City International Airport. In the middle of one of the largest cities in the world, filled with both poverty and wealth, sits one of the busiest airports on Earth.
To my surprise, in of one of the biggest and most impoverished cities in the world I discovered beautiful architecture in the ceiling of an airport. I was impressed by the design and imagination that was used in the creation of what in most buildings is a boring necessity of infrastructure. With 238 days a year of clear skys the Mexico City International Airport is filled with light by the 1000’s of skylights that hang above the heads of weary passengers headed to their temporary or permanent destinations. We find beauty where we least expect it and are often inspired by things that have no connection to our passions or work.
Are you looking for inspiration in the every day? Are you allowing God to show you his magnificence in the inanimate?
Jordan Chesbrough – Creative Director | Web & Design
We’re back from Chicago! It was a pleasure seeing so many of you at the AGRM Conference!
One of the joys of this year’s conference for us was the ability to capture and share the video stories of how God has overwhelmed so many Missions with His provision. These videos were shared during each General Session and if you want to see them again, or if you weren’t able to make it to Chicago, (or if you just want to be encouraged) you can watch them below! read more
Radio stations have always been very adaptable – because radio has had to be. When TV came along many said that radio would fade away. It didn’t. When the internet started streaming music many thought traditional radio stations would go out of business. They haven’t. Why is radio going to survive in this ever changing world of new technology? Because in the future it’s not going to look, feel, or sound like it has in the past…but neither is any other media outlet.
There really is no such thing as a “radio station” anymore. There’s no such thing as a “TV station” anymore. There’s no such thing as a “newspaper” anymore. And, in reality, there’s no such thing as a “website” anymore. Today all forms of mass communcations are morphing into something referred to as a “Media Center.” Radio stations have websites. Newspapers point you to videos on their website. TV stations offer to text you news headlines. It’s all becoming wonderfully interconnected.
So what is a fundraisier to do? How do you utilize “Media Centers” most effectively? The first step is to acknowledge the new reality.
Our hope for this blog is it that would be a resource for Ministries and Non-profits who are looking to use the internet as a tool for marketing and creating community with your donors and volunteers.
If you have ever typed a web/marketing question into google then you know that there are a lot of resources out there. But you also have probably discovered that it can be difficult to know where to start and who to trust. Lets be honest, we often seek out answers on the web but only end up more confused then when we started. There aren’t a lot of experts who are speaking to an audience who are just trying to figure out where to begin.
We want to bridge the gap between ministry and marketing. We hope to do that here through tips, tutorials and suggestions that are directed to the ministry developers who have been given the task of making the web work for their organization.
I thought the best way to get started was to offer you a crash course in the state of the world we live and its relationship to the web.
An amazing thing happened yesterday. I was preparing for my trip to Haiti (I’m leaving today) and as I was packing I was putting all my tech gear together – audio recorder, video camera, microphones, camera – and it hit me: I don’t HAVE to pack all this equipment! Every piece of tech equipment I was packing is actually in my iPhone 4. Did I really HAVE to take all this other equipment? So, I checked and re-checked the quality of each app, and I e-mailed test videos, and I uploaded audio and I did all the necessary testing and decided to use my iPhone for everything! That was a bit scary. Can I really capture everything I need – at an acceptable quality – to communicate to radio and web audiences my experiences on this trip? I’m going to try! So, every post, every picture, every video, every audio bite from my trip will be captured on my iPhone 4. Let’s see how this goes. Today’s technology amazes me still.
